Thinking about wether I should cut through the enclosure to expose the heatsink on this dual escape. like this example here:
I’m torn between clean case, and no esc exposure to the ground, and the fact that this heatsink seems designed to be exposed. i’m hoping i won’t be too worried about thermals on a last mile board. but I could be wrong.
My biggest blocker now is deciding things… sigh
20700s 12s3p fit pretty close width wise. and sanyo 20700b is what I think I want in my second build, so this allows me to buy all the same batteries.
70mm long cells however are kinda tight length wise.
The Escapes with the heat sink are kinda bulkier than just old school focboxes. I guess it’s the heat sink.
the curve in the enclosure near the rear exit limits some of the length.
practicing tight fit stuff is part of what I need to do for the second build tho. so much 
Mock up of stagger stack idea. Holders need some improvements likely.
Does staggering actually help?
In a lot of cases no. In my target for my second build it will help fit trading width for height for 12s6p 20700s. In this build it would help fit 12s3p 21700.
Still Deciding which batteries for both builds at the same time and then deciding wether to practice a stagger stack on this build.
Posted this to a friend. but days later the same thoughts running through my head.
god damnit. my head is all over the place on batteries.
my two projects are my tayto and my prototipo.
do same batteries for both to get one order of one type?
fit 50% more range and power into prototipo than 756wh 70amp 10s pack. at least 20% more range.
sanyho 20700b 12s6p in the prototipo would do that but requires staggered stack to fit width wise. and probably a riser for a few mm extra height. that’d be interesting and hard and novel.
if I go for that do i do a similar thing on the tayto just to practice…
in the tayto 2{0,1}700s are tight length wise if i do 12s3p. could do 12s2p but then I’m not practicing or doing anything the same as second board. starting to think i shouldn’t…
then alternatively just… get the P42As… do 12s5p in the prototipo… all the amps. 20% more range. ( than 10s5p 20700b stock )
and 12s2p in the tayto. 90 amps??? p42as are crazy…
those last options keep it simpler space wise and the only goal I compromise on is hitting 50% more range on the prototipo. trading it for 20%.
idk what help i need… probably just moral support… and decisiveness. 
instead I just go off and do maintenance on my other board. but I need to break through and get this moving. at the same time trying to be ok with not moving it forward.
Martha Faulker.
I did some soul searching. and some plastic mockups… and blah. I think I kicked the idea of trying to do 12s6p 21700 in my prototipo build. I mocked up 10mm spacers and I htink I could make it work, but I’m making things too hard. so no fancy 2nd board means no fancy techniques to practice int his build either. it’s probably enough I’ve challenged myself to build two batterie and two boards. if I’m any good I can get special later. .
So I’m choosing 12s5p for that 2nd build and 12s2p for this tayto build with P42A for both.
was torn between 40Ts and P42A… but I’ve adopted the hype and selected the later. particularly for the 12s2p tayto pack which should leave me space to work with.
P42a are here.
in addition to a take apart pack so I can practice some nickel welding before moving on to the real dealz.
Thanks @ahrav for helping source cells and the practice cells!!
Doood… so pumped ferrrr it
did most of the take apart pack for practice welds:
I’m so slow. I’m getting utterly impatient with myself. 
Anyhow some progress!
figuring out my spotwelder on some practice cells. getting feedback from battery builders club.
These are probably still too hot, will keep tuning/practicing.
Yeah. this thread has a bunch of. “I did that one”. in it. I’m not being a trend setter here.
hopefully I can at least live up to the quality of my predecessors
man. I’ve done no progress on learning to spot weld. feeling so slow. 
pretty sure @ZachTetra already built the exact layout I wanna do.
I could have just paid him to do it again. but for some reason… i want to do it myself.
but I also just like riding. and that breaks enough stuff that I keep doing fixing. and tire changing. 
Dear Skatan please let me finish this build in less than a year. Thanks.
still dreaming of pulling this off.
updating my plans from 12s2p to 12s3p.
plastic bits are just there filling space to figure out fitment.
ltt smart BMS will go on top, another unusual choice.
got it. don’t weld to center on neg, might interfere with internal connection to can.
