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I gave some negative feedback on the Ebay seller, and then they immediately updated the false shipping, saying the delivered package shipped out of Florida 5 days earlier, hours after it was ordered.
Iām such a fool for ordering it. I know Iāll eventually get my money back, but those funds are tied up for the time being, and there is likely some more hoops to jump through.
I got to give a huge shoutout to @trancejunkie .
He has sent me a 17 pound Esk8 goodie package with some surprise mystery contents, and which is now enroute having left the oakland Ca USPS.
@evwan mailed me a FS6.6mini inside a beautiful metroboard housing many months ago.
So far I have failed to get it controlling my hub motors properly, but I have not given up, just tabled it for now.
@arzamenable sent me some OG 1.6 focboxes, and M1 manta drive hub motors, and some caliber trucks and some other goodies. I love the loose 100 amp ANL fuse 
Iāve been using one of the trucks and all the bushings, and been contemplating ways to mount a large heatsink to my next enclosure that can accommodate 2 Focboxes side by side.
I recently received some Julet 9 pin connectors for the M1 hub motors and hope to get these powering the Diagonal mini, soon.
The width of the caliber trucks onto which they easily attach is a bit of a stumbling point, as the super light and nimble diagonal mini has a narrow, and now fully encased within fiberglass deck, and narrow trucks. Iād like to 10S1p it and vesc it and keep it light and nimble on these 80mm hubs, for which I have replacement sleeves. A 127mm caliber precision truck would likely allow the hub motors to easily attach and keep the narrow, but is more $ than I can justify at this point.
The diagonal mini remote failed because I am an idiot, allowed it to get wet, then didnt inspect it soon enough, nor prevent the PCB corrosion which killed it, and now my slow yet light and nimble backup board is Non-op.
Back when I was trying to get a better wheel setup on the Kayak cart, @Venom121212 and @AlexB offered to send me some rims and tires and tubes.
When I was melting down over my Inability to get the FSesc powering my hubs properly, @haven offered me a whole Exway ripple.
And @mulletboardermobbin has offered me an Eovan carbon deck and some DKP trucks and motor mounts, a platform which I hope to build my most capable Esk8 around, in the relatively near future.
@Sk8tedad has also offered to send esk8 goodies, and has been generous with time and spirit, via PM.
Also a shoutout to @jaykupā¦ He was the first to PM me, with offers of parts and assistance, and gave me a a brief yet enlightening summary of the history of Esk8 and Vesc. I hope he and his family are well.
@Pecos has always been quick to respond to my beginner questions, and offer great advice. I hope his quitting smoking tobacco has been successful and he is well.
@BillGordon has also been a good spirit, and ambassador, and I miss his regular contributions, and humor. I hope I didnāt insult him, that was not my intention.
@glyphiks I hope all is well with you and your current endeavors. Your builds are inspiring, and your input is missed.
I hope to be able to pay it all forward one day, and put all these gifted parts to good use, and or get them into the hands of someone else who can put them to good use in the future.
I really appreciate this forum and the good vibes from its members, and hope that more members donāt go dark in favor of facebook groups and such.
I found Facebook to be a toxic place that filled me with negative thoughts, and anxiety and deleted my account 4+ years ago.
Being able to ride my Esk8, towing Fiona in the kayak to the kayak launch/watering hole, or in her land chariot, has kept me relatively sane( I think), in an Alzheimered nuthouse.
The generosity of time and spirit and parts and words on this forum, has made my life, much more enjoyable than it otherwise would have been, and I have learned a great deal, and I wanted to thank the community for accepting me and improving my skills and tools and the quality of parts with which to build more capable boards.
Thanks again all.
Iām gonna go tow Fiona to the watering hole, as thankfully my Mom is having an OK day, and I can get out of the house.
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Well, that could have gone better.
Cruising across the shell trail in a shady part, I felt a bump from front truck heard something hit enclosure, then back truck bounced, and then immediately had half power.
I braked to a stop with only one motor skidding, Fiona jumped out, and I was surrounded by a cloud of mosquitoes. Standing behind board, I hit throttle and both motors shot up rooster tails of crushed shells.
I put esk8 in chariot, took off shirt to swat at legs and back, and jogged after Fiona who was now hunched in a patch of shade.
Bagging her Poo, I was just mauled my mosquitoes, as she trotted ahead.
I jogged to catch up, noticing the water level in mangroves adjacent to crushed shell trail being quite high, considering the lunar high tide max which I had checked, and knew it would not be covering the trail.
We got to the footbridge, and saw more water than I have ever seen there, and I parked the chariot on āhighā ground, balanced my skate on my head, and jogged through the calf deep water to catch up to Fiona, and get away from mosquitoes.
Fiona hunched a second time on some dry ground, and again I was assaulted by mozzies when bagging it.
