Will there be a gear drive for these?
Yes exactly, and I’ve kept this angled bushing system through to mk4 as I think it offers some interesting benefits (aside from making the machining more annoying)
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No but I will consider working with BN to enable his to fit. The hangar profile is 18 x 20 mm on mk4 for particular reasons so it might involve needing a new clamp
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Do you have any idea on a rough pricepoint, and how wide are they? If they can compare with the set of BN 270’s i have coming in, i might need to have you add your trucks to my radium motor preorder LOL.
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Haha, they might not work for you then as mk4 is currently at 237mm width. We tried to go as narrow as possible with the 6485 motors. We will be able to play around with the width later but 237mm is what we’ll begin with.
I can’t give a price yet but it should be under 500USD with motor mounts
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Received my charger today, woo! It’s literally the same size as a YZPower 6A one 
What’s interesting is that the instructions mention plugging the charger out of the AC wall socket before disconnecting it from the board. I never thought that was important. Does that apply to other chargers too? 
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Lol who reads instructions 
I haven’t done that and mine hasnt exploded yet. Probably only like 10 charges done out of it tho.
Such a good charger! Enjoy!
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What’s the fan noise like? Nice and euphonic?
Yeah, plugging into the wall first makes sense so that the other end of the charger is close to battery voltage and doesn’t spark, but unplugging? I don’t see the issue
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I will get back to you on that, need to solder connectors on it.
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Maybe it’s just risk mitigation, that the user could turn the plug somehow and short the charger
Who knows
Might have to do with discharging the capacitors in the charger. More of a safety advice. Don’t think doing it the other way around will harm the charger.
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That’s a good theory, you can really get shocked by that sometimes!
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How do these motors (and maybe motors in general) handle the fine dust kicked up on fire roads? I think that could get past the mesh right, or maybe clog up the mesh? Would it overheat if it were clogged?
In my experience so far its not a problem as it doesn’t seem to build up too much inside. I guess due to the air flow also sucking it out
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I have 200 miles on beta set of these motors here in NYC and they are running fine. I took the motor can off after maybe 75 miles and it was as dusty as any other motor is gonna be. The good thing is the design makes servicing the motor and replacing bearings a very easy procedure. So with that in mind, these motors may last longer than some of the more popular ones on the market under normal use.
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Are you planning on doing a range of motor sizes eventually, or just sticking with the one size? Something a little smaller would be good nice also.
@Tony_Stark do you remember what the winding resistance was for the 205kV variant in vesctool detection?
Would love to but we just haven’t got the order volumes or the capital to justify more variants right now.
I don’t remember sorry. Might have to ask in the thread for the motors if anyone else can check on their setup…
Developing the Radium board #04 is out! Fairly in depth with how we made the moulds, to the point I’ve had to split it again, so update 5 will be like part 3 of making the moulds…
We also have a bunch of new products up on the site so be sure to have a browse before we do some official posts for them 
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