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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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.
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I need to buy parts from AliExpress. The scotus ruling on tariffs came just in time
@MLE_online I didn't hear whats going on with US tariffs?
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In situ hacking
@MLE_online !!???
- you dont ahve "hills"
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- thats a geared motor but it doesn't look like it? -
@MLE_online !!???
- you dont ahve "hills"
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- thats a geared motor but it doesn't look like it?@RueNahcMohr there are gears inside. I think they're planetary
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@MLE_online I didn't hear whats going on with US tariffs?
@RueNahcMohr the supreme court ruled he can't do all that tariff stuff the way he was doing it
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@RueNahcMohr the supreme court ruled he can't do all that tariff stuff the way he was doing it
@MLE_online Thats interesting, I thought the US president has willy-nilly I-say-so on tariffs?
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@MLE_online Thats interesting, I thought the US president has willy-nilly I-say-so on tariffs?
@RueNahcMohr he thinks he does. The court just said he doesn't
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How did you acquire the bike? Is there a “usual route” for these rapidly expiring companies’ products?
@BenHM3 a friend's wife saw it for free on Facebook marketplace and told him to go get it. He didn't know what to do with it, so it sat in his garage for a year before he gave it to me
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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
