After I smashed the motor on my brother’s last build, I decided I didn’t want to rebuild the board and would rather make a new one instead with upgraded components.
Goals for the build were:
- reliability
- dual drive
- water resistance
- price
For riding in wet conditions pneumatics were required, and to have the motors protected against yours truly smashing them against a curve, a carver deck with raised mounts was in order. My brother really liked the look of Lacroix’s prototipo deck:
But with the board discontinued and everyone and their dog wanting one, prices were stupid high, so we decided to build something similar using Tomiboi’s 35" Honey Badger MTB deck.
An included enclosure + inserts and bolts made building this thing a breeze
Other parts include:
- Self-built 12s5p P28A battery with LLT BMS
- Moon Luna 350 trucks with 0 degrees in the rear, +15 at the front. (Total is 50 front 35 rear)
- Rockstar 2s with 6" Evolve wheels
- Idea motor mounts
- 2nd-hand 151kv reacher motors from @KaramQ
- 18T and 62T pulleys from Radium
- Maker-X DV6 Pro for the power button and auto-shutdown features
- Sabre Dynamics ESC heat-sink
- Sabre Dynamics Panel Mount Pro
- Sabre Dynamics light mounts, custom (Will show later, thx @SabreDynamics )
- Davega X
- Puck remote
- Duck handle
This enclosure doesn’t have much space, and since I really wanted to go with 12s for charger compatibility, I opted for 18650 cells. I’m traveling at the moment so I’ll share battery pics later, but it’s a perfect fit in the enclosure The enclosure is thicker in the middle, so the BMS lays on top of the battery.
The ESC has the top taken off so that I could solder short wires to the MR-60 connectors in the panel mount. The MR60s can slide out of the panel, which is pretty bad because then
A) Water can seep in
B) If you’re plugging in your motors the MR60s will just get pushed inside the enclosure
On the upside, it means I could actually push them from the inside into the panel mount once they were soldered; I just need to hold them still when plugging in the motors from the outside.
The included bolts for the heat-sink were slightly too long, but with a thermal pad in place they’re perfect.
Charge port and ESC are fused. Auxiliary XT-90 for range extender packs will come later. 12V buck for lights will come later. I’m busy traveling and had to get this build done in a matter of days lol.
The ESC button is not latching, and has a long press-distance, but it does trigger the ESC to turn on and off instantly. I prefer a hold-style like Stormcores have, but we’ll see if it leads to any issues.
As you can see from the clock I finished this build at 4am, so I didn’t have time to even test ride it. (But I know the deck feels nice, has more concave then you’d expect, and the trucks are great since I know them well) Got a DRV fault once when booting up, but it seems to work, so I’ll let my brother take some prettier daytime pictures and go on a ride with it while I’m away traveling.
Thanks for reading, updates will come to get the front and rear lights working
Also shoutout to @EreTroN for helping this deck reach me, you and @tomiboi saved me a bunch of money, thank you!