They’re either 30Q or the 18650 VCT6
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Got it. Thanks bro
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All of my batteries are fully functional The oldest battery dates back to summer 2018. The Revel Kit batteries have impressed me in the extent to which they have withstood the odd over depletion and one down hill overcharge. Indeed, my fear was that the Landwheel battery saga would repeat itself with the Revel Kit. But those fears never materialized. The landwheel batteries had short range and almost every owner damaged thier batteries by trying to squeeze range out of the batteries (restarting after Shut down. Those Batteries were Lipo’s.
I imagine there are a few reasons that the Revel Kit batteries have not suffered over depletion damage. The cells are better. The ESC programming seems to protect the battery more. The range is much longer compared to the Landwheel L3-x. and it may or may not have helped that I posted a thousand warnings not to overdeplete batteries.
The battery problems that have been reported in this thread seem to be almost entirely due to broken aluminum tabs between cells and also some broken solder joints. @ShutterShock tells us that Revel is working on engineering improvements to prevent those types of failures in the future.
I do think that in the Eskate industry in general, overdepletion is likely the largest cause of battery failure. The Revel Kit battery has dodged those types of failures, perhaps because so many tough lessons were learned by way of the Landwheel experiment.
On the topic of overcharge, I had thought for a year or so that I had written off the first prototype battery from 2018 due to down hill overcharge. However, I recently found that the battery cells were in actually in perfect condition. A friend of mine who is a battery rock star disassembled the battery, tested all the cells, found them to be good, then reset the BMS. All good now.
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Thank you for the detailed response! I just ordered my revel kit a few weeks ago and hope to get it soon, although the may be wishful thinking. It seems lately, Revel and their distribution warehouse has been struggling to get kits out to people. You mentioned that the battery issues reported in this thread are “almost entirely due to broken aluminum tabs between cells and some broken solder joints” and that apparently they are working on this. Do you think this is a factor to why Revel Is struggling with distribution/shipping delays right now?
Sorry you got hurt. Thanks for sharing your misfortune so that others may benefit. High speed runs on short decks are very risky on any esk8. Also, new riders should avoid high speed runs until after they identify pivot bushings to match their weight. Also, full face helmets are best for high speed test run’s (I don’t always follow my own advice, but I should). Shin/Knee pads and a motocross jacket are gear that I have learned to always wear regardless of speed.
I know you have figured all of these things out the hard way. I’m just puncutating the hard learned learned for the benefit of others.
One more thing. It seems like when I am fully equipped head to toe, I never have an accident or even a close call. For some reason accidents and close calls only seem to happen on the occasions that I get lazy dressing up.
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To be anal about it, they are nickel strips, not aluminum lol - but yes, we / Revel have discussed engineering improvements and are implementing them in the next version of the batteries. The current version going out to customers is already better than the version a lot of the older customers had, the next one should hopefully fix the issues experienced for good. Sometimes it is hard to tell what is going to happen, so we have provisioned to improve the batteries in several ways - everyone knows that sometimes chinese manufacturing can have unknown variables that pop up from time to time.
Anyway
Not really, it’s partly due to batch size and the sheer number of people that have been ordering Revel kits recently (Covid boredom yknow)! Business is doing well - we’ve got a lot of kits going out very soon. All international orders ship directly from China and we’ve got a shipment arriving in the US at some point in the near future as well (I think the US warehouse will be stocked up again in Sept. Larger batch size this time)
Good to know that these issues people are facing are being addressed and the are being updated. As for shipping to the USA, when you say you think the US warehouse will be stocked again in September, do you mean that another batch won’t be sent out until September? I may have misread you, my apologies if I did.
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I am unaware of whose order is in what batch, but I think almost all of the people that have ordered recently should have been in this batch that should be going out very soon.
The Sept batch should be for later orders so we can fulfill them quickly. It’s hard to say since I don’t know exactly where the order cutoffs are - Flo should have sent out an email to all orders about the current status of the batches very recently - if it hasn’t come out yet it should soon
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Sweet! Man this excitement is getting to me lol, it’s my first eskate. Thanks for the responses!
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I just got my first FedEx notice…guess that means 10-12 days from now I may receive my kit? The “label has been created” notice, which is just a placeholder.
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How long ago did you order yours?
June 13th.
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Is revel working on/eventually going to have an app in the future?
It’s in the works, like it hints in the user guide
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What is your position with revel?
“Technically” I am an engineering contractor - however, I have helped with a lot of other things including customer service.
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If anyone wants a cheaper extra charger alternative & doesn’t care about the docking block, this charger is CONFIRMED as identical to the stock Revel Charger:
Just make sure you get the 42V, 2A version.
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What’s the shipping situation like these days? Any idea how long until new orders are going out? Want to get a second kit.
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I got a reply on their IG stating it’s about 3 weeks out at the moment.