Sounds like you rip on that. 65wh/mi on 2wd is pretty nuts.
Hi! I live in La Mesa and like riding up to Pine Valley and Buckman Springs in the mountains when it warms up. I’ve ridden up the coast to the San Onofre Bluffs campground once and like you said you got to ride the shoulder of the 5 fwy. It’s definitely less than optimal and a nail biting experience. I have plans of riding up to Dana point and beyond for overnight stays based on how these trips evolve. Take care 
Thanks! My limits keep changing as these machines become more fine tuned. That ride I was hammering and the board definitely has more to give. So far I’ve increased phase amps and lowered ramp times. I remember seeing this quote and it seems to apply well to my eboarding so far.
“If you’re going to push a piece of machinery to the limit, and expect it to hold together, you have to have some sense of where that limit is.”
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That build is righteous. I’m happy the deck and enclosure worked out.
I was honestly very concerned everything wouldn’t fit and that wheel bite would be an issue. Thanks a ton, especially for the badass painted rails 
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Awesome build, stoked it’s complete! Great job on the ESC mounting.
Ha, same. Constantly.
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Insane build man, that battery is bigger than what’s on a Lonestar. Good to hear you’re liking the build and pushing it’s limits.
I think capacity-wise they’re about the same.
16s10p BAK45d:
57.6v (nominal) * 45ah = 2592wh
18s8p Samsung 50s:
64.8v (nominal) * 40ah = 2592wh
Bak45d handle sag better though, with how hard he rides he prob gets better range with that. Also his BAK45d pack output around 17kw vs Lonestar 10kw.
Good point, cell wise it’s 16 more cells
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Interesting comparison. Can’t wait to put battery through its paces in coming weeks and see how much range I can get out of it. Booked a camping site 80 miles north from here three weeks from now. Time to put down some training miles! Need to dial in how riding styles affect efficiency.
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Went out for chill -ish Christmas day ride. Hit motor temp cutoff for first time on this build. Was pushing 120a per motor on my first few rides and bumped to 130a + lowered ramp time to .05 for this ride. I’m on 6485 reachers. This ride had many more hills as it was a local ride, short speed section going into a moderate hill climb got me to my 90 or 95c cutoff can’t remember what I’m specifically set at. Moving forward I’ll drop phase amps to 125a per side will see if that helps keep temps cooler.
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Is your thermistor value set for the Reachers In VESC tool? Stock value is 3380, for Reachers it’s 3950.
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Yeah thanks, I did have it set to 3950 when I set the board up. But, I will confirm when I get home it hasn’t somehow defaulted to stock value.
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Whoa thanks. I’m gonna be setting some up for the first time soon and had no clue. Anything else weird?
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Not as far as I know. Even if you forgot the thermistor thing it’s not the end of the world, it just makes your temp readings more accurate (which can help when hitting overtemp faults or whatever)
Visiting family in Rancho Cucamonga, CA. Told wife I had to bring the board for a rip up the mountain. First 1/4 of run was beautiful newly paved asphalt that I was able to get 40-45mph very easily. The middle/top section of road (Mt Baldy Rd) was in terrible shape lots of cracks and holes a very weathered road, surprisingly still able to average 30-35mph pretty comfortably. A true testament to how stable and forgiving these duality trucks are. This rmountain run was definitely a test to see how esc and motors handled thermally (I forgot to connect telemetry app but think I got esc to 60C and motors to around 70C) and averaged 60wh/mi again, I definitely enjoy having the telemetry data on vx4 remote. Being able to monitor esc and motor temps and know when to slightly back off to keep cool is game changer.
I’m getting great stability but have experienced some slight oscillation, will look into removing some steering angle from rear, or replacing stock aps with wfb 95a tall barrel/ tall chubby . Open to ideas anyone’s got as well.
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What’s your current bushing setup, do you have double fat cones in the rear? We might have the same default setup if you bought it pretty recently.
Yeah I’m on the stock aps 92.5 tall barrel and 95 tall fatcone. It’s been really great but looking for the slightest improvement.
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Went out for my first skate packing trip with the street beast. I think I’ll do a recap in the skate packing thread.
I want to talk about efficiency. I’m getting terrible efficiency, it made some sense getting 60+ wh/mi blasting around town. But I went out for a full discharge ride. Kept speeds moderate at 30mph, pretty soft starts, got up to 39mph briefly. Averaged 49 wh/mi and got 45 miles range before remote started yelling at me low battery (3.1v ish per cell). 45 miles is good range in general, but on 10p 45ah pack I’m thinking I should be seeing more range and definitely better efficiency?
Could my 173kv motors on 16s with 18/67 gearing 175mm wheels be causing inefficiencies? Also using 125a motor current max. My hunch is lowering phase current and dropping to 151kv will be steps in the right direction.
Does anyone have insight into what I can do to better optimize my setup?
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What psi you running in the tires? The firmer they are, the better mileage you’ll get