Found the solution 2 issues:
First the motor connection was not seating all the way used some dialectic Grease to get a solid connection.

Second because the 2017 is a non geared direct drive motor the P1 setting has to be 46 here are the settings I used. Hopefully this can help someone else with the 2017 or 2018 rad wagon


LIM: 72
DIM: 26
UNT: 3
P1: 46
P2: 6
P3: 1
P4: 0
P5:15
C1: 7 (1 for OEM sensor)
C2: 0
C3: 1
C4: 0
C5: 06
C6: 3
C7: 1
C8: 0
C9: 0
C10: N
C11: 0
C12: 4
C13: 0 (this is for regen braking. I havent played with this too much but Bolton tech said the DD motor does not regen. Your results may vary 0= OFF)
C14: 2
L1:0
L2:0
L3:1
L4:5

Thanks for the response.

Is your response rad and controller specific? Or just general wiring knowledge?

The display does power on, the buttons do work and change the settings, and the throttle does sometimes turn the wheel with one pulse but then the error appears.

Given that I am very confident that the power and ground are correct. Fairy confident that the tx/rx wires(not sure what color they are) are correct. Not sure what the last wire is for.

Is that the wheel motion pulse sensor?

How much "smarts" are in the display?

Seems like most of the smarts would be in the controller box connected to the battery because the wires going to the display are certainly low amperage.

Hi All,
I'm new to posting to the forum but been lurking for sometime.

I purchased the Bolton controller about 8 months ago and just installed it about a week ago.

I am getting the motor not detected error.

Are there specific settings that would cause this error or that I could change to test?

Has anyone been successful in installing it in the Rad Wagon 1 and what steps did you take?

Currently because the new display connector is different from the old harness I hardwired the display matching the wire colors. I would assume tx/rx communicate is over 2 of the wires power/gnd on 2 not sure what the 5th wire is for.