Looking for a U.K. agent/supplier of Darfon Batteries.

[gab344]

Hi all,
As above, specifically wanting the Darfon gen 2 800Wh (E4C0L) model. I googled a couple of German web shops that had this battery listed but neither were willing to ship the the United Kingdom. Can anyone with point me in the right direction?
Thanks!

 

[Mabman]

My go to battery supplier is [email protected] forward him a mail including this info and see if he can help. Quick service and good prices if he can.

 

[gab344]

Many thanks. I'll send him an email.

 

[gab344]

Got in touch with Herbert, very helpful guy. Did his best, but wasn't able to supply me with a new Battery.
He was looking in to the possibility of his company building me a shimano gen2 compatible unit, but ultimately was unable to help me unless I could supply him with a battery case, presumably from a dead unit.

Darfon themselves wont reply to any of my emails asking for contact details for U.K. dealer I can buy from, presumably because I'm not trade.

Probably have to get one from ARI cycles (supplier of bike) directly. Which will be a pain as I'm in the U.K and they are in the U.S.

 

[Jackware]

Maybe @Neeko DeVinchi can help as he's used Darfon batteries in some of his build projects?

 

[Neeko DeVinchi]

Just responded to his PM @Jackware .
I should be able to assist.

For everyone else who's in the UK, essentially you need to go through Shimano/Madison. However, be advised that Madison don't catalogue the Darfon batteries under the same reference as Darfon.
E.g. the E4C0C/E4C0G etc batteries are under a different reference number with Madison. In the end, I had to play the game if detective. And find other ebikes which used the required batteries as a reference point.
Santa Cruz, Pivot, Ari (formally Fezzari & Ridgeback were some examples which came in handy.

 

[gab344]

I drew a bit of a blank here.

I suspect it was because I made it difficult for myself wanting the largest Gen 2 battery I could get.

In the end Fezzari got back to me, and said they had just got stock of a 835Wh unit that was compatible. So I'll go with that.