Marty Backe Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Using EUC World (thanks @Seba) I updated my KS18XL firmware and then did a range test 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seba Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Great video, as usual! I was very curious your opinion about 2.0 firmware. A one note - with new 2.0 firmware there is new wheel behaviour: after turning on it won't start balancing if the wheel is not vertically level. I see Marty experienced this during subsequent restart after low-battery tiltback And one tip - KS-18L/XL goes into this 45° tiltback when battery voltage drops to 60 V or below. So to avoid this it's good to watch voltage and ride gently enough to keep battery voltage above 60 V. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Backe Posted January 20, 2020 Author Share Posted January 20, 2020 (edited) 39 minutes ago, Seba said: Great video, as usual! I was very curious your opinion about 2.0 firmware. A one note - with new 2.0 firmware there is new wheel behaviour: after turning on it won't start balancing if the wheel is not vertically level. I see Marty experienced this during subsequent restart after low-battery tiltback And one tip - KS-18L/XL goes into this 45° tiltback when battery voltage drops to 60 V or below. So to avoid this it's good to watch voltage and ride gently enough to keep battery voltage above 60 V. Interesting. I assumed why it would not balance was because the battery was too low and it still hadn't recovered enough since I turned it off. But no, it was because I hadn't leveled the wheel. Thanks for the tip. Of course I don't recommend driving the wheel to 45-degree tilt-back, but it's interesting to see how it behaves at that extreme low voltage. Edited January 20, 2020 by Marty Backe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seba Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 11 minutes ago, Marty Backe said: Interested. I assumed why it would balance was because the battery was too low and it still hadn't recovered enough since I turned it off. But no, it was because I hadn't leveled the wheel. Thanks for the tip. When I experienced this for first time I was also surprised and at first though that I did something wrong or something got screwed up. But soon I realized that this is just a new "feature", undocumented in release notes. Well, it makes sense - for example if you want to use your wheel as a BT speaker and don't want engine to engage. 14 minutes ago, Marty Backe said: Of course I don't recommend driving the wheel to 45-degree tilt-back, but it's interesting to see how it behaves at that extreme low voltage. Yeah, it's always better not to drain the battery to empty, but... sometimes you just don't have a choice if you don't want to walk remaining distance And this is why I implemented "optimized" battery level: to mentally keep the less experienced riders from emptying battery and making the wheel unrideable before reaching their destination or a charging stop. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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