Product Recall Number: 18-200
Why was Hill Topper Electric Bike motor controller circuit board recalled?
Water can enter the motor controller and cause it to accelerate on its own, posing a crash and injury hazard to the rider.
Product Recall Number: 18-200
Product Safety Warning Number:
Date: 2018-08-02
Product Safety Warning Date:
Name Of Product: Hill Topper Electric Bike motor controller circuit board
Description: This recall involves Hill Topper Electric Bike Kits with motor controller circuit boards used to convert regular bicycles to electric bicycles. The motor controller circuit boards, 24V/250W and 36V/350W, were sold separately as well as part of the kits. The model numbers KT24WSH-BF08 and KT36WSH-BFZ13504 can be found on the front of the motor control units.
Hazard Description: Water can enter the motor controller and cause it to accelerate on its own, posing a crash and injury hazard to the rider.
Consumer Action: None Listed
Original Product Safety Warning Announcement: None Listed
Remedy Type: Replace
Units: About 3,350
Incidents: The firm has received six reports of a rider losing control of his bike when the motor accelerated without rider input, including one reported injury resulting in scrapes and bruises to the rider.
Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled motor controller circuit boards and kits and contact the firm for a free replacement motor controller circuit board.
Sold At: Hill Topper’s Seattle store and online at www.electric-bike-kit.com from January 2017 through June 2018 for $50 (24V/250W units) to $60 (36V/350W units) and for between $500 and $800 when sold with the kits.
Importers: Clean Republic SODO LLC, dba “UKKO,” Seattle, Wash.
Manufacturers: Suzhou Kunteng Electronics Co., LTD.
Distributors: Clean Republic SODO LLC, dba “UKKO,” Seattle, Wash.
Manufactured In: China
Custom Label: None Listed
Custom Field: None Listed