You are meant to use the rubber bits that are included with the kit. They prevent the screws from backing out during riding.
The kits are packaged with a battery inside the box, so likely not. You could just buy another with a standard range battery.
Yep it does
Did you check your wheel bearings to see if they click? Sometimes improper tightening can cause slight clicking.
Do you know the weight of these things? Do they come with sensors? Could I use 4 of the motors for a 4 wheel drive setup?
I think itās like 8 lbs or something like that
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Are you talking about buying two kits and using them together? In that case yes, the remote can pair to two kits when you set it up and run 4wd no problem
Probably too heavy for my light weight setup 
with NeoOne deck, I thought ā¦ Do you know of by any chance hub motors (4 of them) that I could use instead?
You canāt use the revel on the neoOne lmao itās a big flat plate, youād need like an inch of risers
You could use hummie hubs, torqueboards hubs, thereās some wowgo ones out there somewhere, etc.
Why not just get torqueboards direct drive
Too heavy. There are also TB hubs (do you have a link perhaps)?
Edit: hummie hubs also too heavy and sold out.
Edit 2: woogo sold out too!
The wheels only make the noise on acceleration and braking. He will be taking a closer look at everything tonight.
Has anybody tried any of the beercan boards aluminium decks with the Revel Kit? Seems like most of their decks have a drop which might not work with the kit.
Guess youāll have to make a pushboard then 
Yeah unfortunately those probably wonāt work, any kind of a drop is just problems haha
Oh so you already sent it in
Unless I can find 4 hub motors that weigh less than 5 kg together ā¦
This isnāt really the place for this, but why are you trying to do 4wd in the neo one deck anyway, how could you fit all that esc and battery in there. Just do 2wd lol itās a short board
Would like to have good torque and keep it looking as much as possible like a pushboard, since esk8 is illegal in Germany.
@BillGordon can you upgrade @aaronmjr
@aaronmjr:
That sound could be underlubricated bearings or it could be friction from the adapters. I notice the sound only happens under accelleration and braking. The first two things that I would try are as follows:
1 Lubricate inner and outer motor and wheel bearings with speed cream. Make sure the Axle nuts are not too tight. Make sure you have not omitted the bearing spacers or speed rings.
2 remount the adapters but be careful to tighten the machine screws incrementally and in an X pattern.
Tighten top. Tighten bottom, Tighten left, Tighten right, repeat about 3 times to achieve snug fit but donāt over tighten. This tightening pattern is similar to how mechanics tighten the lug nuts on a car wheel. If you crank down just one bolt all the way while leaving the others loose, then you can pull the adapter off center. Thatās why the x tightening pattern is important. Donāt overtighten the machine screws or you can deform th adapter. You can also use blue loctite.
Hey Hans:
So it looks like you preferr hub motors to direct drive because hub motors look more like manual skateboard wheels ā because electirc skateboards are not legal in Germany.
I did a bit of"German Electric Skateboard Laws" research. I see that you and others have been posting in another thread about the German laws and how slow they are changing? At present, Is this still true? ā¦
If it is, then my suggestions would be as follows:
If the police are not actually enforcing the laws, then just donāt wory about it and ride whatever you want. You probably would not be looking for an undetectable eskate if the laws were not being enforced but I thought Iād ask. There are lots of places where electric skateboards are not legal but in practice the cops think they are really cool and give a thumbs up when the electric skateboards ride past.
Buy a legal electric scooter, cut the back off of it and bolt a revel kit to the rear end. Then figure out how to hook up the revel kit remote to a handlebar throttle. I donāt think it would be to hard. Iāve been thinking about doing something like this with an old razor scooter that has a degraded lead acid battery.
Put together any type of electric skateboard and bolt a fixed handle bar to the front. From a distance it would look exactly like a scooter but it would function exactly like a skateboard.
It turns out they actually make such a product:
http://www.maronad.com/index.php?id_category=175&controller=category&id_lang=3
The youtube reviewer hated it for use in his skate park on a short board. However, if you had a nice long electric long board and you only put your forward hand on the handlebar and you rode with a normal longboard stance, then it would not really interfere wiht your ride. You could also mount the handlebar on the rear. and rest your trailing hand on it. Either way it would save you bending over to pick up your board to cross intersections.
Iām probably going to get ridiculed for suggestion number 2 and 3. But if your objective is to blend in with something that is legal in germany, then why not try to blend in with the legal electric scooters instead of trying to disguise your electric skateboard as a manual one. The thing that really gives a way an electric skateboard is not the battery and motors, Its the fact that you are traveling 20 kph or more up hill without pushing.
Also, i suspect manual skateboards are also illegal in germany so why try to disguise an illegal electric skateboard as an illegal manual skateboard.
Technically, the Revel Kit will work with any dropdown deck if you cantilever the battery off the back end of the deck. One modification is required. You need to remove the trucks, rotate them 180 degrees , insert two risers between the trucks and the baseplate and then bolt it all back together. You can use rubber flooring instead of risers. Then there is an optional modification which is to reverse the motor wires and sensors left to right. That way when you start your revel kit, the motors are automatically in forward mode.
There is a second way to mount the revel kit on a dropdown deck that involves top mounting the battery. You can disassemble the trucks and motor wires. Drill a wire passage in the middle of the bolt holes, then pass the motor and sensor wires through the passage. You also need to drill a wire passage through the middle of the revel Kit bolt pattern. Then you assemble everything wiht the trucks below the deck and everything else top mounted and facing up. You have a choice of mounting the battery hanging off the back or facing forward. If you choose facing forward you have less standing room but you do get an effective foot hook that you could use to hold your feet to the deck. If you cantilever the battery off the back then you donāt loose any standing room. You also have the advantage of being able to turn the drive system on and off from the top of the board.
