Lol those speeds I posted were just the speed limit, everyone goes 5-15 over since it’s so wide.
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Yah I’m always jealous of separated bike paths haha I’d say 80% of our roads are non segregated bike path, which is what I ride to work, 9.5 miles each way
There are some areas with segregated but definitely not as good as some places
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Right, so I am about to finish my very first board. I only need to hook up the motors and here’s the question:
I am using bullet connectors. Does it matter how I connect them?
The order doesn’t matter, just make sure that they are well insulated from one another
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More specifically, once you connect all 6 pairs of bullets, wrap any exposed metal with kapton, heat shrink, or some other strong tape.
This is a big limitation. The good news is, it’s incentive to get the whole family skating as soon as possible/practical. I skate carrying my dog ALL THE TIME. Like, I did today already…
Have you seen my builds? If you make a huge mountainboard with a box on top, massive tires, and a ridiculous weight, yeah, this is probably going to be an issue. Because that doesn’t sound like it’s designed to solve those problems. But with these:
…not so much. They carry vertically with a handle on the nose. It’s not much of an issue to walk through a crowded mini mart carrying the board and your items you wish to purchase. It also fits very nicely on the bottom of a grocery cart.
I suppose I was dreaming the hundreds of times I’ve skated home with about 12 bags of groceries then, and skating to the hardware store all those times must have also been dreams… I should get myself checked out.
This is true, but it’s also related to the amount of effort put forth. Both in procuring or creating the best vehicle for the needs, and in how it’s used.
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When y’all paying $5/L for gas I’ll be laughing
$18.927/gal
I think I fried my BMS.
I plugged in the charger into the board, it sparked, connected it to the wall outlet and now it won’t charge.
Charger is an LED Driver with a wattmeter attached. Did some charging yesterday but didn’t want to leave it over night - it charged perfectly with 50.0V at 3.2A.
Any suggestions? I guess I’ll have to finde a new BMS, huh?
Sounds like you may have cooked the charger rather than the bms?
I don’t know shit about LED drivers, but i always make sure my charger is plugged to the wall and turned on before I connect to the board…
Does the driver still put out the correct voltage?
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Yup.
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Halp me
According to the wattmeter it puts out the correct voltage but no current.
A Multimeter confirmed: there is no current going from the charger to the BMS.
any way how I can figure out if the charger is broken or the BMS? (i don’t have a second charger or board)
Is there any way I can connect both Flipsky VX1 receiver and bluetooth module to a single flipsky fsesc 4.2? It seems that both use uart ports so I don’t know if I could just connect the controller’s receiver to ppm port or use a split uart or something.
Thanks
There is a ppm pin exposed on the vx1 receiver.
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Humm and does it affect somehow any characteristics? I mean, if I connect it that way, can I still use the controller as always?
Thank you for the response btw
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Dunno… I don’t have a vx1. I got that diagram from the product page on flipskys website
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Yes you absolutely can. I believe using UART over PPM granted you one small feature. Was it reverse? Could be reverse but that doesn’t matter since you have reverse via the vesc itself.
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Awesome, I’ll go that way for now untill I buy a better ESC. Thank you! 
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