We got to the Pavilion, and I was hoping the wind would keep the mosquitoes at bay. A cloud had followed us and I was just in mosquito killing mode while passing boats laughed at me, and after smearing several dozen, it seemed I got them all, and had a brief period of relative peace.
I decided to loosen the three velcro cinch straps, and drop the enclosure, and see if a sensor wire or something had loosened when a stone or stick hit a phase wire, and caused the one motor to drop out.
Soon as enclosure dropped, the cloud of mosquitoes attacked again.
I have a full size enclosure EPDM gasket, which decided to take flight in a gust of wind and landed in the water and was getting sucked away with the tide.
I went after it but had to ditch phone and remote and leash and ball from pockets first, then wade chest deep after it in the questionable quality water, with mosquitoes buzzing around my ears and eyes, and me slapping myself in the head to kill the bastards.
I got back to Fiona, who was shaking her ears, and walking in circles, annoyed with her own cloud of mozzies. I quickly checked sensor connections which were tight, everything inside as it was the last time I looked inside, and restrapped the enclosure to deck, with salty epdm gasket on the other side of secondary non salty gasket, raised esk8 atop head, filled pockets, sans ball which had rolled off somewhere and taken with tide, and commanded Fiona follow.
Fiona was wanting to go swim, but I wanted to go, and she reluctantly and slowly followed, tail down and sad, as I used my shirt to swat legs and back and neck.
She was lagging way behind all depressed, and when I got to the chariot I set it up to be towed immediately by the skate, then jogged back to get her to hurry the F up.
She climbed in the chariot without protest and I pushed twice on the loose shells with 90% of my weight on the 8x3 turf tires, and hit the throttle and started throwing rooster tails of shells, thankfully from both wheels, yet barely accelerating from lack of traction on a looser part of the trail. The 90mm urethane hub motors need a certain amount of weight on the crushed shells to get purchase, but this amount of weight varies depending on the size of the crushed shells and their level of compaction, and Iāve not mastered the balance between how much weight to put on 8x3" turf pneumatics up front and urethane hub motors in back.
Thankfully all went well and I felt and saw mosquitoes bouncing off of me as we got upto say 15mph on the remainder of the trail.
I aimed upwind immediately on achieving asphalt, and was really wishing for more acceleration to escape the cloud of Mozzies even faster. I Full throttled it all the way home, wishing for more speed, even though were were free of the cloud by then, doing 22mph, but I wanted to wash off myself and Fiona.
The whole reason the water level was higher than Iād ever seen, besides being 0.3 feet lower than the highest expect king lunar tide level, was because of rain run off, as previous to yesterday we had significant thunderstorms daily, and that overflow from nearby creek and flooded inland neighborhoods, has proven to be toxic nasty.
The Lunar tide was actually higher the last several days when we went here, but it was not covering the trail, but I guess it takes a while for inland rains to work their way down the creek and add to the water level atop the normal tides.
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sounds like you need a blow torch/ flamethowr for those mosquitos they hurt soooo bad 
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Iāll start with eating raw garlic and not wearing a bright red shirt.
If that doesnt work,ā¦ right to the flame thrower!
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so anything get damaged besides the enclosure? you lost a phase?
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No damage, all is well.
My enclosure is thiccc.
We managed a few miles this evening to meet some rain in SE quadrant, then ran back home ahead of it.
I think perhaps the impact affecting one hub motor issue is sensor wire related. Something tugged on combo 9 wire cable, caused a brief loss of connectivity then esc shuts down that motor. Stop completely, and hit throttle and its back.
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What is kind of weird, is while this enclosure was designed, and over built to fit my midsize Kayakable kicktail, It has been simply velcro cinch strapped to my long flexy analog cruiser since water quality turned to literal shit.
The battery is sandwiched in 0.5mm g10 to stiffen, and that ridgid flatpack s floating in enough soft squishy foam neoprene on both sides, that the rigid enclosure can still twist and flex pretty far, before stressing inflexible battery within.
I Use 3 cinch straps, the front two are over battery, and I keep these pretty tight, but the rear cinch strap,.over the flexiest part of deck under back foot, I keep looser, and the long deck can flex more.
I can actually control deck flex, by how much tension I use on that third cinch strap. My minimum turn radius is about 3ā less when it is super loose, and less stable at higher speedā¦I have stopped just to crank that third strap tighter when an unexpected wobble over an asphalt seam at higher speed alarmed me, but the doing figure 8s in my driveway becomes impossible, until I loosen that third strap.
It has me thinking of having an enclosure that is completely sealed to only itself, and not depending on a deck to enclosure seal, and instead of inserts and screws and a big wide flange, A series of cinch straps or similar to hold enclosure to deck.
Tunable flex.
Patent pending
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This is a rambling thread about underpowered junk, and poor drunken decisions.
Take that slippery beauty were it belongs, to the esk8 porn thread
just kidding.
nice unique looking build!
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Incautiously buzzed, Fiona and I crossed over a bridge, that we have only paddled under before.
A park on the other side was explored for our first time.
