Product Description
Approx. 48 KPH top speed Provides you with a whole wheel with tire, not just the tire frame Takes less than hour to install We have FRONT wheel kit and REAR wheel kit in store Feature: 1. The kit includes motorized wheel, motor controller, speed throttle, power break lever, wire harness 2. Quiet and reliable brushless gearless hub motor 3. Motor specifications: 48v / 1000w / 470rpm 4. High motor efficiency: >80% 5. Motor diameter: 245mm 6. Reinforced 32mm rim and 40mm tire 7. Drive system has no moving chains or gears, no friction, more efficient, less chance to break! 8. Brake shuts off motor automatically, saves energy, improves safety! 9. Thumb throttle with 3 LEDs indicator lights 10. Battery charger for charging lead-acid battery 11. Durable 600D Oxford cloth carrying bag along with a zippered main compartment for battery Package content: --Powerful 1000W 48V brushless hub motor --26" front wheel (the whole wheel with tire!) --Battery charger --2 brake pullers --Electric controller --Thumb gear changer with battery power indicator --Battery power indicator --2ea. handlebar grips --Rubber connecting harness (color will pick at random) --Battery not included Special: Comes with upgraded battery carrying bag and end bracket for FREE Battery recommendation: 1. Electrokinetic cell battery ( Li, lead-acid, NiMH battery etc.) featured in nominal voltage 48v, nominal capacity ? 20Ah is compatible with the motor. 2. Li battery is highly recommended, among which LiMn2O4 battery will be of optimum performance.
| Price: | $299.95 |
| as of Fri, 22 Feb 2013 04:15:23 GMT ***Remember, deals price on this item for sale just for limited time*** | |
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #48247 in Sports & Outdoors
- Brand: Mega Brands
- Model: 19EBE003-48V1000-26F
Features
- The kit includes motorized wheel, motor controller, thumb throttle, battery charger, power break lever, wire harness
- Quiet and reliable brushless gearless hub motor
- Brake shuts off motor automatically, saves energy, improves safety!
- Battery charger for charging lead-acid battery (BATTERY NOT INCLUDED)
- Reinforced 32mm rim and 40mm tire
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
33 of 33 people found the following review helpful.
By Evadman
I picked up this kit to add some extra power to a 450 watt kit from Currie that I got last year. The 450 watt kit is fine, but it is louder, and slower than I expected. The chain drive on the currie kit needs a lot of adjustment, and it is very hard to change out flats or the like when I get them because the Currie kit mounts on the rear.
I was originally going to put this on the same bike as the Currie kit. I rewired the switch on the Currie kit so that one direction would put the two 24v batteries in parallel, and the other way in series (either 24 or 48v). that way I could use either motor. After trying this kit, I decided to scratch that idea and use only this 1000w 48v motor with the 2 Currie SLA batteries.
The motor is 470 rpm. That sounds low, until you do the math. On a 26" rim, 470 rpm means 38,370 inches per minute. That is 36.3 miles per hour. So up to that speed, you can hit the throttle and get an assist. It was quite weird when going down a long, steep downhill to hit the throttle and feel the motor provide even more speed. This motor is FAST.
I was actually concerned the first time I used it because of how fast I could go. Several of the roads I travel on used to worry me because of the speed differential between me and the rest of traffic. On the Currie kit, I could do roughly 14 or 15 mph. In this, I am easily double that speed. I keep up with traffic on a 35mph speed limit street.
This does use a lot of power though. On the Currie kit, I could get about 10 miles of range using both batteries when they were brand new. On this kit, I get 4.5 miles max range. Part of that will be the wear on the batteries after a year of use, and some will be because of the excessive wind resistance at high speed. I have only been using this kit for a few days, and I haven't tried going the same speed as my old kit to see if the range differs. It is way too much fun to firewall the throttle and keep it there.
The cables are nice and long too. That was something that annoyed me greatly on the Currie kit. This kit also comes with brake levers that have a cutoff switch on them that cuts the motor. The levers are much longer than the ones that came with my bike, which was perfect to span the extra distance on the handlebars that the thumb throttle takes up.
