I started this draft on 10/14/2024
A lot has happened since I last updated this thread, the main thing though was having a seizure which I can personally confirm is NOT radical, more info on that here:
I’m not allowed to drive for a while and will need some way to get around when it’s wet out.
Onto the focus of this project:
Upgrades people, upgrades!
Trying to waterproof, refine and BMS-ify my spare parts board.
First I swapped out the L-faster trucks, wheels and pulleys in favor of Matrix 2s, rockstar 2s, and 62t pulleys which I really can’t remember where they came from.
Next big thing was wire routing, mine wasn’t deadly or immediately unsafe but just wasn’t very well thought out and had a lot of ways it could’ve failed, with a bunch of Tessa tape, zip ties, and cable management sleeves. It’s much improved, not great but improved.
But I still didn’t like it so I ripped it all off and tried again with a DIY footpad with a wire channel out of some spare (unnecessarily thick) rubber sheet and some contact cement.
I cut the sheet to size, secured the rubber with contact cement, routed the wires, secured the wires with some kapton tape and a bottle of isopropyl alcohol to press them down and filled the channel with silicone sealant.
The only grip tape I have on hand is vicious grip which I’d rather not use on any of my commuter boards. Till then my workmanship(or lack thereof) can be appreciated by all.
BMS-ifying my lipos has been a roller coaster, I’ve started setting up my wiring probably 10 different times and torn it down to restart every time.
First iteration:
But I didn’t like the way the balance leads on the lipos were kinda jank coming out of the pack so I tried to get them aligned as well as possible and covered them in silicone.
I got to this point with the BMS-ification before getting more upgrades! This time I got my hands on a brand new, top of the line, unobtanium, dead guy hamstring!
My clavicle is now secured to my shoulder which is indeed pretty fuckin radical.
I’m also in a sling which is substantially less radical so this is gonna sit in the drafts here for a WHILE.
Slowly getting back into it, 4 weeks post-op and I’ve been assembling small bits and pieces of this. I’ve continued on the battery, secured the balance wiring pretty well and covered it in fishpaper
I also got the series connector made and labeled.
Next I got the BMS wiring almost finished before realizing I don’t have any more XT60s, I could use an XT30 but with the frequency I’ll be plugging in and unplugging this, I’d rather use something like an XT60H to alleviate wire strain over repeated plugging and unplugging
BMS side/soldering:
Wire routing/charge port:
At the moment of truth, testing the BT connection and balance wiring:
As a white guy with long black hair who hasn’t shaven and occasionally even wears white T-shirts, I can confidently say:
Wooooooooo!
Quick note about the trucks+prototipo mounts:
These mounts secure with 2 fasteners per mount, 1 M6x10mm which acts as a grub screw on the hangar and 1 M8x25mm which threads into the M8 hole in the matrix 2s that was originally designed to hold the MBS handbrake system.
The holes for the M8 screws were drilled just a bit off from the actual screw hole.
After a bunch of filling and more Dremel activity, I was able to get the M8 screws to thread in properly.
You may be wondering what the hell I’m doing with bent L-brackets that were originally designed for holding furniture together. I’m making taillight mounts!
Originally I had planned to mount them pointing straight behind me before I realized that these lights are much too bright for that, I haven’t tested while moving yet but I suspect they’ll be plenty bright pointed towards the ground.
Now since this is already a massive wall of crazy person ramblings I’m going to post this now and plan to update in smaller, more cohesive posts in the future.