Just curious, what does that icon on the deck mean?
A reminder of my spirtual past and present, a wild journey of magic numbers, merkabahs and other fascinating stuff. My nickname also has its heritage there 
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On high power flashlights the body is usually used as a heat sink. Without heatsink and in a thermoform enclosure things might get interesting fast. 
Very nice though, watching with interest.
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I basically sew off the first section of the flashlight, there’s at least some metal left 
let’s see, I can always dim over pwm to reduce temp.
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hey how is that 4.20 dual? is it giving you problems?
or is that the 6.6
It’s the 6.6 dual mini and so far it’s been reliable 
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Head light control via PWM: Check!
Switch lights on and off via brake sequence on standstill: Check!
Now I’ll add some fuses to add more trust and then its testing time
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Damn, I just blew the led driver and the led, idiot me swapped input and output facepalm 
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It’s working
atm I got a 350mA driver, maybe it’s already sufficient, I’ll test. The replacement for the 1A version is on its way nonetheless brake lights can be switched on separately to save power when headlights are not needed. As I said before, its done with a brake sequence, so it can be done with any remote. Each click must not be more than a second apart of each other, otherwise counting starts again. 4 times-> Only brakelights on/off, 6 times->all lights on/off
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Really clever way to control it. Won’t be that easy for who uses active braking or reverse though
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I increased the values a bit to be sure But its working dance and I put it all together again. The LED strip got an epoxy coating to seal it plus I added a backup for unforeseen resets of the arduino or the board so the state of light is stored in EEPROM.
With this addon my board is finally 100% complete. Its not perfect but I like it a lot. The coating streetside looks like shit if you look closer but from far its quite nice The whole thing is a black hotglue mayhem but I’m proud of it. Now I have time for the eKickboard tranform and one of @evoheyax Rocket decks is also on its way (btw, tracking no.? 
) I’ll take some cool final “product” pictures when its sunny and I’m out on the bike paths.
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Now that I have a spotwelder (bought it for the new boards battery) I ordered 12 new cells since the deck itself fits a 12s4p in the same volume of 12s3p with NESE when spotwelded If anyones interested in really cheap used NESE pm me
on that small board is gonna be a lot of power! nice…I thought you anted to keep it lighter since you travel a lot with it.
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weight is not a problem, as @Grievor stated, its my gym handling/size is more important.
Actually (after some thinking) it is around 200gr lighter since an empty NESE weighs 125 gr (->750gr total, 12 cells -> 560gr) I also want some modularity so I’ll go for connectors between 2s4p groups to be able to split it in 6 <100Wh packs
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Lol, I didn’t this time 
the probability of flying is quite low so I just connected the with triple layered nickle, if I’ll fly I buy some cells and use the 12s3p neses I still have