Ducati Pro 2 - Electric Scooter Overheating Fix!

Hello everyone, I'm Giacomo from Italy, sorry for my English..

The goal of this tutorial is fix the overheating of Ducati pro 2 electric scooter. This issue is a very problem for this scooter: less a lot of power and can be damage or broken the main board, and that will be very expansive to replace it.

The main board of this scooter is inside the box on bottom of scooter and can't dissipate hot because no holes on this box.

So what can we do?

I did this: replace the plastic cover on bottom with an aluminum plate, and fix the mainboard on it with a thermic paste for a better hot dissipation.

We need a 52*11.5 cm aluminum plate

• drill
• metal saw
• thermic paste
• some screw.

Remove the plastic cover and then remove the main board from this.

After that you have to do a perfect copy of the plastic cover using aluminum plate. So I put the plastic cover on the plate, and I trace the edges and the screw hole with a marker. After that take the saw and remove the metal in excess, and drill the hole.

This is the main step. Because we do all for fix the main board on the plate, and we will use the plate as heatsink.

So replace the screw of mainboard that used for fix the plastic box on it with other more longer. Because we need this long screw for fix mainboard on the plate.

So make the holes for the main board, and after that clean very well the 2 surface.

Put some thermic paste and fix the main board with screw and threadlocker.

The main board have to be as close as possible to the plate.

Ok, now we have to assemble the scooter. I put a little orange rubber on the edge for try to preserve electronics from water and dust.

Ok all done. I did this 2 tests:

BEFORE

1 - Max speed 25km/h for 5km without this mod: lost a lot of power and plastic enclosure was very hot. Power off and power on but no way, need to wait long time in order to cold down the main board. After that, power come back on scooter. I think I was lucky not to burn the main board...

AFTER

2 - Max speed 32km/h for 6km + max speed 25km/h for 4km. No power lost!!! Aluminum enclosure result a little hot under the main board, but no need to wait for cold down. After a few second the aluminum result tepid, not hot.

So! i think this mod is necessary for preserve the electronics on this scooter and for travel fast without any problems during the way.

let me know if you do it too!

thanks and sorry again for my bad English.