It’s a lot of patience lol, gotta be in the right frame of mind to get it right. I still see all the flaws but im glad I didn’t go the lazer cutting route on this. I kinda like the flaws. Naming the board - Its definitely blue koi now.
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Thanks! All good man, I appreciate the generous offer though. Someone should definitely snap up that complete from you - I would just tear it apart anyway 
i can’t let anything alone. First thing i do with any prebuilt is tear them down and modify them
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Also, when ur done using my tools, just put them back on top of the tool chest, I’ll clean the adhesive gunk off if you missed it.
I know! I’m the same. This is why we can’t have nice things. It’s a lifestyle.
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I hide extra iso, acetone, and keyboard blaster when certain builders are building at my place.
IS THAT WHY I CAN ONLY EVER FIND THOS CHEAP BBQ NAPKINS?!? Where are the shop towels!!
I don’t think i can not modify my every single thing. I also have few superstitions but one that i keep getting reinforced - never say out loud that i like a product or tool or it will immediately get discontinued or changed in a subtle and terrible way making it both useless and ugly. I like to think that im a rational person in most things but i have too many anecdotal reinforcements of this one… or im getting old or both 
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That’s funny, my wife stole the last package of microfiber towels and put them in her shop with my ca glue. Are we married? I think if you hide my supplies it’s equivalent to a proper proposal. Like common law. Might have to fight with BillGordon for my empire of dirt - he is me and skaterdads stepchild iirc though the details are foggy
So I couldn’t find the pole pair count in my searches fsr so i took the hubs apart to count magnets… then found the pole count on here with an unrelated search lol. Some times i just can’t.
So I decided to battle harden the hub while i had it open with some epoxy paste. Messed up and it started to cook off a little faster than i wanted it to but i was able to recover and get it on clean. Just a smidge of silicone grease on everything for corrosion resistance and put it all back together
Decided to torque the nuts back on incase I forgot to do it later and the nut started stripping. Gonna have to order some grade 5 nuts before i put it back together as i don’t trust the ones i have are anything but garbo steel
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I feel like they might get a bit toasty with that epoxy jacket!
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Probably, was fun to do and i have little faith in their ability to move heat in that direction anyway. My intuition says most of the heat is moving through the axle to the truck and nothing i did will effect that.
My other hubs (various no name and meepo stuff from three years ago) all performed terribly. The meepo v3 i had did crappy then cooked and the no name (orange?) ones i had that were hardened actually lasted despite the hell i put them through. The orange ones are still on a pintail build that gets lots of summer use and is going strong. Anecdotal
I saw some pics around of the stator windings getting loose and getting shorted so ill take the heat death here. Going to be low amps - like 20-30 motor amps but i do wish they had temp sensors so i could set an over-temp fault for em
Still need to select a vesc, i want shfi but dont want to buy trampa or ubox. Makerx dv6? Idk
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Good point with the heat dispersion.
If i were you i’d be trying to get my hands on a xenith or unity
I don’t have any experience with either, what’s your reasoning?
Small, proven, should be able to pick up for a good price second hand. Or even 2 x OG focbox if you’re happy to go with a loop key.
I don’t trust any of the new maker x stuff
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On the fence with makerx, focbox and xenith are rare birds lately though. Seems like the dv6 is hit or miss.
Atm im in no rush so thats nice. battery supplies are a month out and i had some local guys ask for help making their batteries as well as two other projects and the high voltage long range boat im building. Need to start a thread for that one soon or it will be complete before i post
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If you can find an old dv6 (no switch), those are bullet proof
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Please be meaning an actual boat
Nope, just commentary on the lacroix ss deck angles. Lacroix ss deck and enclosure, matrix 3 trucks, 4gs drives, skp solo and 18s8p 50s battery. Getting really good range and efficiency so far and just need to do the ascetics and some led stuff but it’s going slow but steady. Almost have the graphic figured out as i want to leave as much of the red flecked carbon fiber top exposed as possible but also cover up the logos- not a fan of logos
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I’ve done sHFI with with stormcore, xenith, and d100s. I suspect that the success of HFI / sHFI has more to do with the motors and tuning than the ESC hardware. The trampa hardware is the only one that is actually close to silent AFAIK, because it has phase shunts.
For HFI to work well you need a motor that has a high enough ld/lq induction difference compared to the overall inductance. @Deodand did a good video on this and he says anything less than 15% is maybe not going to work so well (ratio of Ld/Lq induction : total induction)
If someone else has run detection on the loaded hub motors, they might be so kind as to share the ld/lq inductance and the overall motor inductance. @poastoast @Venom121212
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