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JawnyUtah /r/Super73
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1970-01-20 02:41:21.264 +0000 UTC

I bought a kanebilt headlight recently for the Z Miami. Kanebilt put the option for the Z Miami on their site before they even had a Z Miami to test it out on. Pretty unprofessional. It didn't come with a battery or the cables cause they thought the Z Miami would have the cables to plug the headlight into. So I've had to piece it together myself.

I bought this battery: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B016BJCRUO

I bought this cable: https://custom-ebike.com/collections/electronics/products/3-pin-higo-to-12v-battery-connector

But it didn't work. The higo connector on it was the male, and you need the female.

So then I bought this: https://www.amazon.com/baluoqi-Extension-Waterproof-Electric-Throttle/dp/B08P2K5B54

I spliced the female higo end on that cable onto the cable from ebike, replacing the male higo end. It's pretty easy to do, you only need to strip and connect 2 wires. The battery comes with a few cables that you may be able to use with the ebike extension cable, foregoing the need for the cable from custom-ebike. I just didn't do it that way since I had the extra cable.

I haven't mounted the battery yet. I'm going to build a box out of metal for it this weekend and mount it on the front down tube.

One other thing to note is that the switches in the kit suck. They don't fit the handlebars properly and the holes for the bolts got stripped super easily. So I'm going to figure out how to mount the switch into the metal box I'm going to build.

Honestly, if I knew I was going to have to go through all of this, I never would have bought a kanebilt headlight. I'm perfectly capable of doing all of this. But for the cost of these things, everything should be perfect from the start. If you don't want the hassle and can return it, that's what I would do.