Visit to Flipsky

[TimR]

I’ve not created a topic before, so here goes (I struggled with the choosing a topic bit especially)…

Tomorrow, I plan to travel from Hong Kong to Shenzhen with my wife. We’re on holiday from New Zealand. I’d like to visit Flipsky, and find out for @BenjaminF why the motors scream like a cut-cat at mid RPM. Why Flipsky? Because it’s better than looking at handbag shops and buying panda themed souvenirs.

Flipsky have moved from where they used to be. This isn’t convenient, but it does mean less handbag shops. I don’t yet know if the journey is achievable, but possibly.

@glyphiks would like to know why they don’t make anything good. I don’t promise to ask this question in these exact words until I know that I have safe passage out of China.

I would also like to provide my own feedback in person. This is, that new products seem to resolve known faults but without acknowledgment of such, how does one make the decision to trust the new model? While I’ve been prepared to waste my time repairing ESC’s, most esk8 riders have better things to do with their lives and are less willing to take the chance. I know first hand that the V6.7 addressed the faults with the V6.6, but their documentation shows no mention of this.

If there are any more questions anyone would like answered, let me know. If I don’t respond, either the train ride to 20th Floor, Building 8, Block B, Songhu Zhigu, No. 11 Yanhe South Road, Liaobu Town (Songhu Zhigu) might not have gone so well, or I got eaten by a dolphin.

[CarelessAquarist]

I think there was a bit on the topic of their motors resonating above and below this.

Gettin' another build together: 16s8p | New MTB deck and other fun toys

Update on the flipsky 63100 motor screaming. I opened up another 63100 I got a while back, and this one does not scream at all. It feels like it has a little bit more cogging torque, not sure where that comes from, but the parameters are the same. I did notice that the one that does NOT scream has a slightly larger gap between the can and the bell. According to my caliper, the difference is 0.7mm vs 1.00mm. Maybe the solution to the screaming is to add an additional 0.5mm shim to the shaft …

Currently 1/5 times I try accelerate past 30 something kph my 63100s shake and rattle so bad they lock up, even though the can feels solid up down as well as left right and looks fine inside. This would be an extreme example and let me know if you would like me to check anything or provide videos.

[Venom121212]

Do they pronounce it Flipskee or Flip Sky?

I always read it as Flipskee in my head because it rhymes with flimsy.

[jack.luis]

@TimR

why the motors scream like a cut-cat at mid RPM. Why Flipsky?

Please make it clear to them that this scream is 50% of the reason people don’t use them over reachers. The other half is that they don’t cool as quickly. I care more about the first part. Get rid of the flipsky scream and I’ll switch over for good. I like my motors sealed

[SirVesa]

You’re referring to PDF (Peak Dolphin Frequency) and it’s a feature that no other manufacturers have been able to achieve.