A few 'gotchas' on this kit:
The directions are very badly translated. I used them more as a reference than as instructions. If this is your first electric project, pick a different kit. The wire harness is not marked, and several connectors can be interchanged. When my kit came, most of the connectors were connected already, but needed to be disconnected to be put on the bike. Make SURE to mark them before disconnecting them. In fact, almost nothing is marked. The controller has '48V' marked on it in pencil, but the motor on the wheel had '48v' engraved on it.
The wheel/motor does not have a direction of rotation on it. I put it on backwards the first time. I could have went very fast in reverse, but it was hard to steer, so I flipped the wheel around. The tire is 1.75" wide, which is thinner than the 2.25's that my bike came with.
Also, something I didn't think about was that since this is on the front, if you apply the throttle when the front is unloaded, it will spin the tire. I actually burnt a throw rug in my house when I did this on accident after I assembled the kit on the bike. I did it again later when I started moving in some gravel, and I ended up digging a hole with the front tire.
If I were doing this all again, I would get 2 Currie batteries, the battery rack, and this motor kit. I like the Currie batteries and rack because they keep the weight low and look professional, but this motor and controller is awesome power-wize compared to the Currie kit.
Here's some links to the other items I talked about:
Currie Technologies Power Kit
Currie Technologies 24-Volt Bicycle Battery Pack, Black
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
By John D. Hutton
This was my first ebike kit and first ebike owned after I built it. It's been a pretty competent kit overall and for the money it's paid for itself in saved gas! I pedal and full-throttle on the way to and from work and I've been able to pull off 35mph max speed (according to my phone app). I get to work about 10 minutes slower than by car in 14 miles distance. So it's been working out great!
I'll go by component:
Bag
It's okay, certainly big enough for any sort of battery you want to put in it. It has 2 holes in it (pictured) for cables and I wired my controlled to be inside of my bag at first so it wouldn't get wet. The controller gets hot, especially the way I ride it, so I ended up turning the bag around on my rack and accessing my charging cable and power cable on the battery with the side pockets and zipper instead of through the holes. I wrapped my battery in foam to protect it (the battery is twice as much as this kit). It's already starting to rip at the seam but it's not bad. I'll have to upgrade someday but for now it's holding up okay.
Strap
Bungee cords are your friend, especially if you keep your battery on your rack vs. inside the triangle in a bag or box or something. The that's shipped in the kit is good and thick, holds onto the battery back nicely. I did add some additional bungee cords to the battery bag though, one doesn't quite cut it.
Rack
It seems like a nice rack, at least when I hold it in my hand. I ended up getting a nice topeak rack so this one was useless. One thing I'll grade down on though, they didn't get you screws with the rack. ??? If that was intentional that's dumb but not major. It's a kit. The advantage to buying a kit (or should be) is that you don't have to worry about stupid stuff like this.
Charger
I chose a 48v 20ah LiFePO4 battery so I had no need for this sealed lead acid charger. I'm told you can use them on my kind of battery if you know what you're doing, but since I don't I just shoved it aside. No comment.
Grips
Hard to mess grips up. I didn't end up using these as I had some already. These grips are closed at one end and my mountain bike has those handlebars which angle up at a 90 degree at both ends for alternate grips. So these were useless.
Throttle
So far so good, it acts like you'd expect a throttle to. The harder you press, the more juice gets to your motor the faster you go. :-) Obviously if you have thumb shifters (which I do) you should plan on getting a twist throttle eventually but you can make do with a thumb throttle for a while. Honestly now that my bike is an ebike I don't use the right shifters much, I use the left (front derailer) to switch from low to high and that's about it. I wish I had some faster gears on my bike so I could keep better pace with the motor!
Brakes
Didn't use these. These hook into the controller and cut the motor off when you're breaking. My mountain bike's shifters and brakes were one piece so I opted not to use these. If you don't want them just shove them in a box or sell them, you don't have to have them plugged in for the kit to work.
