Gazelle Orange

Gazelle Orange
Touring on the Gazelle - Day 2 of the trip home

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Battery Mystery

I have sent the mal-functioning battery to Gazelle Australia.

It has been tested and found to be fully charged with no analytical signs of malfunction.

As a follow-up, I have asked that they make sure that the battery works properly when used in another bike.

If it does then I will have another mystery to solve.

As the situation stands it appears that one battery works with my bike and another, that has tested as functional, does not. That suggests a problem with the interface between the battery and bike for that particular battery.

Interestingly, I have been informed that the battery only comes with a 2 year warranty. I thought that it was guaranteed for a certain number of cycles. When I did my calculation of whole of life cycle cost I did not factor replacing A$700 batteries every 800km of use (that is the most that this battery would have done).

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