Being a 65 year old and in good nick for my age I bought 2 x tsdz2 500w mated with Samsung 30a 15ah batteries in August 2018. The other for my wife also from Ali Express from Ebird for vld5 displays with all the bits including throttle (which we have not used) ebrakes front light with split line to lights from speed sensor.
This torque sensing unit is so worth it.
Now I am totally indebted to this tsdz2 thread and your awesome updates and guidance which enabled me to nut out what we needed.
I found and set speed to 45k on my large framed 2016 Giant Hybrid roam that worked out really well.
As others on forum I could not keep derailleur cable running under bottom bracket.
Fitted a cable along top bar and down to a new unit.
Now my chainline is pretty wild but even though I kept my 36 and 48tooth by buying the spider to fit from ebird it workes fine without problem.
They threw in a free spare blue cog for me with the 2 kits.
It's handy having a 36 for those steep hills. Most of the time I have no need to switch over.
As I use my bike for commuting, trails etc I retain my original rear cluster 11-36t 10 speed. I run with 38c Schwalbes and just love this setup. It's great to take away on the caravan to.
I usually ride with assist 2 and hang easily between 35 to 39ks on the flat and if the weather here in sunny queensland Australia is good I do a 30k run early most mornings. Motor is barely warm with this on setting 2with me having a workout.
its much easier to hold around 40ks on setting 3 but It's not really worth sitting on level 4 or 5 just to pull 45k because the wind resistance really hits and for a long stint motor gets pretty warm so I keep this to short bursts and help save my blue cog.
Have done 700k so far.
Question:
As I have 5 assist settings would each level be 100w increments?
My gauge on vlcd5 is really inaccurate.
Shows full and when the icons drop only 1 down it takes 3.5 hours to charge back to 100% with 2amp charger. So 3.5 × 2 = 7ah used from my max of 15.
So I am assuming using 2=200w usage if using continuously.
I found that when waiting in a low gear to take off I noticed that my foot actuated the motor so I pulled the supplied ebrake sensors apart and sucessfully fitted them to my hydraulic brakes so its not an issue now.
Wife runs setting 3 most of the time on her 26" and loves the intuitive feedback feel.
She wants to go riding now! Yea!
