Yeah, so I parked my bike outside, where I kept it before installing a motor, with its cyclone 500w motor attached. It rained/hailed/snowed overnight sunday night
The bike was under a tarp, but the tarp leaked...
Monday morning, I rode the bike ~11 miles and then while riding up a hill, the motor suddenly cut out. I tried flipping the power switch a couple times and didn't get it to work (at least not for more than a fraction of a second) and then after a half a mile or so I got the motor to work for maybe half a second. I rode to work under 100% pedal power. Come time to go home, the motor didn't work right (I could still get the throttle LEDs to intermittently register full voltage, but nothing usable) so I rode the bike home without electric assist. Carried the bike up the stairs into the living room, and pulled the motor off its mounting bracket. Figured out how to pull the reduction gear off- nothing interesting. Figured out how to pull the faceplate that goes next to the reduction gear. At this point, a small handful's worth of water dribbles out of the inside of the motor/controller housing.
According to the volt meter the battery is fine, but something is clearly not right with the controller. Based on how I was getting intermittent power to light up the voltage-sensor LEDs on the throttle, I'm thinking that water sloshing around inside the motor was possibly connecting an otherwise broken circuit, and maybe if I just figured out the right place to make an electrical connection I might be back in business.
Unfortunately the faceplate of the motor housing (to which its controller electronics are attached) will not swing open to allow me a good look, poke my multimeter leads around, etc, in an attempt to fix it. Wires keep it from opening past about a half inch.
I bought from cyclone taiwan, and I'm assuming there's not a lot of good user support available from them.
I don't have a ton of money to replace the thing if I can instead figure out how to repair. I also prefer (though I can be somewhat flexible) to be able to get it back up and running very soon because I'm driving to work (meaning wasting money on car insurance and gas) while I don't have an e-bike to ride.
If I really have to, I think I'll bite the bullet and buy another identical kit and try a lot harder to protect it from water.
Any advice on how to get the motor's output cog (pre reduction) removed, which would help me get the motor open, or any other ideas on getting the motor open without cutting a bunch of wires (making it hard to ever get working again)?
Any thoughts on fixing the problem if I come up with a suitable way to open and re-close the motor housing?
The bike was under a tarp, but the tarp leaked...
Monday morning, I rode the bike ~11 miles and then while riding up a hill, the motor suddenly cut out. I tried flipping the power switch a couple times and didn't get it to work (at least not for more than a fraction of a second) and then after a half a mile or so I got the motor to work for maybe half a second. I rode to work under 100% pedal power. Come time to go home, the motor didn't work right (I could still get the throttle LEDs to intermittently register full voltage, but nothing usable) so I rode the bike home without electric assist. Carried the bike up the stairs into the living room, and pulled the motor off its mounting bracket. Figured out how to pull the reduction gear off- nothing interesting. Figured out how to pull the faceplate that goes next to the reduction gear. At this point, a small handful's worth of water dribbles out of the inside of the motor/controller housing.
According to the volt meter the battery is fine, but something is clearly not right with the controller. Based on how I was getting intermittent power to light up the voltage-sensor LEDs on the throttle, I'm thinking that water sloshing around inside the motor was possibly connecting an otherwise broken circuit, and maybe if I just figured out the right place to make an electrical connection I might be back in business.
Unfortunately the faceplate of the motor housing (to which its controller electronics are attached) will not swing open to allow me a good look, poke my multimeter leads around, etc, in an attempt to fix it. Wires keep it from opening past about a half inch.
I bought from cyclone taiwan, and I'm assuming there's not a lot of good user support available from them.
I don't have a ton of money to replace the thing if I can instead figure out how to repair. I also prefer (though I can be somewhat flexible) to be able to get it back up and running very soon because I'm driving to work (meaning wasting money on car insurance and gas) while I don't have an e-bike to ride.
If I really have to, I think I'll bite the bullet and buy another identical kit and try a lot harder to protect it from water.
Any advice on how to get the motor's output cog (pre reduction) removed, which would help me get the motor open, or any other ideas on getting the motor open without cutting a bunch of wires (making it hard to ever get working again)?
Any thoughts on fixing the problem if I come up with a suitable way to open and re-close the motor housing?