Here is an example of top mounted and cantilevered off the back.
That looks super cool but its way above my level of expertise lol. Maybe one day Iāll do something like that. For now Iāll stick to just mounting on flat decks I guess. Thank you for the detailed instructions tho! Saved for the future.
Gonna drop this here just to help spread the word, now i know some people dont think there is nothing wrong with the revel kit performance wise but me as well as other users who bought this not only for its uniqueness and modularity but also for good performance. Again some of you may not agree with me but im looking at this from a competitive price to performance standpoint so take what i said in this long video with a grain of salt.And i dont hate revel kit or revelboards i really love the product and the company i just want them to improve and become better as well as the current kits and future kits be mid to high tier performing esk8 products that alot of people would consider riding!!
I do most of my group rides with friends that have Lacroix, High performance DIY and other Revel Kit 4WD. None of us are uniimpressed with the capabiliites of the other riders machines. However, the 4WD revel kit riders do carry spare batteries and we do ride on Speed 3 for most of the ride and we switch up to Speed 4 for the sprints and races. None of the Revel Kit riders rely on standard range batteries. Those stay at home for the day we need to hop on an airplane.
So I could not make it all the way through your 30 minute video. I made it 15 minutes in and then I stopped because I was hearing the same thing in a loop. So maybe you had more to say but I could not get there.
What you did say was factually true but I feel the message was tainted by expectations. Iām not saying there is no value in what you say. Everyone has different expectations. Here is my take on the gap between your expectations and the product.
You talk about riding on speed 4. I think most riders eventually learn to do most of their riding on Speed 3 and to switch to speed 4 when you want to race or show off what your revel kit can do. If you ride around in Speed 4 all the time,then you are burning fuel for no purpose. So take advantage of the ability to change speed levels and you may be more satisfied. Switching speed levels during a ride is something that experienced riders do regardless of which brand they ride.
The standard range battery is sized to get on an airplane. The expectation when you plane lands should be basic low performance, short range transportation from the hotel to somewhere close by. Thatās all you can get from an airline sized battery. However, if you stay on speed 3, then your will be surprised how far your travel battery can take you. Switch to speed 2 and you will go even further. The speed settings are not there to limit your top speed, they are there to allow you to control your range. On speed 4, with a 2WD Revek Kit, a travel battery can only take me 2 - 4 kilometers. On Speed 2 & 3, It can take me 8 km. So it can be a useful battery depending on how you use it.
You look to be over 6 feet and over 200 pounds. In my opinion, you should be a 4WD candidate. i donāt think you would be disappointed with the 4WD Revel Kit performance. In my riding group, the only machines that can beat it are extremely well built DIY boards with very large batteries and $5000 boards like the Lacroix. The same could not be said of the 2WD kit carrying a 200 pound rider.
The acceleration characteristics of the Revel Kit favor a very soft start. Most boards will beat the Revel Kit off the start for the first second or two. However a 4WD Revel Kit catches up and passes most of them. There are two advantages to the power curve. Firstly, it extends range to far beyond what batteries of this capacity would normally get. Secondly, It allows any rider to accelerate with the confidence that they are not going to be thrown off the back if they are clumbsey with the remote. So in practice, I see Revel Kit riders doing much better in drag races compared to machines that are theoretically capable of easily beating the Revel Kit. The Revel Kit Braking characteristics also lend it to beating machines that are theoretically much faster. And the ability to customize the deck and wheels also lends the Revel Kit to much better high speed stability compared to equivalently priced prebuilt systems.
It is unfortunate that your XR battery is not functioning. Broken nickle strips is a problem. They do get replaced under warranty and Revel Kit is working on improving/preventing the fault. So what you say is true and your expectations of a battery not breaking are reasonable.
On the topic of Group rides, a Revel Kit rider needs multiple batteries. If you only have one XR battery then you just donāt have enough capacity for most group rides. The solution is more batteries. The Travel batteries are not much use on group rides.
Your desire for a super sized battery is 50/50 on the line of reasonable/impractical expectations.
Large swappable batteries create dimensional problems. If they are thicker, they scrape on the ground. If they are longer they pivot down and get caught in pot holes or smash against curbs. The Revel Kit XR battery has the right dimensions in my opinion. If you want higher performance, or are a heavy rider then the simple solution is 4WD. The alternate solution is to get creative and parallell in a second battery. Its not hard.
You have compared the 2WD Revel Kit performance with that of boards that have both a price and a battery that is twice as large. Thatās not an apples to apples comparison. Trade up to 4WD and then both the price and the battery capacity will favor the Revel Kit.
So iām not saying you are wrong. I just think your expectations of a 2WD kit with a single swappable XR battery seem to be too high for your weight. I think the same is true of your travel battery expectations.
I did enjoy the first 15 minutes of your video. It makes me want to do some head to head performance comparisons between the 4WD Revel Kit and some equivalently priced systems.
You might want to think about editing the repetition out of your video or starting fresh with a script that covers the points in a single pass.
I would encourage you to consider 4WD with a total of four XR batteries. That should satisfy you if you want a high performance long range system for group rides. Or consider parallell wiring in any large capacity battery if you want something lighter than 4WD.