I make my own motor mounts from aluminum with lots of filing drilling and jigsawing.
Can I add a belt tensioner and have it be my only form of tensioning?
Im thinking of having it slide up and down, and placing the motors at a distance where the belts would normally slip on hard braking. This would be a single easily adjustable point to tension and detension belts . Im thinking Nordlock washers and a pitted aluminum slider surface with the M6 tensioner kit trampa offers should work. My 63100 motors slide down despite loctite and very hard tightening after around 150mi and thats almost every other week when I am here in college.
Alternatively I could place a variety of holes at different heights where the tensioner goes in and will never slide, it could only bend if the forces are actually that high. Thats what I am wondering, will a tensioner be under that force or can I try something like this?
Turns out the spacers that Lacroix sells for the rockstar II’s are also not 7mm OD. So options are go with these metal ones that don’t quite each the walls or go with nylon ones that do. If anyone else was curious.
Most people don’t have vented enclosures because if you did, water and dust would fill the enclosure lol
If you’ve got a proper heatsink, you can mount it through the enclosure to expose the fins to air and then seal it in. Otherwise, some vescs are okay without air exposure
Does anyone using black @MBS fivestars have bearing slop? The Bearings either rattle back and forth when shaking the wheel or they can easily be removed by a single finger. Sometimes they back out a bit when removing the wheel form the hanger.
The firmware has something to do with the colors of the lights corosponding to the battery level. If you got an old one you can update the firmware and use the lights as a battery meter. IDK
I read that FOC is supposed to be smoother than BLDC.
Long story short, I had to recalibrate my remote but in the process VESC tool fucked my day and I had to redo the motors settings too. Anyways it turns out I was riding BLDC sensorless, I thought I was on FOC sensorsed all along and was even thinking that it doesn’t feel any different than my old board which is on BLDC😅. Moving on, it does noticeably ride smoother at low speed but at speed I kinda feel like it is sketchy, when I release the throttle now, it feels like I am actually hitting the brakes, not really hard but enough to affect balance a little. It could be the drag of the gear drive but I don’t think I felt that on BLDC.
