I must concur. Brilliant analysis @bourbon_norm. Take evolve/enertion for example. Jason was bagging Jeff out in videos for selling his house to fund his venture as if he was an idiot. With that risk he secured a business with strong foundations. Fully self funded and the products were available for immediate delivery to a very small demographic because he built them with his own money. Jason was not allowed to do that because his wife is the main breadwinner and his venture was viewed as a hobby. The result is a cash starved enterprise reliant on customer risk not his own. One is a business and one is not.
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Gonna ask this question in as many places as possible so forgive me 
If I have a motor that requires 24V but I connect it to a pack that outputs 19V will I be able to get enough power and torque out of the motor for it to be usable?
How low of a voltage is too low?
Oh there are a number of factors to consider. Whats the kv rating of the motor? Is the battery a 24v unit that is damaged? What gearing are you using?
This is a very simple calculator that is a great way to start.
http://calc.esk8.it/
ugh this is driving me crazy how do i fix this shit lol
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I love that. How do I fix this shit lol
Your wheels are to close to the mounts. The belt is running at an angle. You need to either shift your clamp mount in by a couple of mm or move your wheel out by the same.
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So the motor is a hub motor that through some calculations on the esk8.builders forum the kv can be worked out to be 30.45
The batteries are an A123 26650 pack in a 6s5p config
Its the fixed v5 so not an option to move mounts closer on the trucks. You need to get some speed rings and adjust the wheel position so that both pulleys are perfectly aligned. Do you have enough spacers on the axle to let the wheel run freely at full nut torque?
Just giving my suggestion here, why not trip a bit off the side of your belt (hot wire cutter)?or you could put some tack in the grooves of the pulley beside the wheel to prevent the belt teeth from moving towards it.
yeah there’s one spacer and one speed ring on each side. The one side I got going straight but this one is being a butthead…Is it ok to have 2 speed rings/different spacer ratios on either side or will that fuck up my ride?
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I love your enthusiasm my friend but a hot wire cutter will not cut a kevlar belt. Its just an alignment issue which is easily solvable.
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Fair enough, Ive never really worked with belts before but I figured I might give my two cents in while im here
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You probably have the mounts not perfectly centred on the trucks. You should have exactly the same amount of hanger showing on both sides. No drama if you don’t but that will explain the discrepancy. A couple of speed rings should fix it up and there is no way on earth you would notice the difference.
I have a set of those BKB mounts that were super on sale (8.50/piece) but they don’t fit on the TB218’s. I think I could get em wth some filing work, should I just do that and ditch the V5s?
I did measure the space and it’s ALMOST perfectly centered.
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As for you my friend well I would be inputting the specs of my gear into that calc I linked with the correct voltage and gear ratio of 1:1 and have a looksea. In my humble opinion though 6s on hubs at 30kv will barely get you rolling.
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I don’t like these mounts I’m going to try to fuck with the BKB ones I think
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That made me laugh dude. All my builds are ALMOST
Stick with them. Literally all you need is a couple of rings in there and it will be fiiiiiiiiine!!!
The thing is when I add another ring the belt doesn’t wander onto the wheel anymore, but then there’s just this tiny bit of lip where the belt is barely hanging over the wheel pulley, like in the posts before.
Can you move the motor pulley to compensate? Once you get them dead straight there is no more trouble. Tell me you didn’t loctite the pulleys on yet?