Beautiful SS Mini gear drive has arrived as well as some gear from @_EboardSolutions including the enclosure.
I have been lately in a small dilema. While the 21700 cells worked beautifully on my last MTB setup they don’t fit so well with EboardSolutions enclosure and Lush machine 3d deck.
Therefore, I made the decision to use 18650 cells in 12S4P configuration, with Sony Murata 2.6 Ah and 25 A continuous. These give me also around 100 A continuous for the pack and similar capacity, besides fitting much better cause it allows using two layers on the pack:
The 6x2 nylon tires from China have finally arrived and I made a sprint this weekend to finish everything so I finally have a first version of it.
Everything went according to the plan except the battery pack which is instead a 12S4P with Sony / Murata VTC5A. The BMS is a Daly which is very compact, handling up to 5A for charging.
The motive of this change was that I couldn’t fit the 21700 on the @EboardSolutions enclosure.
This 18650 pack should give 10.4 Ah of capacity and over 100 A continuous discharge.
The @3DServisas 275 hangers were wide enough to give wheel clearance for this kicktail deck. Obviously this deck got higher than desired but this doesn’t bother me much when riding, which actually feels great.
Only thing I don’t really like so much is that this deck has too much tail and the front wheels get off the floor too easily…
The acceleration and brakes feel out of this world and the direct feel of the gear drive reinforces this sensation.
While this build was a bit experimental, specially due to the kicktail thing, it rides really well and I’m very happy with it. I find the 6’’ tires were a good choice, while it would be hard to do offroad I can ride it on dirt roads with no problems…
I like it a lot. One can see it’s a strong and stiff board, good for esk8. It’s also wide and have a nice concave, acommodates the feet really well.
The only thing I dislike is that is very easy to make a wheelie, specially if you have enough power… perhaps it would be possible to move the rear truck a bit back to have less leverage.
Decided to get lower kv motors to get the speed down from 75 to 50 km/h and have more torque.
After a long time waiting, the 6384 130kv APS motors arrived last week…
Also took the opportunity to make the enclosure more water proof. Thanks to @b264 for the blueprint.
Tried some GX12 plugs for the sensor wires but unfortunately don’t have enough space for them so ended up with rubber grommets.
Charging plug also changed to CNLINKO LP16 from @EboardSolutions.
Added Flipsky antispark switch to control the DV6.
Never wanted an AT board until I saw this setup. Did not think downhill deck was possible with pneumatics until i saw these trucks. I’m inspired. Awesome build!
First of all let me start by saying dammmm, that is an awesome build! I’m planning on converting my urethane board to something like you did here. Manly because of the shitty asphalt in my city. I wanted to pic you brain about a bunch of things. How wide is the deck? Would it be possible to get enough clearance with 230 or 240 hangers and risers? How much range do you get with the wheels and battery combo? I use the same enclosure in my current build, and I was also looking at those Aliexprress wheels.
I am looking of upgrading wheels + pulleys, truck hangers at the minimum.
I currently run 10s3p Molicel P26A and get about 23km range on Caguamas with singl6374 Flipsky motors with flipsky FSESC 4.12
