Lights have another use, besides allowing others to see you & reducing your range [by a tiny amount].
In certain circuits, like this one for example:
BMS bypassed with loopkey and discharging with lights/accessories circuit
The lights also act as a mine canary — if they shut down while you are riding, then you have a serious battery problem and need to pull over and shutdown immediately. But this is without cutting your brakes or shutting down your drivetrain.
Anyone every measured the actual Amps they pull out of these? Because if the data pins don’t get the correct voltage depending on the device it will fall back to 0,5A charging. I’m looking to charge at 1.5 to 2.1A
but this way you have to be running the bms on charge and discharge, right?
No, that is a Bypass wiring
The lights are connected to discharge, if present. The ESC is not though; it’s connected straight to the battery.
OK, let me see if I understand. I connect the lights to the bms discharge, and this can help me drain the load, but in turn do I connect the battery with a switch so that I can turn them on when I need it?
The loopkey is the switch
It turns on the lights and the ESC
I think I already understand a little better, but then if you wanted to turn on the lights separately from the esc you couldn’t do it this way, right?
While I do understand using anything with a light as a flashlight I don’t see why the ESCs would need to be off while you do that.
I do not want the escs off while the light is on, rather I do not want to always have the lights on when the esc is on
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oh hmm right, Guess the lights need their own switch after all.
How you get that to connect to whatever remote idk. I think manual switches on the deck are good enough for just getting the job done.
Just put a small rocker switch in series with the lights then
