Cool, I always wondered what was inside those convers!
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There was a lot more silicone in there than it needed and also some loose solder connections that may or may not have caused issues if I didn’t remove it. I just did it to save space in the enclosure and so I could easily shorten the USB wires since trying to open them up at the usb end never ends well.
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I always assumed they potted the electronics in there for robustness and heat sinking. Have you noticed any overheating issues with the bare PCB?
Yeah that’ll light them up lol
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This and the flashlight together will be like daylight.
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How did you attach it to the board or truck?
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I bolted the OEM mount onto two pieces of metal that sandwich the matrix ii baseplate. Also wrapped it all in stretchy rubber tape.
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Silicone is an insulator and would cause the device to heat up more than if it was just bare. I’ll be coating it in conformal coating to add back some water proofing and I’ll likely add a bit of silicone where the USB wires are soldered to the board for strength and insulation since one lead got stripped too far and is now completely bare. The silicone I add will still have the PCB take up much less space since the pcb height is pretty short except for the capacitors.
I humbly disagree. If the air is still then the silicone would have lower thermal resistance and would sink away heat better. Air is a much better insulator than silicone.
In still air you can only cool via radiation, which wouldn’t be much, or via convection. In a small space there’s no room to set up decent convection currents so the cooling via that method is small too.
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Every part of this mount rattled loose on a 6 mile ride. Back to the drawing board. Im going to copy @JoeyZ5
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This looks like a riot of fun. Tkp, short wheel base, and good hubs. Wish I could try it
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Can confirm that silicone actually transfers heat reasonably well. I have my escs siliconed down to a curved aluminium heatsink that gets surprisingly warm.
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Finally made an enclosure, new old battery from @haven is really impressing me after a single shakedown ride. No cutouts and moar range compared to the 30qs sitting in the background. Guess battery tech really does make a difference, ty molicel
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Awesome setup! Glad to hear the battery is performing well for you 
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To go to all that trouble I’d also put some thick epoxy where shown in attached pic. I’ve had magnets slide up on FS6384s.
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DIY retaining ring 
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Yeah it got me another 100km or so before i completely cooked them
Edit: pushing too many amps for them so can’t really blame them.
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Dude.
Was that on the newer battle hardened ones?
Because to me those magnets look super duper glued down.
I do wonder if that blue chunk of epoxy was always at the bottom there or if it was up here and fell off and ended up there.
I can’t seem to dislodge it easy…
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