I am attempting to hack this ebike motor to bypass all the proprietary stuff and what I'm seeing so far is encouraging
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I did it!! I hacked the e-bike motor!
It's only running off of 36 volts here rather than the 48 it's designed for because i don't have a generic 48v controller, so it's going slower than it should, but it works.
Now that I know this is possible, I will go ahead and order a 48 volt controller and a 48v BMS for rebuilding the battery pack
In situ hacking
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I did it!! I hacked the e-bike motor!
It's only running off of 36 volts here rather than the 48 it's designed for because i don't have a generic 48v controller, so it's going slower than it should, but it works.
Now that I know this is possible, I will go ahead and order a 48 volt controller and a 48v BMS for rebuilding the battery pack
@MLE_online That's cool!
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In situ hacking
Even if this bike had worked, I probably would have done this anyway because this bike was designed to be controlled with an app on your phone and I'm not about having to use apps to use other things.
I am freeing this bike from the prison of surveillance capitalism
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Even if this bike had worked, I probably would have done this anyway because this bike was designed to be controlled with an app on your phone and I'm not about having to use apps to use other things.
I am freeing this bike from the prison of surveillance capitalism
@MLE_online excellent work!
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Even if this bike had worked, I probably would have done this anyway because this bike was designed to be controlled with an app on your phone and I'm not about having to use apps to use other things.
I am freeing this bike from the prison of surveillance capitalism
@MLE_online I love this.
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Even if this bike had worked, I probably would have done this anyway because this bike was designed to be controlled with an app on your phone and I'm not about having to use apps to use other things.
I am freeing this bike from the prison of surveillance capitalism
@MLE_online Way to go, this is so cool. Thank you for posting this series. I'm excited to see how the battery rebuild goes with the new BMS.
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Even if this bike had worked, I probably would have done this anyway because this bike was designed to be controlled with an app on your phone and I'm not about having to use apps to use other things.
I am freeing this bike from the prison of surveillance capitalism
@MLE_online liberator of orphaned motors
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Even if this bike had worked, I probably would have done this anyway because this bike was designed to be controlled with an app on your phone and I'm not about having to use apps to use other things.
I am freeing this bike from the prison of surveillance capitalism
This is pretty great. Are you gonna write up your method? Or is it peculiar to the one design?
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Even if this bike had worked, I probably would have done this anyway because this bike was designed to be controlled with an app on your phone and I'm not about having to use apps to use other things.
I am freeing this bike from the prison of surveillance capitalism
EMILY 2028
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Even if this bike had worked, I probably would have done this anyway because this bike was designed to be controlled with an app on your phone and I'm not about having to use apps to use other things.
I am freeing this bike from the prison of surveillance capitalism
@MLE_online fuck yeah
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Even if this bike had worked, I probably would have done this anyway because this bike was designed to be controlled with an app on your phone and I'm not about having to use apps to use other things.
I am freeing this bike from the prison of surveillance capitalism
@MLE_online doing god’s work
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This is pretty great. Are you gonna write up your method? Or is it peculiar to the one design?
@tomjennings I think it would vary from design to design, but there are some general principles. This one actually turned out to be much simpler than I was expecting. It was just a matter of finding the hall effect sensor wires and the phase wires and getting them connected to the controller correctly.
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Even if this bike had worked, I probably would have done this anyway because this bike was designed to be controlled with an app on your phone and I'm not about having to use apps to use other things.
I am freeing this bike from the prison of surveillance capitalism
I need to buy parts from AliExpress. The scotus ruling on tariffs came just in time
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I need to buy parts from AliExpress. The scotus ruling on tariffs came just in time
@MLE_online it doesn’t do anything about de minimis or postage prices. I hope at least they’ll implement the lower tariff quickly.
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I need to buy parts from AliExpress. The scotus ruling on tariffs came just in time
@MLE_online I've been holding off on designing/ordering PCBs for the same reason.
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@kilroy_was_here @MLE_online That stuff is great and fun, provided that your design isn't too complicated. I grew up in the paint-on resist / resist pen / rub-on dry transfer methods of PCB generation. These days, I'll sit at my PC with a cup of coffee.
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Promising signals from the hall effect sensor wires
Nice scope there, lady.
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I am attempting to hack this ebike motor to bypass all the proprietary stuff and what I'm seeing so far is encouraging
How did you acquire the bike? Is there a “usual route” for these rapidly expiring companies’ products?
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In situ hacking
@MLE_online Love it, you did a great job
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@tomjennings I think it would vary from design to design, but there are some general principles. This one actually turned out to be much simpler than I was expecting. It was just a matter of finding the hall effect sensor wires and the phase wires and getting them connected to the controller correctly.
@MLE_online @tomjennings if you can cope with fairly 'lumpy' running at low speed you don't even need to figure the halls out, just get a sensorless controller and try the phase wires in different configurations until it works.
