I’m hella late on this one, though it looks like this is the company that helped out Summerboard.
Check out what is written in the orange colored box on their website, lmfao…
https :// soeffects dotcom /summerboard/
Delete the asterixs, spaces, and make the dotcom a .com
Ah makes sense. I just signed up a minute ago. Thanks for informing me.
I have my battery pack sent over to Summerboard for warranty at the moment. I’ve sent 15 to 20 extremely long emails to get things rolling with them for a no power unless the charger is connected issue. I also have a remote and android app disconnection issue so we’ll see if the battery takes care of everything in one go, though I’m a bit skeptical…
I’ll keep everyone updated once I recieve my battery pack back. I’ll even post my personal tests of the battery pack and information of what went wrong if Summerboard will actually provide me with detailed information from the “TechDeck” team.
If things go sour I’ll be posting all of my emails too and from Summerboard for everyone’s entertainment, though it is literally a novel.
A little late to the game here, is there a guide for how to diagnose SBX battery pack problems? board turns off randomly every few yards and SBX batteries are sold out right now Tried leaving on charger for 24 hours in case there’s a dead cell but no luck.
From what I heard some of the boards had “killer motherboards” that would drain one side pack or something. Or wait no that was a battery side issue the killer mobo fried some chips on the BMS.
Basically the easiest thing is grab some diy esk8 parts and start converting to a reliable and serviceable electrical system.
Here’s a photo dump of the lighting mods I made recently. I fit the TelTail Lighting module into the housing for the front caster and broutght the cables out under the gasket. It gives it a nice clean finish that makes it look like the lights came built into the board. It does break the seal of the gasket but I never plan to ride this through water anyways so its not a big to for me.
It seems the motherboard basically contains two, mirrored, VESC like circuits with some components left unpopulated on the second circuit. Because of that I assume the pads here are for a second bluetooth module and two of them are routed to the second micro as UART rx/tx. Youd have to probe the populated bluetooth module to find which pins are rx/tx but I think its possible.
I havent seen that new version of that part. Do have any link to pictures so I can see if I have the latest or not?
Its shown in one of the pictures above, but not very clearly. I just soldered the TTL power leads to the positive and negative of the battery port which is exactly the same as connecting to the charge port positive and negative. Because of how the summerboard switches the power to the ESC, I had to modify the TTL FW a little to delay it’s bootup so that it draws as little current as possible for the first couple seconds.