My 6380 torque boards motor is falling apart. Does anyone know where I can source parts for it?
The cracks were from a week ago, and the second pic of the can crooked is today.
The cracks were from a week ago, and the second pic of the can crooked is today.
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Thats’s pretty strange, looks like you’ve been treating those motors pretty harsh.
I would contact @torqueboards directly via pm or email.
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If tb can’t replace them, I’d definitely be looking for another motor. Personally I wouldn’t trust that. Unless you can find some spare parts to rebuild it from
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So what reliable vesc can we use these days…
waiting 4 stormcore
trampa vesc
flipsky
maytech
aliexpress unity gone?!?
spintend???
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stormcore is available, unless u want 100S
trampa is standard in their own way
flips…nope
maytech is not bad
faknity is scam
spintend ubox still need more testings from experts
cheaper option would be makerX seems pretty good
ZESC is unique in its own way, also small af
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TB6 hopefully any day now
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Stormcore available? Where?
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I think you just need to send TB an email and they’ll send you an invoice for one of their new ones.
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correct
Whats the consensus on riding ATB boards in the water/rain? I’m mostly concerned about the motors - is the water going to destroy open motors like the TB 6374, and would sealed ones like the Lacroix 6374s fair any better?
This is just what I think, but personally I wouldn’t ride any board in the rain; no matter how water resistant your enclosure, motor, or esc is, there’s always a chance for water ingress, and anything to keep water out is never perfect. I think any unsealed motors will run into issues if the phases are shorted by water.
Also, is the builder forum under new ownership or something? It looks like this forum now. I thought it was dead
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LoL but you can’t just stop life because it started raining. I can see the puzzled look on your boss’ face when you say you can’t go to work today because it’s raining LoLz
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So basically its probably not the best, but you gotta do what you gotta do?
I’m pretty sure I once saw a video of someone going through what looked like a shallow river on an eskate, and it seemed to work fine come the other side.
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someone did that with an exway x1pro hub version, but that board had an IP rating to start with 
Was it this?
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Yea that’s it!
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LoL that’s me 
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There are 3 things water will do
- reduce traction: you will slip out as the force the wheels exert on the ground is way way smaller, throttle/brakes/steering will go out the window. Solution is go slow or get wheels that are better (harfangs or off-road pneumatics)
- corrode metals: all your bearings, axles and hardware will seize up or rust apart which is generally bad. Solution is to use stainless which is softer, coat everything often in rust preventing compounds, or dry it IMMEDIATELY
- short electronics: the water itself will rust the copper and brass on the surface but that protects it and it’s not the worse (multistrand wires are susceptible though) but the ions make it conductive and can cause failure or fire and ruin everything. Solution is layers and layers of protection (gaskets between deck and enclosure, epoxy ports and wirea, silicone all open space, conformal coat electronics repeatedly), and minimize points of ingress
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- jettison magic smoke from electronics
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