Revel at the "brand" new competitor in the direct drive Esk8 race!

Hey @Penny_Pincher. Great to hear fro you again.

A 4WD revel kit is capable of powering pneumatic wheels. However, you would want to parallell in considerable battery capacity. The larger the battery, the less the voltage will crash when you try to accelerate a large diameter wheel. Avoiding those voltage crashes will give you good range.

If you try to pull this off with only two Revel kit batteries, then I don’t think your range will be very satisfying – probably less than 8 kilometer on a 4WD.

The best model that I know of for a long range 4W DD of project is a board that was built by @visnu777

Here is a link to some pictues of what he built.

He built it with TB DD assemblies, Janux Wheels and a massive battery. I corresponded with Michael about his creation and asked him how he was able to get decent range out of DD motors. His answer was that the secret was having an enormous battery. @visnu777 does alot of long distance travel on his various creations.

You can do the same thing with a 4WD Revel Kit. However, you will need to add alot of battery capacity in parallell if you want to sustain voltage and range.

@visnu777 put up a huge thread on this project and you might want to read it top to bottom. He starts out with a landwheel drive and a mellow board drive. He then switches to E-Lofty drives. Finally he uses the TB DD wheel adapters to join Janux Hubs to the E-Lofty DD motors.

This link jumps in just after he completes the Elofty/Janux Assembly.

He has a number of setbacks in his project including a blown ESC and overdepleting and damaging his first battery. He then builds a larger battery and finishes at a sucess.

The Revel kit has excellent voltage pacing so I think the risk of blowing a battery is much lower compared to the programmable VESC’s used by @visnu777. I think the damaged VESC was also a result of @visnu777 going high on the programmable maximum amps. So again, I think the risk of damaging th ESC’s on a 4WD revel kit would also be relatively low.

But the keys to sucess is are an enormous battery and the smallest possible diameter of pneumatic wheel.

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