I donāt know if that belt is too tight, but same thing as with the loose one. Sure itās higher pitch but both have the same soundā¦ Itās just the wobbling pulley that I canāt seem to align right!
You might just have to get it as close as possible and just ride it. As long as it isnāt skipping or slipping when youāre riding, the worst it will do is hurt your efficiency and add a bunch of vibrations at high speeds. If you want something more accurate when plugged and played, get a pulley w/ a bearing in it, which will center it on the axle. Youāll probably need new trucks w/ longer axles to do that.
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Yesā¦ Sadly my axles are too short for such a thingā¦
So except the awful sound and vibrations that are not very efficient battery wise, its no big deal and maybe get better after some rides?
It will also wear out everything faster. It isnāt ideal, but you donāt have many options. Maybe someone else has a trick or tip for you, but AFAIK, itās fuck with it until itās good enough, and be prepared to fuck with it again later or replace it.
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The biggest problem now is, how loud it is 
And the fact that it will eventually break is not nice too of courseā¦
Iāve spent the whole day after school (6h) on this and improved literally nothing. Sad that I wasted so much time on it ^^
If @b264 or @BillGordon or someone else knows what I could maybe try, I would be very grateful!!!
Sounds like belt is rubbing something donāt see it on this side though can get vid of all around it while running might be able to see whatās rubbing. A periodic noise will come from inconsistencies in the spinning parts and alignment but sounds like straight rubbing all the time to me too which will create more heat than little skips and a consistent rubbing sound.
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My belts arrived u-shaped and they did quite some noise and vibrations at full rpm. 100km later and only realistically hitting 40km/hr out of the 60 it can do, they smoothed out. Also, your pulleys seem perfectly alligned. Thereās not much more you can do than wear them in a bit
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Alright! Iāll just drive around 
Still waiting for my VESC replacement and battery though
Sounds like the belt is too tight to me
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Who makes enclosures for the Killshot 38?
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still throttling after total reconfig
Is it normal that one side of my board always travels a bit more than the other? Even now, after a 14km ride on mostly flat ground, my right side has almost 200m more registered in rt data page
Yah could just be too tight and or worn bearings in the motor or wheel if you test spin with wheel off can hear just the sound of the motor bearings and parts minus the belts and wheel. But just sounds more like a fairly consistent rub to me than the more inconsistent sound of tooth damage or skipping/slipping.
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Assembled it, and now it is better than before
Still quite loudā¦ But the belts donāt sound like being tortured.
I may be a perfectionist, but I canāt get the two motors aligned to eachotherā¦ Should consider a bracket which connects my motor mounts.
Thanks!
All parts are brand new, since this will be my first esk8 build
It got better now, that I remount everything, but itās still noticeable. Iām very sure itās from the pulleys which wobble, no matter how hard I try to get them 100% perfect. They are perfectly straight, but not center, so when the wheel rotates, the belt jumps up and down a bit.
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Gotcha just did a quick test here too with both my boards and my older sk8 motor sounds pretty terrible even with wheel off, one in vid from torque boards doesnāt sound terrible to me but a bit hard to hear over the vibrations from the board on wood floor it isnāt so loud when actually riding just the high pitch wirring noise really.
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True!
It ll be fine
Although Iām scared how little room there is for walkway borders etcā¦ My motors are pretty close to the ground AND to the deck 
Yah you need surprisingly little ground clearance at least for shorter decks still nice that my first motor mount stuck out further than the motor a bit so would bang up the mount before the motor.
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