Yes, of course. Without a battery hooked up the wheelbarrow operates like a normal manual wheelbarrow, just with a heavier hub. 

You may notice that the power button indicator LED lights up and the charge level indicators blink once you start pushing the device. That is just the motor acting as a generator and creating a back-emf voltage as it spins.  It's totally normal and expected behaviour. 

Grin warrants the Loadrunner kit for three years under normal and appropriate use and will repair/replace any components found defective in this time frame. 

Notice that this does not include puncture flats on the tires. If you are using the wheelbarrow in an environment with nails, staples, and other sharp objects we'd recommend putting Slime in the inner tube. 

It's not normal for wheelbarrows to have brakes, but the Loadrunner does have them and they sure are useful! 

The braking is controlled electronically from the left side throttle. You get proportional braking based on how far you push the brake throttle, enabling you to control the downhill motion of a heavy wheelbarrow just as easily as the uphill. 

The braking torque is generated inside the motor itself with the energy going right back into the battery pack. 

Notice that the wheel and mount also have provisions for a mechanical disk brake if an additional redundant mechanical brake or parking brake is desired.  They use regular bicycle brake rotor and caliper standards. 

That's a great question, and of course it depends on:
A) how large a battery you have (amp-hours)
B) how much load you are carrying, and
C) how steep is the hill (% Grade)

The table below summarizes the expected range under different conditions. As an example, a wheelbarrow carrying 200lbs (90kg) with a 4Ah battery can go 20-25 km on flat ground, but 3-4km up a 10% grade hill. Roughly speaking you can expect double this distance if moving half the weight. 

Most wheelbarrow trips are relatively short distances of 10-50 metres, so even 1 km of distance is quite a few loads back and forth.

Yes, for a limited time we are offering free installation services to customers here in Vancouver!    

Simply drop off your wheelbarrow after purchasing the kit and we will install it for you.  This will help us ensure compatibility over a wide range of wheelbarrow platforms and any fitment concerns we can resolve with the tools in our shop. 

The Loadrunner motor controller draws a maximum of 15 amps from the battery pack.  You can use the small 1.5Ah or 2Ah power tool batteries, but we usually recommend 3Ah or more.  The larger the battery, the more range you will have on a charge. 

However, really large powertool batteries (like 9Ah+) can be so heavy that there is a higher risk of cracking the battery mount if the wheelbarrow is tossed around a lot.  So keep that in mind.  Replacing a cracked battery mount in any case is quite easy. 

In that case, you can usually find an off-the-shelf adapter from your brand to one of the ones we support here. 

We found that the vast majority of tradespeople in Canada and the USA use one of the 3 brands above, and many 3rd party adapters exist to fit other 18V battery brands (e.g. Bosch, Ridgid, etc.) into these holders. We recommend checking out powertoolsadapters.ca ,  they specialize in carrying a wide assortment of powertool battery adapters. 

That is ideal to get the most range. However our battery monitor circuit will safely shut off whenever one of the packs is too low.  Unlike many other dual battery devices, you can safely combine two batteries that are at different charge levels, or even use two batteries of different capacities (e.g. one 2Ah pack and one 4Ah pack), if that's all you have around.

Not with the 18V kits in this store, which are built for two 18V packs. The Loadrunner Wheelbarrow Kit with LiGo Batteries on ebikes.ca runs from a single higher-voltage battery, with two ways to set it up.

1. Use Grin's LiGo batteries. Choose 1 to 3 LiGo modules and the LiGo charger. The batteries mount on a rail under the kit and it is ready to go, with no wiring of your own. Three LiGos last most tradespeople a full day.

2. Use your own pack. Choose "None" for the LiGo count. Your battery must be 36V to 52V nominal and deliver 15 amps of continuous current. You will need to make your own battery mount and wiring, to XT60 or Anderson connectors.

Yes, you can purchase just the motor by itself, with or without a tire, from Grin's primary website at www.ebikes.ca  

The motor uses the common Higo Z910 motor cable that is widely used on low power ebikes, using a hall and phase pinout that is consistent with other ebike and scooter motors from Bafang.  But we can't provide handholding support for figuring out and tuning the motor with 3rd party motor controllers. That would be on you. 

Unfortunately not. The motor hub is not designed to split in half down the middle to allow the insertion of a solid puncture-proof tire, it must be used with pneumatic tires. We've run into very few problems of flat tires given the thickness of the tread but if this is a worry around certain jobsites with lots of nails and staples around, we recommend simply installing slime inside the inner tube. That will ensure that most punctures will heal and seal themselves without any loss of air.

By default, we ship the Loadrunner controller with a 6 kph (3.7 mph) top speed in forwards, and 2 kph (1.3 mph) in reverse which we found most appropriate.  

However, these limits can be changed with the Phaserunner software suite to be higher or lower if desired. With field weakening it is possible to go up to 10 kph (6 mph) with a 36V pack if you like to move at a jogging pace.

The 18V device with powertool batteries allows you to quick swap with charged packs and not have any downtime. But if you don't have spare batteries, then the charge time will depend on the speed of your powertool charger(s).