Ok, so despite some setbacks my goal this weekend was to have a rolling chassis and here it is!!!
If you look closely at the deck you’ll see it has 2 sets of screw holes - it is recycled from an earlier board, so I’ll have to fill the empty holes at some point. Or not.
The setbacks were that I removed a feature from the outer rim and in doing so I didn’t notice that the air valve opening (which was dependent) got removed, so I printed the part first in black, then more of the midnight blue came in so I printed it again - all the time not noticing that there was no hole for the tube valve.
So 5 hours later a new print of the part.
The new tubes came in and hold air, so we are fully rolly.
Next up I went to order batteries. I’ve been buying these Lishen’s from LiIon wholesale because they are super cheap and high capacity, but only 12A (which is actually perfect for this project since beaches are flat I’ll never need more than 60A) But they are out of stock.
Amazingly these Molicels are only slightly more expensive, higher capacity and a whopping 45A, so I immediately ordered a set. However, they are too nice for this board - I want to transplant them into my daily driver.
Back story, I ride with a friend, and since I DIY and he off the shelf’s I can usually easily out power and/or out distance him just by making subtle upgrades to my board. However, his last board is both a better hill climber and has more range than my board (his is thanes, mine is 6" pneumies). I was going to let this go because I don’t really care (I might care about the range thing, but we’re only talking a couple of miles - mine does 20, his probably does 22) but with the above Molicel’s I could dominate once again!
So now I have a much more complicated project because I have to transplant the Molicels into the old board and then take the old cells and put them in the new board. Normally this would be easy, just swap the pack across, but I mount each P pack to the rails, and the ralis are different widths between this board and the Daily Driver. So it’s much more complicated than it should be.
I’ll keep you apprised as to how this goes.
Next up the electronics box and I am working on a no-spot-welding implementation of the battery pack, so I’ll outline more details in a subsequent post.