This info was priceless in making my conversion from NiMH to Lithium. When we tried to resurect my wifes E3 with the help of wrandyr and Firedog, I had moderate success. wrandyr helped me identify some workable batteries that got the bike running for a short test run. The sense boards kept burning out(I owe you a pic). Jan insisted in going directly to a Lithium conversion instead of diagnosing the failure cause. Firedog showed us his process to set-up for a Lithium conversion. . I tried to emulate his set up on his bikes with our E3. He basically didn’t use the control module and display.
I used the Sens boards and control from our bike and connected directly to the Lithium battery pack we created. When I worked with Wrandyr many months ago he helped me pull apart one of my hubs so I used those boards to connect my system.



I was able to get my system to power up but there was a short somewhere that I could not identify. I found when I used a another bundle of sense boards(2nd hub i had where i removed the batteries, leaving the spindle and boards attached) I was able to get a perfect running bike.

The problem is that I haven't been able to disassemble the 2nd spindle and use those boards in my set-up because I don't know how to pull the RS485 cable through the spindle without destroying it. Once I figure this out I will have a successful conversion.
I want to disassemble this spindle and use these working parts but I cant figure out how to remove the RS485 cable without cutting it. I am not sure if I should then where do I find the connector and the skill to reconnect it.