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> FDNY has a huge problem with cheap scooters and e-bikes catching fire in residential structures. For those interested, it's shitty imported cheap products, a
by girvo 4y ago
> FDNY has a huge problem with cheap scooters and e-bikes catching fire in residential structures.
For those interested, it's shitty imported cheap products, and/or (and I believe this is more common) cheap shitty third party chargers that overload the BMS/don't shut off correctly when they are supposed to.
Buy reputable brands (lots and lots of the scooters and e-bikes you see are just re-branded stuff from the same Chinese OEM) and don't get a third party charger, stick to first-party ones.
- SamuelAdams 4y agoEasier said than done. Shopping on Amazon makes the cheap products look just as legitimate as the expensive products.
- jacquesm 4y agoThe one can look suspiciously close to the other, to the point that when I look at the individual cells I still have a hard time. Usually weighing them will give you some way to discriminate the cells, BMS's are totally opaque. If I have a hard time telling the knock offs from the real deal how do you expect someone that is only interested in the use, and not in the tech, to tell the difference?