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[Specter]

Ive been playing with the regen braking on me Ribelle, getting to learn it and use it better.  I really love it TBH.
Putting it into heavy regen, at first I hated it, it was too abrupt IMO, but after getting used to the whole concept and learning how to feather the throttle and work it like a fiddle, I am really liking it now.

With this in mind though, on  high setting this can slow your bike down pretty darned fast to be honest.  Fast enough that it'd probably be nice to let the person behind you on the road know you are slowing down.   Does regen activate the brake light, maybe after say a certain threshold of it maybe?  Like if you are regenning 3 plus KW it's time to turn the brake light on because that's slowing YOU down  fast enough to be equivalent to some decent braking?

If not this might be a nice safety feature and shouldn't be too hard to add.

Just curious if it activates the brake or not.

Aaron

[DonTom]

Ive been playing with the regen braking on me Ribelle, getting to learn it and use it better.  I really love it TBH. Putting it into heavy regen, at first I hated it, it was too abrupt IMO, but after getting used to the whole concept and learning how to feather the throttle and work it like a fiddle, I am really liking it now.

With this in mind though, on  high setting this can slow your bike down pretty darned fast to be honest.  Fast enough that it'd probably be nice to let the person behind you on the road know you are slowing down.   Does regen activate the brake light, maybe after say a certain threshold of it maybe?  Like if you are regenning 3 plus KW it's time to turn the brake light on because that's slowing YOU down  fast enough to be equivalent to some decent braking?

If not this might be a nice safety feature and shouldn't be too hard to add.

Just curious if it activates the brake or not.

Aaron

In most EVs, the brake light will blink fast with regenerative decelation. In older Zeros, such as mine, it does not. But the regen in those are quite low anyway.


Energica has a fast blink with regenerative deceleration.  So does Tesla and I assume all EV cars.


The smaller Zeros are the only exception that I know of.


So yeah, your Ribelle has a fast blinking brake light with regenerative deceleration. The brake light will be on steady and will NOT blink when you activate the real front or rear brake.


-Don-  Reno, NV

[Dryer667]

Hans did a nice video on this as well so you can see it in action.

[Specter]

Thank you for the replies everyone and yah, that's good to know !!  The more we can alert drivers what we are up to, the fewer excuses they can use as to why they didn't see us, know we were slowing / turning etc etc.

Aaron