My son is really wanting a onewheel for Christmas or his birthday, but they are dang expensive. I see a disassembled onewheel xr for sale locally stating that there is some calibration issue with the motherboard. I know that I can convert it to vesc with a ubox, bypassing the bms, is there anything else to it other then wiring modifications and programming it?
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If the battery is good you should be able to bypass the bms and get it running with just a UBox.
That it a big if as they are all pretty old now
Sometimes fitting the UBox in the front box is hard.
Finding a working used pint X may be a better deal…
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You may know someone letting one go for cheap around there
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Supposedly the battery is a new long range battery. And this board will be used off-road for him to get around at our dirt bike races so I read that an XR would be better then a pint off-road. The races have a strict policy on pit riding, so he can’t really ride his gas or electric dirt bike or surron. Supposedly they dont hassle kids on these one wheels though.
I assume there are some foot pad sensors or something on the one wheel? I’ve never messed with one, is there built in ports on the ubox for it?
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The XR does get around better than the Pint.
There are motor and sensor and battery wires you will have to mess with.
It’s fairly complicated. But all doable with patience.
I would still look out for a used Pint X.
They can get around ok. pint is too weak.
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Ubox is the cheap and easy way.
Check out pev.dev for vescing a onewheel.
With a ubox you’ll need a momentary switch. You can fit the ubox into the stock xr box, just omit the 16 pin molex and use a gland
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