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The problem with the heat shrink is it prevents Flexibility in one direction.

I wanted to agree with you and I ordered tons of heat shrink for this. But I have to agree with John that the kapton is better than heatshrink.

The key is that every cell is independent from the next. It needs to flex with the deck and not have one cell pull on another. If one cell pulls onto the next, it will put stress on the nickel and the fear is that will lead to failures.

The kapton holds the cells and nickel, as well as the silicon we put between each cell and the pcb. But the heat shrink will pull cells and prevent flex.

We do have a prototype board that will be running in the coming days so we can start testing.

John did sell a few pcb batteries like this before and they are still going as far as we know.

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We are aiming for $200 without a bms and $250 with bms.

Weā€™re debating because we donā€™t want to sell batteries and have people wire them incorrectly and make a warranty claim. So weā€™re not 100% sure yet how we will proceed.

But it will be a great deal. One option will likely be a deck, enclosure, battery, bms, metr pro, and official vesc 6ā€™s pre wired. Just add your own drive train, set the settings, and go. Probably somewheres around $1200 in that case.

The issue is with this battery, thereā€™s not enough space for a storm core or even focboxes, and the bms. But there is enough for vesc 6ā€™s and the bms.

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Seems like a lot of ground to cover my friend. Offering the battery with bms sounds good, but at the same time an option without the battery sounds good to save a little. Maybe offer a slimmed/reduced warranty with the battery -bms version?? :man_shrugging: Maybe that and offer an enclosure that fits well with the battery/pcb sizeā€¦ other than that most people like to pick their own escs, decks, etc.
Thatā€™s just my view tho, and Iā€™m not your typical buyer.
Never da less gl with the packs!

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@evoheyax It makes sense. What if you shrink wrap it in the flexed state? Then it would work, no?

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Did you build a gym in your house? If you did, did you buy locally or order from China?

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Iā€™ve met him countless times, I think he isā€¦ ā€¦? Idk

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Custom made headlights or scavenged flashlight parts with 3d printed housing?

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The reason why we pad up.

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Everything locally. I managed to get 500$ discount plus free shipping because I bought all at the same time.

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DRLā€™s from Ebay!

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Sweet find m8!

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I had been looking for a while on making my own lights for this and got my inspiration from this guy

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But they arenā€™t exactly bright? I had a few of them, seemed fairly disappointingā€¦

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Ehh, Testing them theyā€™re pretty bright

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Nice setup, big man. I sent you my calves so that one of us would have a full set.

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Iā€™ve found these to work very well to retract stubborn Wheel pulleys without Having to beat the crap out of them image

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For it to work, we also need @Itsmedant calves

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@BillGordon
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Damn man, I gotta work on everything! One good thing about all these surgeries, Iā€™ve lost more weight! Down to 226 but I bet the majority is my muscles going through atrophy

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