Lots of unpaved trails with some elevation changes that the urethane had no issue with, but maybe the battery did.
I went the long way home, the esc beeped at me with low battery, then it beeped a few more times, then again, then no more power, and I had to push the last 100 meters or so, while towing the chariot, which Iād like to say was not too bad, but in reality sucked donkey balls, compared to thumbing the throttle.
It was the first time I ever rode to the hard cutoff.
Iām still surprised this 10s2p battery of 15 amp 2600mah 2$ cells is as capable as it is.
An hour+ later the battery read 32.92v.
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Well actuallyā¦. This use to be a STOOGE board. I gave it more turn, concave, made it AWD, and a lot more. Soā¦I think the post is in the correct place. 
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its just looks so custom and in no way prebuilt
but i see what you mean by modified now, are you gonna grip it?
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I did a lot of work to it. There really is not much to it that resembles what it use to be. Iāve ridden it. Itās a fun board. Would be a killer race board. But I really donāt know what Iām going to do with it. I might just sell it so someone else can enjoy it. I donāt know yet.
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a tale as old as time 
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I guess it does not matter, but I hope the seller got denied any funds, kicked off the platform, and Ebay didnāt have to eat them.
I woulda been excited with more premade junk at less than 1/6th its actual selling price. But so it goes. Too good to be true pricing, but ultimately refunded. So just some unavailable funds for 10 days or so.
Made a huge amount of sawdust today, and the Fionaās Chariot is approaching something more comfy, ventilated, safe, and refined, and is not really gaining that much weight, and is still overbuilt.
Anybody ever do any sleep charging before?
Granted I was drinking beer most of yesterday, but having drawn my battery lower than ever, to the point I had to push, I wanted to see how many amp hours it would take to recharge it to 4.194volts per cell, from roughly 3.29v rested.
I remember charging it slowly, but not wanting to leave it go overnight unattended. I specifically recall seeing it took 1.84 amp hours to get from 32.92v, to 36.35v, when I disconnected charger, and went to bed.
I intended to plug it in before coffee, and crank up the wattage to 150 or so, the point at which my voltage booster starts making funny noises and have enough juice for a late morning cruise.
When I plugged it in, tasting coffee, I expected to see ~36v and crank up amperage to 3.2 or so, but saw it was 41.54v and taking only 35 watts or so. WTF?
So, I think someone got up in their sleep and charged the board for a few hours, then woke up to disconnect it, all with no memory of having done so.
Perhaps Alzheimerās is contagious.
The shell trail was rolled, and I was doused in natural bug spray that smells like vanilla and cinnamon, but still surrounded by mosquitoes when I stopped to let Fiona hunch and squatā¦
The tide was still above lunar expected levels, and coming in fast. The water quality still looks bad, and we trudged through some flooded trail on the way out, and a cloud of Mozzies, then once on dry shell trail, motored out of there to the park, and after that just kept cruising the hood down to 36v.
The 10s2p battery is likely closer to 1500 miles than 1200 now, and with a bit more weight to carry faster, and extra drag with the 8x3 turf tires up front, I can tell it is not providing the same torque as it did a few hundred miles ago.
I have plans to feed esc higher voltage for longer, more plans than gumption and time though.
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wellllllll your post does say 2amā¦ wandering around like a drunk raccoon no doubt
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They had Dos Equis amber, buy one 12 pack, get one free.
What was I supposed to to, abstain?
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Lots of rain last evening and overnight.
The crushed shell trail, nicely compacted, and fast, but the Lingyi, despite a smoother part of the trail, and nothing noticeable bouncing off enclosure or tweakng phase wires anyway, went 50% power and I coasted to a stop instead of braking to a stop.
Hit throttle and one rooster tail.
Hit brake, then throttle, one rooster tail.
Hit brake, but step on and push board, then throttle, and two rooster tails,
Two pushes and off we go.
Thankfully no mosquitoes, and Fiona stayed put in chariot while i played the Lingyi cockroach games.
Overcast, little wind, and the humidity is insane, and water quality lookin ugly.
A 17lb mystery Esk8 package from @trancejunkie is due to arrive in a few hours.
Two OG focboxes and 16.5 lbs of rabbit pellets 
The crushed shell trail is certainly taking its toll on my urethane hub sleeves.
Not so much chunks, but they look like 120 grit sandpaper with lots of micro cracks. I rounded their sharp inside corners with a file., to hopefully prevent some chunking.
One.of the reasons i bought these hub motors is they have replaceable 90mm, and 105mm sleeves. The latter, I am not really wanting to accept the loss of torque, but theyād likely do far better over the shells.
That meepo hubbed donut hanger with 280 more watts of power would be nice. Same 105mm sleeves.
A kayakable pneumatic board would be a challenge, so Ive not really contemplated how to achieve it The time saved by rolling, vs walking, the shell trail, likely negated when breaking it down to stuff it inside kayak hatch.
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