I haven’t shared a build thread in some time, so here goes! When the killshot groupbuy happened back in August I had to jump on it and start planning a new build. First step was to customize the new deck and give glass frit a try.
First was a color change to bright green for the bottom and sides followed by priming the top to be hydrodipped in oils slick.
Next was spar urethane and heavy glass frit.
Next task was the drivetrain. Picked up a couple of TB 6374 190kv motors and put them on the TB 218 trucks and v5 fixed mounts
Was lookin good, but then Dexter decided to drop the new cnc trucks and V6 mounts, so naturally…
The new trucks needed a gloss finish, they came matte…
Also bought an illume light set from @Genex
Tried rear mounted motors but had to switch to forward. This was a little tricky with the length of the v6 mounts so I used my heat gun to add some clearance on the enclosure.
Switched all the hardware I could to stainless steel because everything crusts here in hawaii. Here are the sixshooters before and after bolts were switched out.
Next phase was to begin the battery pack build. I ordered 60 samsung 30qs on black friday for a great deal from 18650batterystore.com and ordered some 3d printed cell holders. All of my packs follow the chakra design of cell-level fusing. I’ve not had an issue with any pack yet even with all those solder joints on the cells
P Groups glued together
Arranged
Labeled, time for soldering.
P Groups soldered up, time to make sure the pack will fit in the enclosure how I hoped
Fitment verified, now for some series connections and a charge only bms
Voltage verified for all groups and whole pack, time for some shrinky dinky wrap
Plugged it all in and ran some sensored FOC detections without any issues and bound the mini remote. Time to clean up and secure the insides and mount the power button and charge port.
Finally, some finished build pics!!
Test ride was awesome!! A little sluggish but only from settings that I changed afterwards. I upped the positive ramping time to .1sec, increased throttle expo to 15%, and upped the switching frequency to 3khz. All that is left now are new bushings that are ordered already, metr pro module(also on the way), and upgrade remote with better power switch, rechargeable battery and voltage display so it is up to par with the rest of my builds. Currently waiting for the rain to pass before I can try out the new settings. All in all I LOVE this thing!!
