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Male female power cable keeps on coming loose while riding ebike. Help? (lemmy.perthchat.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.perthchat.org/post/321128

I have tried: taping them together, hot glueing them together and ziptying it right to the frame to prevent jiggle.

All have failed.

Right now, when I reconnect them and apply pressure, I can't even get the engine to turn on anymore. But the speedometer still works and that signal is sent through the engine cable too.

Recently, sometimes the engine rear wheel barely rolls when I roll the bike backwards.

There are no ebike repair stores in my city.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Can you provide pics? Might help us figure out options

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not currently able to join Fuck Cars so I will answer here.

Sounds like the connector is poor quality so it won't make the eight connections properly. Find a motorcycle/scooter repair shop and have them either remove the connection and join the wires or put in a new high-quality connector.

Normally I would suggest using reddit to find someone local to do it but...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sounds to me like a poorly made connector. Maybe you can order a new one?

You could also try putting a piece of shrink tubing over it, plugging it in, then shrinking the tubing over the whole connector.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_ 1 points 1 year ago

Is that an actual picture of them? Probably worth replacing the whole thing if it doesn't connect reliably, but if you don't want to do that and want to jerry rig a fix, might give gaffer's tape a try: It's great for stuff like this!

[–] _haha_oh_wow_ 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Did you ever get this working? Have you tried gaffer's tape maybe? Shrink tubing? @[email protected]