Noob question thread! 2020_Summer

was accelerating from close to standstill on a hill (prob 5mph and not a super steep hill)
but accelerating hard
almost instantly one of the back motors dragged and gave me a little fright and wobble
have been riding the board for ages no issues and i rode it home no issues.

i assume something to do with the hard acceleration. i should have checked the fault logs but i forgot.

any thoughts?

I ordered some sensor cable extensions for my Boardnamics motors. They arrived today and now I can see that the connectors aren’t the right kind.

The smaller black connector is the extension, the larger white connector is on my motor. Can someone tell me the names of these types of connector so I can find either an adapter or the correct extension cable?

Sorry for the blurry photo, my camera’s image stabilizer is messed up.

The easiest way to identify this style of connector is to measure the distance between the pins (the pin pitch). The common sizes are 1.0, 1.25, 1.5, 2.0, and 2.5mm pitch, which correspond with the designations of SH, GH, PH, ZH, and XH, respectively.

For more info, here’s a link to the wikipedia article on JST connectors in general. Lost of details, as well as links to more detailed datasheets.

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Thank you so much, this is just what I needed.

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Anyone know what spacers I’d need for rockstar II’s and the LaCroix prototipo pulleys?

14mm L, 7mm (or less) OD, and 4.XX mm ID? Or better yet, a link to some stateside? I’m mainly unsure of what length I need.

These will be going on BN 270s

Suggestions for an easy to clean grip tape? Need something for under bindings, ideally a more plastic like texture that hoses off well (not looking to get into frit just yet)

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There’s something called rubber grip tape… Let me look it up, I saw it in a Braille? video before

I’ve not used it but according to some reviews, it can be a little slippery when wet

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I don’t think that’s what I’m looking for, someone in the OW community used something that looked and felt like frit but comes as a roll, easy to clean and look after. Ideally it bites into the shoe, I hate having to make bindings super tight

glass frit

oh…

Then just live with the dirt :rofl:

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:sob::sob::sob:

Any suggestions for getting temp sensors running? I’ve got Torqueboards 6374 motors and Unity, connected sensors a week back and the halls work but no temp data still, am I missing something?

My efficiency is pretty mediocre, I’m getting 18 miles from a 544 Wh battery while staying under 30 mph, and the motors get HOT… I’m slightly concerned there’s something wrong and they are generating far more heat than they should

You sure you haven’t got an older model that has no temp sensor?

I mean it has the white wire for it

I believe temp was yellow?

The older gen tb motor didn’t have temp sensors, even if the cable is there.

My old tb motors have all sensor wires but no temp sensor. Dexter added it waaaay later.

From when are they circa? I believe dex added the temp sensor around end 2019? If not even sometime 2020.

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Oh I have no idea how old the motor is, I got it serving hand back in November from @DEEIF

Then it’s probably the version without temp sensor, or the temp sensor is shot.

Any way to check? Without removing the can

Can’t tell you unfortunately.

Ahh damn, oh well

You should be able to just measure the resistance across the temperature pin and ground, if its anything other than 10k milli ohm, its shot/non-existant.

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