Yeah building a budget AT probably just isnât the greatest idea. Personally I probably wouldnât build an exclusive AT for less than 2k. You could get a decent street board for that amount though
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@ShutterShock I know , im not really looking for a top of the line AT board to take me into the jungle, I just want a board for city streets that will be suber smooth over bad roads or potholes.
originally I was going to buy the wowgo AT hub motors which can be seen on there AT board, they were offering 270 for wheels/motors, esc, and remote, which was an amazing deal. pity that its discontinued 
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Ah gotcha. Well you could check out the meepo city rider like Bill suggested, or you could take a stab at something like the Backfire Ranger (slightly higher price point). Have heard good things about that.
The reality is if you try to do a cheap drive system like (very bad example) the diyeboard AT drive, it will probably just end up breaking and youâll spend more money anyway.
The DIY route, you will want good batteries, expensive. The drive system is expensive, the wheels arenât too bad, speed controller(s) can be budget but I donât know if it is possible for $650 for a trustworthy board.
My advice is save some more money and do a lot more reading on here and maybe pick up some deals from people on here selling things if you wanna do DIY
In the process of gutting my dead boosted, Iâve found myself stuck disconnecting the power wires from the battery.
Here are two photos showing the wires:
Can anyone give me some instructions on how to safely disconnect the battery from the board?
Are you trying to preserve the wires? I donât see any reason why you canât just cut them, one at a time obviously.
I havenât disassembled a boosted before, so it is possible that there is a connector in there somewhere but we canât tell from these photos
Arenât boosted batteries swappable on the board?
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Is that how that works? 
I really have no clue. Do I need special scissors or something?
I want to preserve the wires to make an xt90 connection for a new battery pack
Not for the v1
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Oh haha yeah usually you want to use wire cutters for something like that, it will ruin your scissors if they arenât strong enough.
Gotcha.
If you want to use the battery for something else you could cut the wires inbetween the board and the battery, so you have enough room to solder onto the board side, or if you donât care about this battery, you could cut them right smack up against the battery but it would make it pretty useless if you were to try and sell it or something.
Do you understand what Iâm getting at?
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This battery is toast, although the BMS seems fine đ¤ˇ
So to be super clear, any regular scissor (granted itâs strong enough to cut the wire) will work?
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Not necessarily, I had those hubs and I can say they are pretty bad. The wiring in the hub is horrible and they overheat, thatâs probably why they discontinued them
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Okay I see. Could be a dead cell or something who knows.
Shears could work, like thicc ones. I would personally use wire cutters because I have them. Scissors is pushing it. They may get dulled in the spot that you cut with and it might be difficult, just make sure you only cut one wire at a time. Depends on how good the scissors are too.
It really depends on how hard the wire is, if it was soft silicon wire, might be easier. Hard chinese quality wire would be waaay harder, probably not possible with scissors. At this AWG anyway, looks like 10 or 12. Obviously something like 20 or 22 would be easy to cut with scissors.
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Thanks for the advice, they seem to be slightly thinner than 10awg (is there an 11awg? Lol), which my scissors cut with only a little difficulty
Iâm gonna wear a rubber cooking mit or something⌠Im a little paranoid about shocking myself if you canât tell 
E: Does it matter which I cut first? Negative vs Positive?
Doesnât matter, there should not be any chance of you shocking yourself, easiest way if you are worried about it is to just cut one side, whichever you want, then tape it up to cover the exposed conductor, and then cut the other one.
Donât quote me on it but your body should not even be conductive enough for the voltage from that battery to travel through it. But definitely donât touch the leads together.
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Sounds good! Thank you so much
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I always check out video reviews on Youtube, I would check out some and see if you like how it rides. 
Daniel Kwan has a good one, Press Reset did a review, and Ronnie Sarmiento
Anytime 
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come on you know what they say about going with blackâŚ
Already said but just want to reiterate main thing is donât cut both leads together do it one at a time. Good chance youâre cutting it with something conductive and will short through your cutting tool this will get hot and scary pretty fast and the shorting is bad for the cell/battery health.
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Generally speaking:
Hubs are cheap and easy for beginners to set up because trucks, motors, mounts, wheels, and any adapters needed are all together. Because of this, theyâre not really quality components due to being squished together. They canât handle heat and therefore wonât be as powerful as other setups (hummie hubs excluded).
You have 3 options:
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Do some research and accept that itâs going to be more expensive and take longer to make. Make a beautiful board you can upgrade with time.
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Take your budget and spend it all on a half decent prebuilt like meepo or boosted. Note that you wonât be able to upgrade this much and you will hit your limit and be wanting more umph in a year or less.
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Get intimidated by all the knowledge and terms you donât know and give up. This option sucks and results in no fun for you. Donât pick this one.
Once you have chosen option 1, start here.
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