Hope for a speedy recovery mate so you’re good to go for esk8con!
Hmmmm bad luck streak continues.
Closer examination of the motors today:
As you can see it got banged up pretty bad. The working theory is that something happened to the motor that then propagated to esc, popping something maybe. So that one side was bad.
We tested a good motor with the bad side of the esc and it still couldn’t spin the motor.
So threw in a new esc, everything ran fine first time when I was testing to make sure it’d solve the issue. Bad motor also didn’t run on the good esc.
Unplugged everything and started routing everything to be buttoned up. Re ran detection it was fine. Ran hall sensor detection kept failing and motor was making really weird sounds.
Upon closer inspection I found I had crossed one of the phases. One each on the wrong side. So fixed that. Hit the power button and poor up in flames it went 
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So, no working board right now…
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Noooo! That sucks man.
Alright one month later we back up and running. Yesterday I was able to take it out and push it hard been a while since I could do that confidently, didn’t push it to the fullest potential, but was decent.
So, what all happened, we put in a new controller that I got from @tomiboi. Had a bit of funkiness with a watchdog boot fault. So, reflashed FW and all that jazz. After having ridden the Super Spine I actually ended up wanting even more lean, but found myself bottoming out on the rear brackets. So, I chopped them similar to what I had done on the front. But it still doesn’t quite turn like a spine, I think it’s because of how dropped it is with the 3Links. Put on two new motors as well.
I forgot how much ankle pain I can get from my front foot but using this board. I’ve finally found that it’s due to the weird binding position I had so, fixed that as well.
I took the board out to a gokart track and was able to take it up to 48mph so not bad but not my personal best on this board. Dealing with such high speeds I think I need to increase the braking power at high speeds.
Put on the BRPs here they’re ok and definitely have their advantages but I’m just not that comfortable on them yet. The gokart track was not in the best of shapes and so I found myself skipping and sliding due to imperfections on the surface. I also had to sand down these wobbly 4 inchers.
And here is a comparison of the turning radius to a spine.
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Should measure that radius with a tape and I’ll try compare
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Not a bad idea, next time I’m out I’ll try and get that measurement. You didn’t drop it all the way though right cause of that double stack?
You need to get the inward mounted bracket for the front radius rods so you can drop the deck to lowest setting and not lose steer. The lower you go the more steer you get with the inward mounted bracket.
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Yeah Ive gone as low as I can go. Initially dropped 15mm but now only 10.
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Ah so that’s how you’re doing it. I must’ve missed that update.
Doesn’t actually look that low though?
Yeah mine is as low as it will go on the front now. Lower than in that pic.
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Was it deck/motor clearance that was stopping you from just flipping the front mounted standard bracket?
My motors are mounted out the front for better clearance. I didn’t like how low to the ground they got when inward mounted.
I’ve had close calls for sure
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Tas scrapes his front mounts if there’s any sort of bump in the road. I’d rather them out the front because of this!
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Probably easier for cable management too. I wonder if the mount version I have gives a bit more clearance.
We should put in some magnesium strips, then it’ll look like F1 lol. I should grab a shot of underneath.
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