Harry Bloomfield Esq <harry.m1byt@outlook.com> wrote:
Aside from the Polish company Veleco reselling this range, Green Power
in the UK also sell them, so those owners will be equally welcome. The
scooters are actually built in China. IMHO they are well designed, and
well built.
I have no personal experience with such machines, but often when something
is imported from China it's possible to dig around on Alibaba and find the original manufacturer - either by recognising the design or by taking it apart and looking for clues internally. You may find they also offer components for sale which is a useful source of spares - for smaller items once you know what you're looking for they can sometimes be found on Aliexpress.
With a bit more sleuthing you may also find other brands reselling the same models, which means you can share parts and repair information.
For example, there's a popular knockoff of the Mirka Deros random orbital sander:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Ws3Bgp_bA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jelEm54OLQw
which I managed to track down the OEM as:
https://burley.en.alibaba.com/
They wouldn't sell me their sander in quantity 1 so I bought the Sealey one (not massively more once VAT and shipping from China was included), but
parts for their models are available from Aliexpress, so I know where to go to get sanding pads, PCBs etc in future.
Theo
I'm sure some of you, like me, rely upon a mobility scooter to get
about. I recently bought myself a Class 3, Veleco Gravis, which I am >absolutely delighted with. Wanting to be able to repair/maintain it
myself - I then did a search, to see if there was any sort of forum, for >support and exchange of information on these scooters, but all I could
find was a Facebook forum, run by Veleco themselves, with any negative >comments about the scooters filtered out, along with it seems any
practical help to DIY. The company almost insist on their engineers
doing all the work.
Not happy with this far too tightly moderated, 'closed shop', I have
just set up an alternative forum, where members can freely share any >problems, help, and information.
It's here - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1168046121135899
Aside from the Polish company Veleco reselling this range, Green Power
in the UK also sell them, so those owners will be equally welcome. The >scooters are actually built in China. IMHO they are well designed, and
well built.
Aside from the Polish company Veleco reselling this range, Green Power
in the UK also sell them, so those owners will be equally welcome. The scooters are actually built in China. IMHO they are well designed, and
well built.
There's a VelecoEU eBay store on -er- eBay selling spare parts: https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/velecoeu
Nick Odell <nickodell49@yahoo.ca> wrote:
There's a VelecoEU eBay store on -er- eBay selling spare parts:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/velecoeu
That's handy. It looks like many parts are from the Chinese e-bike ecosystem, so it shouldn't be difficult to find similar if not identical parts. Unlike Western e-bikes it's a pretty open ecosystem - rather than using software, communication is often with switches and basic DC voltages
so you can easily swap out one electrical part for another.
(in China, there's no hard distinction between pedal e-bike and moped, so often the chunkier ebikes are built like mopeds. Once you have an electric moped you can use many of the same parts to make a mobility scooter)
Theo
Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
Nick Odell <nickodell49@yahoo.ca> wrote:
There's a VelecoEU eBay store on -er- eBay selling spare parts:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/velecoeu
That's handy. It looks like many parts are from the Chinese e-bike ecosystem, so it shouldn't be difficult to find similar if not identical parts. Unlike Western e-bikes it's a pretty open ecosystem - rather than using software, communication is often with switches and basic DC voltages so you can easily swap out one electrical part for another.
(in China, there's no hard distinction between pedal e-bike and moped, so often the chunkier ebikes are built like mopeds. Once you have an electric moped you can use many of the same parts to make a mobility scooter)
Theo
Given the publicity that dodgy E-bike fires are receiving at the moment, maybe the DIY approach isn’t the best.
There's a VelecoEU eBay store on -er- eBay selling spare parts: https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/velecoeu
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