lepton oxygen maintenance
Hi,
I see in the Lepton Oxygen User's Manual that the rear wheel gear reduction oil should be checked every 5000 km. I also see that there's two small holes (covered by rubber plugs) in the front wheel (see below picture). But the manual doesn't say anything about oil in the front wheel. Does anybody know whether there's oil there that needs to be changed too?
Thanks,
James
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HCT,
We would like to begin creating the Lepton Oxygen Collaborative Hand Books, can the "Lepton circle of friends" take ownership and provide us with some additional information on the Lepton Oxygen E Scooter. For one thing we need to know the wattage, so we can put it in the correct group, under or over 1500 watts.
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According to the manual , we have 1800 watts brushless motor , have two of them and very happy , have only driven another electric scooter the E-Ton , much faster , but not as solid as the Lepton .
I am focusing on power pack , especially BMS ( batteries management system )and thermal management .
The lepton battery compartment should be able to accept a BMS and some thermal management , this would go a long way toward
extending the number of cycles regardless of which chemistries is used .
Andre
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HCT,
Thanks the Lepton Oxygen E Scooter Collaborative Hand Books have been created. Any additional information about the Lepton Oxygen you can add would be greatly appreciated.
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Hi Andre. I actually bought it used. The original Nickel-Zinc batteries are dead. But they are replaced with Hawker 40Ah batteries. I actually haven't riden it to it's maximum range yet. Still being gentle and trying to do all the maitenance before stretching it.
Do you happen to still have the Evercel Packs ? if so can you take a picture of them , and if you want to get rid of them I be glad to pay for the shippping to CT .
Regards
Andre
Hi Andre. Sorry, nope. The previous owner was the one that replaced the Evercells with the Hawkers. So when I got it, it was already the Hawkers.
There is no oil in the front hub - no gears to lubricate.
The oil in the rear should be changed at the first 500 km, and again every 5000. Use 90W gear oil. You'll see when you change it why you need to - new oil has the color of honey, used oil the color of tar.
I know a fair bit about the Lepton. I have several, and 3500 miles on my oldest one. I also work on them professionally.
What else would you like to know?
I just got one from a place called http://www.thunderstruck-ev.com/Lepton.htm
I drove up to Santa Rose about 60 miles, with a trailer to get it. It was "used" with about 90km on it. They said the bought them from companies that have them in storage. All batteries were replaced and some parts. I drive it to work about 22 miles round trip. The lead acid batters they put they said were better than the originals. I paid $1650 for it, it had a few nicks in the paint but works like new.
I too am looking for a shop manual.
I found a users manual and a users manual for the charger on the web. They did not give me manual.
A long time ago I drove a motorcycle but this is different. A cross between a bicycle and a motorcycle, I can and have to use the bike lanes. The kids love to ride in it.
How long the the Li and Nickel zinc batteries last? I know the Li are very expensive but are a lot lighter, was told they will double the range. I was told these batteries will last 2 years. Not much time. I bought it to save money it cost about $5 a day to drive my truck.
I charged it with a meter and it used 1.85kwh. Was not fully charged but still got me to work and back. That is about .30 a day a big difference!
Is there a way to override the max speed? I understand with the better batteries you can get more speed out of it if you can override the computer.
Could someone familiar with Leptons remind me how the dash displays will (or won't) read the battery status and range after I switch to a new LiFePO4 pack? I have one of ThunderStruck's Lepton-es modified to use SLAs and have been using them up until now. I seem to remember reading an earlier thread about it not showing the true range or battery status but don't remember all of the message or what I should use the dash information correctly. Please be patient...I am a real newbie to this world and plan to have a local mechanical friend do the installation for me. It will be a new project for him also.
There are only two kinds of brakes on the front of a scooter.
Hydraulic Disk and cable drum.
Judging by the cable asm going to the front brake (which looks
the same as any rear drum brake), I say the front brake is a drum.
On cars with Hydraulic Drum brakes, they have removable plugs that
give you access to tighten up the shoes as they wear.
For a cable type drum brake the external adjustment loosens or
tightens both shoes. Maybe the plugs are to adjust each individually.
Hello James , welcome to Lepton circle of friends , can you tell us , how many miles your scooter has , and what batteries are you using .
Maybe someone known , what those plug in the front cover , have tried numerous times to get a factory address , phone or any contact to get my hand on a service shop manual , no success !.Have two leptons one with 210 miles the other with 165 , running Nickel-Zinc pack . averaging about 35 miles in normal mode and about 25 miles in rabbit mode . what about you ?
Regards
Andre
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