And yeah, I am slightly bothered. Esk8 is an inherently risky sport and if you choose to be a vendor in this scene you should be ready to answer questions about why you chose to make it riskier.
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You have a lot of stamina with the amount of riding youâve been doing in here 
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Holy shit, so much anger! This happens to me if I donât get enough beer or skating.
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I think Al is being entirely reasonable here.
@sugandese is like the top troll of the forum. He loves getting a rise out of people. Gets him all bricked up.
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Wish I was bricked up - I got old weatherboards and a paintbrush to contend with now.
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Fun fact:
19 out of 19 anonymous DIY esk8ers wouldnât accept a battery product with a bare negative terminal.
Results harvested from a completely unrelated survey.
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I was gonna make a joke about it being winter, but half of the argument is coming from the folks down under 
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How to decide which pole to ground then?
Donât BMS usually cut the negative wire, opposite to a car electrics so on this theory why not ground the positive instead of the negative?
Not much going on then?
One could ask the same about you mate, but again, we are here to discuss the topic at hand.
Oh yeah the big issues. If weâre worried about the children, the chassis has the potential to become live if it isnât grounded.
Iâm done talking to you Chris, you donât converse in good faith.
For what itâs worth, @MoeStooge i think you should reconsider selling this to people.
Maybe for you and your race team this might be acceptable, but I donât see how you can sell this to anybody knowing full well that itâs of questionable design and safety.
Perhaps if you had different people in your circle, ideas like this may have been questioned/explored before bringing product to market.
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So heâs wired it the safest way possible and youâre worried about safety?
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Nothing here is âgroundedâ. That would require a connection to earth.
The chassis is used as the negative bus.
It, along with anything conductive in contact with it, is live can complete (short) the circuit if it comes in contact with positive.
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Lol, that is just silly. Itâs certainly not the safest possible way. Whether or not the safety is significantly worse is the only remotely debatable thing. Basically, no one in Eskate does anything in the safest possible way. That would involve having a fuse somewhere between your battery and one of the leads or even somewhere internal to the battery, at the very least, and Iâve not seen anyone on here fusing their batteries. The standard in electric cars is to have it in the center of the battery so that when you remove it, youâre separating the battery into two packs with half the voltage. If you were trying to make the safest possible Eskate, youâd do something similar, especially if using more than 12s where youâre getting into actually dangerous voltages.
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Youâre right a fuse would be ideal. I should have said itâs the safer to ground it rather than not.
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In what way do you think it is safer? I can think of quite a few situations where it is less safe and havenât come up with a single where it is more safe. Again, I donât even know if Iâd say those situations where it is less safe are a big enough deal that it would matter hugely to me, but they do exist.
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You donât think it would be safer for a fault current to pass to that ground rather than metallic parts remaining live? I understand neither situation is ideal but hardly reason for todayâs shit storm regardless.