and here I was thinking about 2-3 year button cells and high efficiency lower output LEDs. The ones you’re talking about can run off mains power? Wild.
I think it takes a tiny bit of rotational energy and turns it into light. No mains, no cell.
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Ohhhh. That makes more sense.
this will run into different sort of issue down the line, even if the wheel balance isn’t throw off by this right from the start
no, there is no stored power source anywhere. energy is generated from the rotation of the wheel on the axle to create enough current to power the led. that’s how the glow wheels work, and that’s why the wheel doesn’t glow in low rpm, only above certain rpm.
the wheel itself also have tiny bit of resistance to roll, the glowing led contraption is kinda neat, if only it doesn’t have those two limitations.
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wirelessly chargeable wheels would eliminate the need for harvesting rotational energy and interfering with rolling resistance but you’d need a highly symmetrical component layout for wheel balancing. likely super complicated too.
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dang, we already need to charge our board and remote. now we need to charge our wheels too? 
no thanks, i will take the boring wheels
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not sure why I’m interested in this I don’t ride at night and don’t have so much as a shredlight on any of my boards right now. lol
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Brian is right. The amount of rotational energy that is turned into light is negligible. I will seriously look into what is required to make a wheel with LEDs. I will start a new thread to see if there others can give us insight into what is required.
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look into how glowwheels are made, then u will have ur answer
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Love my Mad Wheelz. They are heaven on my tynee explorer. They made an already comfy ride even comfier. I was just riding at my local park on smooth pavement, blasting some tunes. Didn’t even realize I was doing 28mph at one point. I ran over a few things and things and I barely felt it.
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tuned trucks and soft wheels will land you here every time. lol
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Congrats
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Yo bud, do you get the carpet and the bench and the window with this, or is it just the wheels?
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I got to try some of these on the track and they had better grip than pneumatic wheels, wtf material are these ? Because they are def not urethane lol
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They fucking grip, not sure its better than pneumatics, but the difference isn’t much. I think its more how they conform to the varying surfaces than it is the material.
I’ve pretty much retired my pneumatics cause of them.
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These were around like 4 years ago
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But will they still grip dusty roads and parking lots as well as pneumies?
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You can definitely hear the note of the wheels change, especially when pushing hard through a high speed corner, almost as if they are deforming. I’m guessing something like the TB110 stays rigid in similar conditions and that’s why they break loose and slide.
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