Those newbees sit quite high. Looks like you have plenty of clearance even with the double stack.
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Sick build dude. Can’t wait to see it at Esk8con!
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yeah the ground clearance is pretty good. i’ve only hit the gear drives enclosure doing stupid stuff. it’s great cause i won’t have to worry about ground clearance on the brp’s
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thanks bro, super stoked to be going this year. didn’t even know it existed last year lol
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Love the entire look!
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Went out on the board with James yesterday. I’m actually happy that the board is on the heavy side cause if feels more planted and gives me the confidence to go harder into turns. Made some routes in the park to practice and had some good fun. Gonna try and hit up another park today assuming that the snow has finally melted. Unfortunately, it’s still in the mid-high 30’s so still pretty chilly but not too bad once you start riding.
Pictures and Nothing Else!
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Couple updates:
•MBS XL hubs arrive this afternoon to run the Linnpower racing slicks.
•have to order the quick release hubs with another set of slicks later for Vegas
•zmote torch update made it to Memphis in record time, should be delivered within a week
•the board is getting an rgb strip that’ll be hardwired wired through the bms through some buck converters
•burned down my SKP 175’s to the point of losing traction in about 200mi (a lot of it was practicing for Vegas) i’m sure they would last a lot longer on normal cruising especially if they were aired up to spec
•subsequently had an overcurrent fault and went down from a speed wobble after a motor cut out… probably didn’t help that my trucks were pretty loose from track racing.
i may have had a minor concussion so i took a day of rest and worked on the board. i’m still pretty sore right now but went riding for 40 miles anyway.
this was the max amps the motors saw on that ride
•ordered a set of the Nova tires from Mboards to test out since my SKP’s have been abused to high hell. if i don’t like em, i’m upgrading to 8in
•lastly, it’s official, Sidewinder is getting a Solo V2 in a month or so.
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edit: wasn’t supposed to post yet 
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More Updates!!!
and massive shoutout to MBoards, it’ll be at the end.
WE MADE IT TO VEGAS!!!
The board is here, it’s not running 100% but it’s here.
I have the Nova 7in tires on the MBS XL’s and they look great on the board if I do say so myself. I haven’t done too many hard miles on em but I think they grip better than the SKP 175’s because of that flat profile and how much rubber is on these tires.
The racing slicks and quick release tires are in the room waiting for adapters from @ShutterShock. (Thank you bro)
RGB strip has been hardwired into the board and I like how it looks now. Also have an extra charge port to charge my phone or remote as needed.
I might end up building a 12s board for that solo v2, we’ll see after the event what happens and how our finances look.
Now for the bad news…
Broke my trucks, same failure point each time, but they were both from slamming into stationary objects at high speed. First time was back home running into a pole which broke my motor loose and messed up some gears. The failure point has already been addressed in the second and future iterations but it still sucks…Second time i broke the truck was here in Vegas changing input settings and the board. The board started pulsing the throttle and took off after changing the control type. Fortunately it was in a building and not on the street but it bent my truck bolts and sheared another on the truck. Tried to remove that sheared bolt and it didn’t work out so we were screwed. I damn near threw some nexus trucks on the front just so I could get the board working enough to go on the group rides.
MASSIVE shoutout to MBoards and crew.
They happened to have a set of gen 2 Newbee hangars that they’re letting me borrow until I get that front truck from Stooge which I’ll have whenever he arrives in Vegas. (Yes I’ll be running one Stooge and one Newbee truck whenever I remove that hammock from MBoards) They also let me use their shop/tools to work on the trucks and get the board back up and running. Sidewinder racing in this event was made entirely possible by them.
After this second crash, the board is gonna be getting the full short rod truck setup from Stooge and I’ll be switching back to good ol belt drive which also means more testing of the thane belts!!!
My Esk8con trip has been very hectic so far but things are finally looking up. 
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Metr doesn’t usually report the correct amperage at the time of fault in my experience in that view. There should be another way to view that fault which tells you what it actually saw. Couple things
What’re your current settings? Absolute max?
Do you have slow abs on?
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i think they were at 100 continuous (i think) and 175 absolute max , 70 battery. slow and and traction control were on. fault time was 85ms.
i looked for it on the fault page after the ride and i couldn’t find it on there unfortunately.
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I personally run 50ms fault time so these faults are more of a blip then something that will street face me. But 85ms probably was ok? Maybe the loose trucks like you said contributed to the harder fall.
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Awesome to hear it dude! I had a panic moment when I shipped my board to Carve PDX. Unwrapped my baby, put the trucks and wheels back on, went to charge it up,
POP 
Board won’t turn on… Whole trip is fucked…
After some calming down by Poast and the Gnome, the jostling during shipment had caused the waterproof port cover to somehow bend the barrel pin sideways so my charger was shorting it. Chucked a new charge port fuse in, bent the pin back with a fork (unplugged from battery obvi), and we were all good.
What are the freaking odds of them having that hanger though 
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yeah i dropped it to 50 not too long ago. i haven’t pushed it too hard but it’s been running fine since that event.
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dude, it couldn’t have been more perfect. if they didn’t have the hangar, i would’ve had to go belt drive and a slightly unfamiliar setup on the stooge links. now i can run the newbees until we’re done racing. i’m also able to go on the group ride tonight now.
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I lied, it’s on a full stooge setup now. thank you @MoeStooge for getting those 3links built so quickly on such short notice. After I get back home, I’ll post a comparison of them both. And thank you @Skyart for the motors and letting use ya tools.
@janpom @rpasichnyk I had my board ghost into a wall and the Megan has been acting up ever since. I thought it was a loose cable but they both seem to be fine. The screen cuts to white randomly and then has to reset or will sometimes be stuck on the white screen till I restart my board. Any idea what could possibly be happening?
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Does that happen randomly or upon hard acceleration? I have heard of people having a voltage drop on the ESC’s 5V rail as high currents are pulled.
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i’m pretty sure it wasn’t just in hard pulls. probably won’t mess with it till i get home but i’ll put it in the other uart port and see if there are any changes
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it just happened not too long ago and it happened right after a hard pull
You might want to try adding a small capacitor to the 5v rail.
Some of the first gen little foccers greatly benefitted from a small cap
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