So I just broke a keyway and idk what else. Both my motors aren’t working. One spins but isn’t connected to the gears anymore and the other isn’t showing signs of life.
I just freaked out and cried. I am obviously not yet mentally stable. Waiting for a friend to give me a lift home so I can freak out more.
Thank fuck I reminded myself I went poor buying a new drivetrain, but with my luck I just fried half of another vesc.
I just need to breathe and grab a wrench. Hopefully nothing is replacement-level fucked (besides the keyway) because I really can’t afford that right now.
Fucking FUCK! Just fried YET ANOTHER half of a MakerX by doing some innocuous regular upgrades.
Just plugging in. UART device.
FML I can’t afford a new vesc for another 3 weeks, and by the time it comes in it;lol be the rainy season.
I’d love a bike but that costs money that goes to esk8.
I swear I’m not retarded, just extremely unlucky.
Heck last year I got a D75 that just stopped responding entirely, sent it to MakerX to get fixed and they sent it back in the exact same state.
WTF is with my luck?
I’m trying to start a pev repair business but at this rate I have zero faith in myself. What’s the point of trying if it’s all just gonna fall apart on me?
Please nobody offer me parts to help, I don’t deserve them at this point.
I just want this bullshit to end. I’m fucking crying. Esk8 is the only thing in the world I care about. I live my entire life for esk8. Why can’t I just have my one thing in the world that brings me joy???
Fuck on top of everything I have no transportation, I live 3km up a hill from the nearest bus, which I can’t afford anyway. I need to travel 4km round trip to fetch water for my home. I need to go places and get things done. I can’t do anything without my esk8.
I am nothing without it. My esk8 is who I am, it lets me do everything I ever do. Esk8 is literally as important as life it’s self.
It’s gonna be a few bad weeks. Looks like the esk8 I just dropped a tonne of $ and time and other people’s donated parts into to fix won’t be operational until fall, at which point it’ll rain for months. I’m currently in a state of not having what I need for a fix, not being able to afford even the cheapest component to fix it, and a long wait until a glimmer of hope.
I don’t really feel like airing all my problems on here, but my esk8 is the solution to most of the surface problems, and I can’t do that right now…
I know a bicycle has been suggested but I can’t even afford that.
E-skate is a recent thing, and pointing bikes up and down hills is probably the only thing I’ve had for most of my life to keep me, in my own opinion, at least partially sane some of the time.
Last night my wife asked if I had to choose between my boards and her… Anyway…
When it comes to mental health, there is something about the exercise from pointing a bike as slowly as it may seem, up a hill that really helps in ways E-skate typically does not. There’s science around this, I believe it’s associated with endorphins. Also, putting in 45 minutes or more of work to gain only ten minutes or less of loose AF DH helps to appreciate the things we work for. It helps with patience and keeping a clear head for me.
My question now is to ride the modern bike, or the 1998 classic (Marin rift zone) I’ve rebuilt to reminisce on my childhood.
Take the time to consider your goals and begin to plan for the long term.
You’ll succeed at little without first learning how to manage failure. Winston Churchill said it well, “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm”. I have to remind myself all the time.
Nothing is supposed to be easy. DIY E-skate definitely isn’t. I find it challenging, and my practical skills / experience are much more diverse than that of most other people, short of programming and 3D modelling anyway.
I think I’ve just successfully replaced a DRV chip, but I’m almost forty and that clocks still ticking. The last two ESC’s I fried entirely from failing. I’ve spent the last two hours faffing around in vesctool over a silly ppm setting.
I like to pick up cheap used evolve boards and make new battery. They are cheap and crap and got me out of the shit when I only had one DIY board completed.
