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Damn
Completely snapped
Reddit comments being wannabe EEs
Lovely.
Damn scary, but it really sucks that torque arms suck
They didn't use torque arms
^^
Or there would be a half mangled V1 torque arm in the pic.
Or there wouldn't have been a pic
Ok so I just plugging in my charger and a orange spark came from the battery input/charger output when I plugged it in . Didn't start charging. So then I unplugged it and plug it in again and this time a huge blue spark came from the charger itself. And now the green indicator light don't work just the red , and of course it won't charge. Note that it's pretty wet outside, think it could have been the wetness?
Sounds plausible, though it's hard to say for sure. Unless the charger was actually out in the rain, in which case, probably yes. lol
But yeah, big spark from the charger itself, she's dead Jim.
It was Infact out in the rain ... Darn it
Ouch :(
yea chargers need to stay dry and have 0 water resistance unless fancy ass sealed like grins
Looks like I'm stuck to solar charging till a new charger comes in (1 month shipping) .. unless there's a way to repair it from parts from another charger (2a not 10a) gues I'm shit outta luck
And on top of that can't let my battery die else my malfunctioning display wont turn back on after battery dies ... Yikes
Guess I can hook up my battery to my other bike to check the voltage reader on the throttle
You could snip snip the head off the old one and solder it onto the a replacement
Leave yourself plenty of wire to work with
No replacement charger tho
The 2a is broken as well
Probably had some salvageable parts
ebay?
Still will take a month to get here üòî
...Why?
I live on an island and shipping takes a long time , also can't afford fast shipping
If there was a way I could use my mppt boost controller on something other than solar panels
Well you can in the future do that if your charger brakes
Now why did you leave it out in the rain
The charger
I always charge outside, and I didn't know it was gonna rain , and when I got back the charger and cord etc was wet. And I guess also the battery input
Should've had a cover over it I guess
And know something funny?
After all was said and done , I go to unplug the charger from the extension cord I was using and the freaking wire just pulls off leaving the plug still in the extension cord
Must've fried it pretty darn good
have you considered just storing your charger indoors like a normal person
Do normal people diy ebikes?
Nah
Usually it's only weirdos
haha
At least I can cover it this time
Gonna try fixing it
Internal components seem fine
Need to find some fudgeking elec tape first . Gah
https://tenor.com/view/alucard-funny-abridged-gif-16345364
I just fixed it , turned out the water was in the extension cord output, and fried the wires down low by the charger plug. Was a hard task with a short amount of wire and electric tape to work with , but I got it working again, yay
All I'm afraid of now , is this shitty tape moving or melting due to the heat and shorting out the wires inside lol
Back in business yay
do not charge outside
Y
the elements + ebike = very bad time
And charging 200-400w compounds that immensely
rain happens, as you found out
Don't tempt fate
Lithium is not merciful
^^, rain hits the wrong part of that charger and next time it may overvolt the batteries
O dear
Looks like I'm going to have to make a tarp shelter for my bike now
What happened if the charger wires down by plugin shorted
You blew a breaker, likely
@mhatayas Hopefully a breaker blows. Worse case it starts a fire.
So use power bar instead?
I'm scared that what happens next
Extension cord to power bar
... use a dry area
and ideally just chop off the damaged part of the cord and wire a new plug on it if its already had a short.
Gotchs
Will do now
Wires are weird colors tho
Not sure where they should go
Green is ground.
Failing that, check the plug you chopped off to see what wires go to what
Yeah guess ims have to do that
It's a encased plug tho
Will be pretty hard to chip apart
Guess I'll use a hack saw
Glad to hear it was something simple.
Incredibly sketchy, but at least it was simple. lol
I thought for sure that thing was done for . Everything looked fine when I opened it up , so I said eh , might as well give it a shot , lol
lol fair
... measure the wires coming outta it, with a DMM on continuity mode..
Last thing I would have thought of lol
Yet the simplest solution
Use multimeter in continuity mode
Lol
Already fixed
yea I dunno how all these people always overlook beep mode.
One of the most useful modes.
Yeah like, oh damn can't figure what this wire goes to *pokes around with veep mode and everything beeps* oh it's the ground. Or a horrible short.
hehe
Reminds me of the time I accidently shorted middle terminal of a 24v UPS batt to chassie
Turns out, while they fuse posative, they do not fuse negative.
I mean, they sorta fuse negative, if you count the 6" of trace I vaporized off the PCB that went to the chassie screw point
cue me busting out a soldering iron, "Im'a just replace this vaporized trace, and reconnect the 2 things it went to that now have 1" of trace delaminated from the PCB. And im sure it will work FINEEEE"
And against all sanity, Yea the UPS worked fine after that.
Lol that’s kind of what happened with my 12V PCB
I now have a jumper wire to replace it
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