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Is this really a common practice outside of FutureMotion/OneWheel?
by callalex 3y ago
Is this really a common practice outside of FutureMotion/OneWheel?
- mperham 3y agoBosch is known to pair their hardware such that you can’t replace a bad element, e.g. replace a bad Bosch battery with a 3rd party unit. The entire Bosch ebike hardware ecosystem is locked down and only approved dealers can repair.
- fragmede 3y agoIt’s pretty common. They’re far from the first ones to have started that practice, which began in the 2000s. The concept of the battery management system (BMS) killing the pack for safety reasons came with modern BMS chips that can do state of health (SoH) measuring, along with state of charge (SoC) measuring.
- ajsnigrutin 3y agoSome laptop manufacturers do that... once you disconnect the voltage from the BMS, the BMS is efectively dead. If you know it, you can use a power supply to keep it energized, if not, tough luck. You can still buy a 3rd party battery to use with that laptop, but the original laptop cannot be "renewed" with new cells anymore.