Controller
As mentioned previously, this gets hot. I stored it in the bag at first, then when it got hot I took it out and re-wired so that it is screwed into where my vertical water bottle mounts are. This has worked out great and it never gets beyond slightly warm now. A lot more efficient to let the rushing wind cool your components!
Motor
So far awesome. Like I said I can go to a max of 35mph (with pedaling). Never tried without pedaling, it feels weird to get on my bike and just sit there letting the motor do the work, plus you don't go quite as fast so I just pedal and throttle all of the time. It's awesome!
Wheel
The rim seems pretty solid, the spokes are thicker in diameter than those I had on my vanilla back wheel already, which is good. I've broken a few spokes on my non-motor wheel on the back and would like to someday upgrade my back wheel to avoid more broken spokes, but for now a stock wheel should be fine for the weight of the battery. Of course broken spokes on the back wheel isn't relevant for this review, just keep in mind that the extra weight may warrant a slightly better wheel in the back.
Also on the wheel, there's no liner. I'm guessing this is a silly oversight since even a cheapo liner would cost next to nothing to install. When they ship you the wheel it already has the tube and tire on it, so I didn't bother taking them off to see inside. A few days ago I had a flat and when I took the tire and tube off the holes of the spokes were completely exposed. Surprise surprise the hole in my tube was from a section of the tube that had worked its way down into the spoke holes. I wrapped electrical tape around the wheel a few times to act as a liner and expect that to be fine. Just irritated there wasn't a liner in the first place.
Not a bad kit for the money. Heed the advice of another reviewer on amazon, mark all of your connections before you disconnect everything! :-)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
By razor02097
This kit does indeed include everything you would need to convert your existing bike except the batteries...
The bag: The bag is about the size of a medium backpack. It is as another reviewer said large enough to fit just about any battery you would want. There are 2 side pockets that are large enough for a small bike lock, bungee straps or small bike pump. The bag attaches by 6 Velcro mounting straps on the bottom of the bag. There are 2 eyelets in the front of the bag one is larger than the other.
The rack: I didn't use this since I already have one but the rack appears decent quality. It is built pretty strong I don't think it would have any issues holding batteries on it.
The controller: The controller is about 8"x3"x2". The outside case is aluminum with steel end caps. There appears to be rubber gaskets and there is sealant around where the wires come out. IMO this controller appears water RESISTANT. Can't say yet for performance I will update this review once I have done some road time.
The controls: The throttle is all plastic with a metal retaining ring and set screw. Installation is very easy and straight forward. There are 3 LED lights on the top which indicate full battery, half battery and empty battery. There is a red button which I am assuming is the on/off button the instructions do not say. They also include grips in the kit if you want them. The brake levers aren't something I can use but also appear to be good quality. Note that both brake levers are wired together at the connector that goes to the controller so if for what ever reason you need only one you will have to cut wires.
The wheel: As another reviewer noted the wheel did not come with a liner. I swapped over to my original tire so I reused my liner. The tire that came with it is actually better quality than the tire I have on my hybrid bike... The motor spun freely and all of the spokes were tight. The instructions do not tell you specifics on mounting the tire but some common sense will help you along. One reviewer noted that they installed the wheel backwards. There are 2 things that you can refer to. First is the tire is directional. There is an arrow that shows the rotation direction. In the instructions there are pictures of bikes that have the motor mounted. All of the bikes show the wires coming out of the same side. If you are on the bike looking at the front wheel the wires will be coming out of the left side.
The charger: The charger is very basic. There is only an indicator light.
The Wiring: A few reviewers noted that the wiring is tricky. Maybe they revamped my kit or something. The 3 wires for the motor are different colors. One is green, one is purple the other is yellow. The connector to the motor is large and can't fit other connectors. The throttle connectors also can only go to their mates and only in one way. It's probably not a bad idea to note all of the connections to make life easier but don't freak out.
The kit was pretty painless to install on the bike and it looks great!
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