Long time, first time.
I recently bought this bike from REI on mega sale hoping to use it to commute to my work, which is up a massive hill. I have another BBS02 conversion I used, but shit keeps falling apart on that bike, and I am now car free, so I wanted a backup bike, in case I don't have time or the parts to fix issues that may arise on my primary bike.
I took this new bike for a test ride up my big hill, and it barely got me there. Of course, this is a class 1 bike, and the controller is limiting the power, but I didn't realize how bad that would be.
When I opened the user manual for this bike, I realized this has the RM G060.750.D Bafang rear hub motor with a DP C11.CAN display. This motor should be (as per the Grin simulator) plenty strong to get me up my hill using most of their controller options. So I figured, I just need a better controller (or I need to re-program the one I have). Here is where I am stuck : firstly, I can't get the damn controller out of the bike frame. The wiring is internally routed through the frame, but there is this strange metal plate on the side of the controller, which makes it really hard to get the damn thing out (image attached).
I can however access the cables to the connector. So, I may be able to re-program it? I see the connector model is CR x20s.250.fc 3.0 and the software version is CRS104c4812h103085.0 . In one section of the manual, I see the current limit on the controller is 12A, but I am not sure if this is applicable to what the controller is actually doing on my ride.
So-- what would the wise folks of ES recommend I do? If I could somehow force that controller out of its box and replace it with something better, I think that would solve all my issues, but not sure if that is possible.
Thanks!
I recently bought this bike from REI on mega sale hoping to use it to commute to my work, which is up a massive hill. I have another BBS02 conversion I used, but shit keeps falling apart on that bike, and I am now car free, so I wanted a backup bike, in case I don't have time or the parts to fix issues that may arise on my primary bike.
I took this new bike for a test ride up my big hill, and it barely got me there. Of course, this is a class 1 bike, and the controller is limiting the power, but I didn't realize how bad that would be.
When I opened the user manual for this bike, I realized this has the RM G060.750.D Bafang rear hub motor with a DP C11.CAN display. This motor should be (as per the Grin simulator) plenty strong to get me up my hill using most of their controller options. So I figured, I just need a better controller (or I need to re-program the one I have). Here is where I am stuck : firstly, I can't get the damn controller out of the bike frame. The wiring is internally routed through the frame, but there is this strange metal plate on the side of the controller, which makes it really hard to get the damn thing out (image attached).
I can however access the cables to the connector. So, I may be able to re-program it? I see the connector model is CR x20s.250.fc 3.0 and the software version is CRS104c4812h103085.0 . In one section of the manual, I see the current limit on the controller is 12A, but I am not sure if this is applicable to what the controller is actually doing on my ride.
So-- what would the wise folks of ES recommend I do? If I could somehow force that controller out of its box and replace it with something better, I think that would solve all my issues, but not sure if that is possible.
Thanks!