Search results

This is a 2 year old thread.

Does your bike not have any LEDs or anything that show the percentage of charge while charging? The last few bikes I've had have all had some way of seeing the rough charge percentage by way of LEDs or some kind of bar meter where each block represents a certain amount of charge.

Oh gotcha, that's the standard Kiox 300 screen that came with the bike.

You were talking about the ebike battery no?

Mine shows the percentage of charge while charging. If yours does not then as others have said just check the percentage before and after a certain amount of charge to see how much it's gone up in that given time and use that for calculating how long to charge it for when starting at any given...

Yeah exactly, bad idea all round imo.

On a car is one thing because the room is there but scaling everything down to fit on the end of one fork leg on a bike and still be able to produce stopping power is a massive challenge so I doubt anyone would even bother trying to make it happen because the market for it just wouldn't be there...

Pretty sure wireless brakes won't be a thing, you'd need a massive motor to replicate the forces that hydraulics produce. Hydraulics are used on cars, bikes, trucks and all manor of construction equipment because it just can't be replicated with anything else.

That's just poor design with inadequate testing. Internal routing is fine of done properly.

I'm not sure if enough people realise you shouldn't leave them at full charge for it to become a mainstream issue that needs solving.

Yeah that would bother me tbh. I've heard of people knocking up DIY solutions to discharging batteries with fans and bulbs and things, be nice if there was an official plug and play device that did it but even better if the energy could be used for something useful like light or heat.

This thread got me thinking, if you'd charged your battery up to 100% anticipating a ride which ended up get cancelled and for whatever reason you didn't have time or couldn't ride the bike to drain it down to a storage charge like the weather was really bad or you were going on holiday or...

As you can see from this thread I think most people are trying to figure out what's actually best for batteries and inevitably there will be all sorts of different opinions floating about. General rules for me are: Give it at least few hours to cool down after a ride before charging it again...

If I knew i If I knew I was riding early the next day I'd just leave it a couple of hours after day ones ride (to let the battery cool down fully) then charge it to 100% ready for the next morning. If day twos riding is later on in the day I'd personally leave it a couple of hours after day...

https://amzn.eu/d/dQgQdwg That's the one I have, it works perfectly and seems to be well made but any simple timer that has a countdown mode will work. It was £13 something or other when I bought it a while back.

The £14 timer I have is extremely easy to use and means you are still using the original charger (keeping whatever methodology it uses to charge the battery). And I have perfect control over exactly how much charge I want to add and it shuts off automatically. This is literally all I have to...

How to safely charge the battery to 100% without risk of overcharging/overheating + How to charge the battery to a required percentage (ie: 60% for storage purposes) Apologies if this has already been covered in this thread and/or is already common knowledge. I'm using this method along with my...

Thanks 👍🏻

Just £28 for both on Amazon UK so it's a no brainer. I'll probably also get a big lipo bag to keep/charge the battery in over the winter as I usually keep it in the house as the garage gets really cold.

For the garage where the bike lives: And some concentrate: