Buy cheap buy twice. I cannot overstate how true this is especially in my build. My wheels were crap so I replaced them, my enclosure broke so I had to replace it. Buy the high quality stuff from the beginning.
And don’t put them in your pocket or don’t put anything on your pocket. It can impale you when you fall.
Kinda obvious but use and abuse flux when soldering.
Sooo I totally haven’t been using flux…
For sure! But make sure to clean the excess
…or buy high quality flux impregnated solder.
Builders’ tip. Read / watch this:
You’re lucky, I started with a Carbon GT
I started on a Bamboo GT so even worse (range / sag).
From Deckoz and some other forum members…
-Dress for the slide, not the ride.
-Learn the Basics of Skating
-Heelside Shut Down Slides are very Helpful to Learn
-Make the board do what YOU want, not what it wants to do…
-Last but not least… Save up and buy quality gear/parts, esk8 ain’t gonna disappear while you save up
Skate an analog deck first, borrow other people’s esk8 so you know what you love and what you hate.
And a note to self: Don’t build based on which parts you can find cheap/used or to impress. Build what you want to use, in real life.
Another note to past self: Buy a “cheap” chinese board (like the ride1up) first before you start building your dream machine(s).
After a 30 year break in skating, I pushed around a 121c Aileron analog for 6 months on my commute before buying an esk8. If I hadn’t done that, reckon I would’ve been dead by now.
new to esk8, but not new to electronics…
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heat and vibration are the greatest theats to electronics in the field.
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weather / environmental proofing and vibration dampeners will act as insulation, increasing heat.
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if you over spec your electronics you will keep heat down.
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use air movement to keep heat down.
does anyone have a link to charge port fuse holders I will never go above a 4A charger.
I bought some in line blade fuse holders on ebay they are small.
like hose
I use this in my devolved build as well. It’s a good size but the wires on the one I got were really stiff and annoying to manipulate.
thx much, I was concerned about the gauge. 16AWG is good huh.
Like @glyphiks said the eBay/chinese ones have not a little low quality cables. I bought like this but never used it. Works with larger fuses.