Service Life And Warranty; Of Drive; Of Battery - Panasonic Pedelec Mode D'emploi

› Check there is suicient charge in the battery for
the journey you intend to make before setting of.
› In winter the distance you can normally cover with
the battery operating normally is less. Only move
the battery rom the warm room where you store
it and it it on your Pedelec just before you set of.
This prevents low temperatures rom reducing the
distance you can normally travel. A correspond-
ing diagram is provided in ➠ Chapter 11 "Technical
data".
› The distance you can cover can vary depending on
the topography, your handling, the condition of the
battery and the assist level you are using.
› If all diodes lash consecutively, or several lash
at the same time (2 – 3 diodes), the battery is
damaged.
Before taking the battery to your specialist cycle shop
to have it checked, put the battery in the charger for
one minute then test it again.
6.5

Service life and warranty

6.5.1 of drive

The Panasonic centre motor is a ully-developed durable
and maintenance-ree drive. It is a wear part with a two-
year warranty. As its power output is higher, wear parts
such as the drive and brakes are subject to higher loads
than they would be on a normal bike which is why they
wear out more quickly.

6.5.2 of battery

Batteries are wear parts. Wear parts also come with a two-
year warranty.
If the battery develops a fault during this period, your
specialist cycle shop will of course replace it. Normal age-
ing and battery wear do not constitute a fault.
22 III User Manual Pedelec with centre motor
The service life of the battery depends on diferent factors.
The most important wear-relevant factors are
• the number of charge cycles and
• the age of the battery.
When you have ully charged and discharged your battery
1,100 times, it will still have 60% of its initial capacity,
providing it has been well looked ater:
REMAINING
BATTERY
CAPACITY
8 Ah 4.8 Ah
12 Ah 7.2 Ah
18 Ah 10.8 Ah
From the technical standpoint above therefore, the battery
is exhausted at this point. It also goes without saying that
the battery ages. Even if you do not use your battery, its
capacity reduces.
Providing you can still cover the journey distances with
this remaining battery capacity, you can of course con-
tinue using it. If the capacity is no longer suicient, you
can take your battery to a specialist cycle shop who will
dispose of your battery and sell you a new one.
› You can extend the service life of the battery by
ully recharging it ater every journey, however
short. The Panasonic Li-cobalt battery has no
memory efect.
› You can also extend the service life of the battery
by using the assistance selectively. Avoid, for ex-
ample, using gears that make pedalling diicult
with the highest assist level activated.
~ DISTANCE COVERED
19,360 km
30,800 km
52,800 km