So yep. Vescing the Pint X yesterday was really cool.
It was the first time I had actually built with somebody.
I have had people hang around while I built before.
But I had never had a real collaboration like I had yesterday.
Daniel is the guy I ran into a while back that had a Vesc on a Pint platform. And he has the 22s Growler Vesc now, so he is quite experienced and capable builder.
I had the Pint X in it’s normal as state yesterday morning and had it Vesced and other updates by late afternoon.
The current updates on the PX were the Kush Nug Hi in the back, and the Hoosier slick recommended by @TheBoardGarage which was a great tire.
And I had peeled the plastic up front and added TFL grip tape.
Yesterday I added the Lil Foccer.
Flipsky XV1 remote.
And Enduro because I really like the Enduro on my GT and I liked the Pint Enduro on Daniels Growler.
lifesavers because I like the look…
And 2mm padded grip tape up front which is really nice.
Oh. And I got a broken Pint controller and box to harvest so I can keep the ones from mine intact.
I don’t really do much new in esk8, just mostly the same stuff over and over and it’s just usually bolting parts together, so I am pretty comfortable with most projects I take on and have a good vision.
With this Onewheel there were a lot of unknowns and new things to do, and new things to learn, which was both exciting and intimidating.
Like getting the motor and foot pad hooked up to the Foccer.
Sketchy…
Tiny soldering…
I harvested the board and plugs from the old Pint controller and Daniel soldered the little wires to it.
I would have had a really hard time doing this…
Taking the PX apart is fun. I really enjoy the design and how FM put it all together.
I am just using the stock PX battery with the BMS bypassed, which luckyly was super easy to do!!!
I would like to try to go higher voltage. Not sure what I could cram here.
Maybe a 17S2P with 18650s.
I hope Joey’s BMS becomes more regularly available in the future.
So we hook the battery up to the new box.
The Pint box had plenty of room for the lil foccer. And I got to tap something for the first time ever.
We tapped the box to bolt the little foccer down.
And the box is a heat sink.
I put fish paper all around.
And then we put the hub back with the rails to run detection.
We hook up over Bluetooth using the app on my Samsung phone.
Connection seemed really solid.
And we start detection.
And we come up Sensorless.
F#$k!!!
So we take off the front foot pad, and the cool thing is we can open up the box with the rails on.
And we get going with the multimeter.
And sure enough one of the 3 hall sensor wires was not getting connectivity through the board.
And this amazing, but Daniel is able to solder it to another spot on the board right behind where the motor connector comes in.
To a tiny little pin.
AND IT WORKS!!!
I would have never been able to do that…
But dude has lots of soldering experience.
And I cake that board with super glue to keep the tiny wires in place.
And here is the first picture of the PXVX alive!!!
Here is the other big deal here.
I don’t even know how long it would have taken me to learn and figure out how to set up and tune the lil foccer.
Holy shit, there was a lot going on.
But again, Daniel did all the heavy lifting.
And I just sat there with my jaw dropped.
After a million screens on the app he tells me it’s good to go and I hopped on it.
And it worked.
And it felt like a Onewheel,
And it felt totally Familiar.
Note I even broke out the Fox proframe, because new little death box means all the gear.
But is sure worked.
Daniel checked it out and fixed a couple more things.
I think he set me up with the standars float package and I have ATR on.
So we went and rode for 5 miles and It worked the whole time and I lived.
Daniel got it up to 20.
I think I only did 18.5
But it only had 80% battery when we started…
I made it up this grass hill I would not have looked at on the PX.
Besides that I did not push it very hard.
Oh, it handled going down steep hills amazingly. Like perfect control.
The tire is nice.
The padded grip tape is nice.
Al @glyphiks I thought about what you said a lot while doing this.
It’s a sin to take apart a perfectly working board.
But man.
So far so good.
And it certainly seems like quite an upgrade.
I got a full charge and went out again today despite it being freaking cold 38f 3c. And windy as hell.
And I did 7 miles.
Once again in full armor.
And I survived.
Today I got to 19.8
Pretty sure I had not hit 18 on the PX.
When the battery gets lower the push back comes on pretty early.
But I felt very confident in the ride the whole time.
And the way it feels is nice.
And I have not even got into tuning.
So, pumped.
