Tips and tricks for fitting so much in such a small space

#1

(Thats what she said.)

I am currently trying to cram 4 ESCs, a 10s7P battery, an anti-spark plug, and some other weird stuff into my current project and I decided to turn to the forum.

I know you guys have some advice for making 10lbs of tech into a 5lbs deck.

Any space savings is good with me!!!

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#2

Holy spaghetti Batman.

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#3

oh yeah! The prototype was real!

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#4

connectors take up a lot of space. solder as much as possible.
Also allows for trimming of excess cableage

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#5

Although it will be less convenient if you want to re-purpose the ESCs, you can save space by splicing and soldering the power cables together which would let you remove those bulky 2 to 1 adapters. EDIT: What :arrow_up: said :slight_smile:

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#6

Wire management! If its longer than it needs to be, shorten it. Excess wire can take up just as much if not more space than a few connectors alone.

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#7

Thanks for the quick tip on the wires and connectors.

I am going to stack all the components without wires attached to them and then trim/ route wires as they need to be.

#8

Do you have real time amp draw from your rides?

I recently got a davega on my board and found that all my xt90s are completely unnecessary.

Xt60s save a lot of space, it could be worth your time to swap the vesc xt90s over, while still keeping the battery xt90 as well as the main splitter connectors :thinking::man_shrugging:t2:

I’d circle what I’m talking about on your photo to be more clear but quite honestly I can’t tell what’s what

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#9

I would create things to attach everything to and hold it all together in a solid brick.

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#10

VESC’s are XT60’s. All others are XT90’s

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Left to right is:

  • individual micro USB’s for VESCs, anti spark and charge port
  • throttle indicator lights for left and right
  • Davega OS (with arduino nano stuck on the back)
  • throttle and light controller
    -FSESC x4
  • 10s7p battery.
#11

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what’s all that. It’s like series of series of series connections. You could make one stack of all those connectors without the wires

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#12

Right on I’ll look into how to do that. I bought them pre made.

That harness was build when I thought the esc’s were going to have to be closer to the wheels, before I built the harnesses to extend the phase and sensor wires.

All of this will be going away too.

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#13

Ah shoot this looks sick, I wish I had the funds to make a go-kart haha

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#14

I wish I did too hahaha :money_mouth_face:

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#15

You guys were spot on… I need to figure out a better solution to a running 3 splitters.

Could I just go from 8awg to 4x 10awg runs to the ESC without connector?

#16

Im not proud of him, but this guy works great.

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With some insulation after obviously

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#17

Turn that into a PCB and you got yourself an XT rail hub, not too chabby idea actually.
Might steal it

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#18

The fact that all the connector in parallel are not the same bugs me out a lot more than it should

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