Total Evolve Mod in under 5 minutes

I finally did it. I made a video of the entire process, start to finish. Its a whole five minutes of video since I slowed it down so you could see what i’m doing because usually it only takes 3 minutes to “just throw a new battery in there or something” according to some of the expert commenters on facebook.

you’re welcome.

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That definitely needs to make it to some of the groups on Facebook.

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Thats awesome! Excellent video! Definitely wish id made my battery a little differently.

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feel free to share it around your socials. I’ll probably make more of these. People have been asking me to make videos of my stuff and I couldn’t think of a way to make it interesting. They would all be five hours long and tedious to edit.

but timelapses with dark hip hop and color burned vignettes could be the ticket.

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That is one clean battery build, well done

Do you do the single layer of nickel with a wire at the end joining the P groups on all your batteries or just the Evolve since the current is lowish? I have always done the wire that join the P groups welded between each two cells, so almost no current goes through the nickel, it may have been a waste of time

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Phenomenal video and thank you for putting it in slow motion so our mortal eyes could process.

Good catch on fixing the white non balance wire :stuck_out_tongue: . Truly great work and an inspiration to see from start to finish.

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i use 10mm x 0.15mm nickel on flat packs and usually just jump from between the last two cells. on my double stacks i use 25mm x 0.15mm and usually jump from somewhere in the center of the closest triangle to the end.

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This is just great Damon. Thanks for making it. Amazing the labor involved. Oi vey. What is total time? 5 hours+?

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I am going to slow it down and masturbate to it.

Dude, you would save a lot of time using this type of nickel

https://eu.nkon.nl/accessories/battery-solder-strip/nikkel-batterijpack-verbinding-soldeerstrip-27mm.html

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If u had all the time u wanted and all the coffé u wanted how many hours would it take u? 3-4 hours?

My first battery I did in 2 day’s.

yes but that would mean using fake nickel :laughing:. Too early?

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Unlike @Lee_Wright ,suppliers fear my wrath so they don’t send me fake nickel :rofl:

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You bribe them with goats @taz

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I posted this on Reddit just saying this is how a proper pack gets made and the only reply was telling me how this isnt such a great battery build because of blah blah blah… pretty sure the dude that replied never has built a single battery pack and is always recommending the meepo. Ive yet to see one decent thing come from that subreddit. fucking Esk8 Reddit is for entertainment, not information.

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@Bobby Isn’t he on here? Or are they 2 different anubis :thinking:

Edit: found the answer after some research. He is.


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One thing I noticed or maybe I missed it in the time lapse was the heat shrink going over the balance wires when they were already soldered to the evolve connector.

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Dunno. Don’t really care. It was more about pointing out the ridiculousness of reddit than what one guy said… but I believe you are right

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its not spaced correctly for non-spacer-stacked cells. I used it briefly several months ago but i was wasting a lot of it by clipping it into shape and i just didn’t like using it because of that. Overall time savings for the entire pack was less than 15 minutes, so i just never went back when i ran out.

depending on the day, anywhere from 4 to 5 hours for the total job.

i lost some of the video to my phone being full. I actually had to stop this and dump my phone to dropbox, clear my phone, and start over. By the time i realized i had an error on my screen, i had already shrunk the entire pack and put it in the enclosure already. I had to back it all the way up, which meant tearing it down again and starting from close to where it left off. So, i missed more than half the balance leads. But i showed a few.

Reddit: A wretched hive of scum and villainy.

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I just didn’t see any sliding up the heat shrink I just figured it was that magic that is stored in your hair.

On an unrelated note I just noticed I have a nickname

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My bad, I linked the wrong type.
This is the one not for spacers.

https://eu.nkon.nl/accessories/battery-solder-strip/nikkel-batterijpack-verbinding-soldeerstrip-27mm-3122.html

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