Ya think they would work with five stars?
How much range do you get with the 12s8p? I have practically the same battery and I’m about to get my 9ers on it running, I’m wondering if there’s a range estimate. I only weight 120 lbs.
They’re more efficient than I thought. I get 25-35mi.
You need hubs that can handle 9in tires. They’re super wide, too wide for narrow hubs
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Five stars can run mbs style 9ers fine and they seek to be quite wide so maybe can do 9.5-10?
Remind me what five stars are again?
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Yeah these are too narrow I think
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I’m so bad at updating this thread LMAO
I got 13inch tires on this thing for deeper snow. I plan to ride this thing around Manhattan tomorrow during the crazy snowstorm. Tonight I installed headlights
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Riding in deeeeep snow like this has me pinned full throttle or close to it for over a minute at a time. I’ve never killed the pack in this board quicker than I just did riding in NYC from midtown to Soho
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Where did you get this from? 
13x5-6 tires are crazy! Where’s the tire, rim from too? I wonder what you’d recommend for a new build since the B1 AT is discontinued. What motors and ratio? How’s your torque?
Torque hasn’t been an option mostly because I lose traction before it can be an issue.
I plan to switch this board fully to Jackson drives with a 6.x:1 ratio.
This part was designed by me and machined by @Evwan . He did a really good job.
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Amazing!
It needs some good traction control. Have you tried duty cycle mode?
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Yes I have and it works soooo well. The reason I almost never use it is because of how much of a hassle and risk it is to switch modes. Especially on 4 wheel drive.
Id pay a pretty penny to have someone program a vesc app that lets me switch between normal current mode and duty cycle mode with one click for all the escs.
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One click from the remote? I looked through your thread, what remote are you using?
If you had an AUX button on the esc or remote, this (I think) would be trivial to implement in Lisp.
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I’m using 2x maker x dv6 pros.
My remote is a puck 2 which has an aux 5v rail on the receiver I can trigger on/off from the remote
I’ll start the bounty at $100
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You can do it but it isn’t pretty. My first iteration of the android remote worked like this. You could change from current control to duty on the fly.
You need an arduino to convert the pwm from the puck to a current command(or duty) and send it to vesc via the vesc uart library. But the big caveat is that vesc doesn’t recognize it as a remote ..
I think a proper traction control algorithm is a better solution
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Untested pseudo code, but yes, it can be this simple.
This would be run on the esc.
(gpio-configure 'pin-adc2 'pin-mode-in-pd) ;This can be any availible GPIO pin
(loopwhile t
(progn
(gpio-read 'pin-adc2)
(if (= (gpio-read 'pin-adc2) 1) (conf-set 'motor-type 0) (conf-set 'motor-type 2)) ;motor-type 0 is BLDC, 2 is FOC
(sleep 0.50) ;sleep half second
))
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Overall, I agree.
Vesc could use some more attention in the traction control area.
This gets me thinking, I wonder if a better traction control algorithm could be implemented in Lisp?
I’d bet it could.
This is a nice idea, changing to bldc. I tried bldc once but couldn’t detect the motors
I have tried it but lisp is too slow and eats resources
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There’s some nuances to this project I need to write out carefully lol
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