The battery indicator should rebound back up once you reach your cruising speed, level out, or you add more leg power. You should see your battery indicator dip down 1-3 bars once you started to use PAS 5. The second thing the battery indicator does is show you how much power you are drawing when engaging PAS 1-5 and/or throttle. When you stopped for a minute, the battery indicator was probably in the 80% range but, showed 100% on the 5 bar indicator. Grayed out and flashing mean battery pack is depleted and needs to be recharged (ebike might only turn on for a second before shutting down if too low) At rest it shows the current battery % to the closest to 5 bar readings that are spaced in 20% increments. From my observation after +7000 miles between both ebikes is the battery indicator is doing double duty. I have two 2016 Radrover and I don't know if the newer rads updated the LCD display. But if you do that once or twice for a lower PAS setting, and once or twice for a higher PAS setting, you will have a real world idea of what your bike's range actually is, and what the bars actually indicate.Īnd just to add to that, you will probably need to get a couple of hundred miles on the bike and a few charges before the battery settles in to a predictable state of charge/discharge. Don't do this too far from home, as once you notice that drop off, you may only have single digit (or low double digit) range left. My own preference is to ride the bike a couple of times until you notice the power drop off. There are voltage charts in other threads that show you a ballpark estimate of what each voltage means for percentage of capacity. Many folks prefer to trust the actual voltage reading instead of the percentage or bars if your display allows you to switch modes. It is common for the battery to add a bar after rest, as it stabilizes once you stop riding, and thermally equalizes again. Things like temperature, PAS setting and current load, etc all affect the accuracy. Some bikes are better than others at compensating with the firmware programming, but all bikes have a pretty significant variance in accuracy. They have a tendency to show you high voltage until they are almost dead, and then drop suddenly. I wish I displayed percentage instead of the bars.Ĭlick to expand.This has been covered extensively in other threads, so I'd search it rather than try and start from scratch, but the long and short of it is that lithium batteries don't die like alkaline or lead acid. I am not complaining and if I can do 30 miles and only use a bar or two of battery I'm good but wanted to ask so I can be sure to trust the battery gauge.
Rad power bike battery indicator manual#
I did charge it fully for just under 12 hours for the first 3 rides as the manual recommended.
Rad power bike battery indicator full#
I rolled into my drive way, a neighbor was walking buy so I chatted for ~10 mins then when pulling the bike into the garage noticed the battery gauge showed full bars again.
During this ride the battery dropped another bar. I made a stop for 2 hours to hang out with some friends, and when I came out the battery gauge was full.Īt this point I was very tired so I used PAS-5 to get home which was the final 2.5 miles and 350 elevation gain. During this part the battery dropped 1 bar from full. For most of the trip I used PAS-1 but for the last 3-5 miles I used PAS-2 as I was getting tired. Today I did my longest at 33 miles and ~1600ft elevation gain. I've put a bit over 100 miles on my bike so far with 10 mile or so rides.
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