I figured this is a promising concept but it’s waiting for someone to do correctly – with the battery mounted UNDER the deck.
But let me not get ahead of myself. This was a long journey and I want to tell the story from the beginning. For the most part, this will be a compilation of my Pictures and Nothing Else posts.
BTW, I’m also shamelessly stealing @ducktaperules’ build thread format.
Back in 2020, I got this idea to design a mostly but not entirely flat (MBNEF™) deck. The idea was that it would be easy to install electronics (it was) and hopefully if I add some side wings, it will still be reasonably comfortable to ride (it wasn’t). Also, full disclosure, I didn’t really want to fiddle with modelling a concave in Fusion.
Anyway, this eventually came out as Granda Plata (meaning “big flat” in Esperanto), which you can read more about here.
Added a charge port. Having a charge port is way more convenient than not having one. I designed a riser to hold an XT30. I also added a little hinged cover that only got snapped off less than 25 times so far.
The thing is that the fuse can then easily get mechanically damaged from vibrations and blow.
And if that happens while you’re braking, your ESC will have nowhere to put the energy from the motors, voltage will go up and the ESC may not like that.
Even worse, there may not be any visible ESC damage and you may think you just need to replace the fuse.
But then you do; you turn the ESC on to test it aaand…
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I designed a riser to hold an XT30. I also added a little hinged cover that only got snapped off less than 25 times so far.
