I’ve been riding for a year and a half with fucking ESCs that’s been trying their best to fucking kill me and I’m done with them (it takes a lot to upset me this much). Basically every other day I ride, I’d have a low speed off because they’re made for 1/5th scale R/C car racing, not carrying humans or doing a stellar job of smooth power modulation.
My typical crash scenario goes like this, pull off tenderly and deal with the cogging mentally, ride (yay!), let off the throttle or get on the brake, get back on the throttle without velvety smooth trigger control, ESCs dump massive amounts of power into the motors, board accelerates from under me unceremoniously dumping me on the ground.
Apart from injuries, the last two such power dumps (that’s two out of three ride days this week) have now ruined my elbow guards, and today seemingly broken some teeth off a POM gear in one gearbox as well. To anyone reading this, fuck HobbyWing Max6 ESCs, they’re not made for esk8 or the road where you have heaps of traction.
I’m not getting back on the board before they haven’t been replaced.