Has this eBike kit blown? HELP

[josaphine30]

I've set up the eBike kit and battery in my bike today, when I connected the the wires there was a popping noise and the kit isn't working at all.

 

[ian.mich]

What's the kit and battery and how do you have it wired? pics may help.
when plugging a battery into a controller there is almost always a spark or pop unless using a precharge resistor.
to diagnose this properly you need a Lyen tester and a good multimeter.

 

[ambroseliao]

I noticed that e-bikekit just posted troubleshooting videos on Youtube...

Part 1:
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Part 2:
[youtube]h_-i7GHwess[/youtube]

The popping is normal if you're plugging in the controller. It's the in-rush current going to the capacitors in the controller.

 

[ian.mich]

oh wow those connectors look like a nightmare to test anything

 

[el_walto]

A bit of a pop and a spark is normal. Likely throttle, power switch, or ebrake wires are connected wrong.

 

[josaphine30]

Hi, the kit is working fine, it was turned off, silly me. I didn't know what the power switch was because it had a picture of a light and a horn button.

 

[mlt34]

Hi, the kit is working fine, it was turned off, silly me. I didn't know what the power switch was because it had a picture of a light and a horn button.

Yea I wish they just wouldn't put pictures on those buttons at all because we use them for so many different things. My 'on' switch is a repurposed light button, and I like to use the horn button as a regen enabler sometimes so that I don't always have to use regen everytime I pull the brake handles (I don't like to regen all the way down a hill if I'm going super fast so I don't stress my bms too much from the charge current, situations like that)