Beginners Guide to building your own Electric Skateboard Drivetrain

ESK8 Mechanics
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when I ride mine the belt tension keeps Coming lose does anyone know what could be the issue?

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The belt only gets lose when I get on it, but when I tight the belt again and let it free ride without me being on it the belt doesnā€™t get lose.

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Motor mount isnā€™t tightened or its moving or one of ur pulleys is moving

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Just knocking about the forum researching 3mm pitch on 15mm pulleys and came across this goldmine! loads of in depth information,must have taken ages to write upā€¦good work! @onloop

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I use 3mm pitch pulley with a 149 kV motor. I have stripped my belts using a 48:18 tooth ratio, but not at 48:32 ratio.

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The sk3 models are quite popular for esk8

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I know that this one is a basic guide but do you have a more technical version or know where I can find one?

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How more technical? I think youtube videos also might be a good startā€¦ or just lots of reading on forumā€¦

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I was looking for the math that he was talking about but I found it now thanks.

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Great video, really thanks for all the informations :wink:

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Thanks for sharing

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@Kelan ok I bought those but the chain is too short where can I get a longer chain

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Thanks for the animated info, there is a real effort here

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idler

You just just send it and build your own.

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Man, after reading all that, Iā€™m totally glad I already decided to build all of my boards with the Torque Boards 90kvdirect drive kits haha. I get it though. Iā€™m a gear head. I just like everything smooth and clean on the board. Iā€™ll try the belt thing sometime, but my first deck is definitely gonna be the integrated motors haha. Gonna do 110mm wheels I think. Mostly flatland in boston.

Does anyone have any expuwith the Torque Boards parts? The build quality and machining seems damn nice.

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TB products are top notch and customer service is great.

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^ just what I wanted to hear. I think this board Iā€™m doomg is gonna be bad ass. Iā€™m sorta modeling it after the M1 with the lights flushed into the corners. Iā€™m also gonna have working brake lights and high and low beam projector LED headlights made from motorcycle fog lights that Iā€™ll control from my Apple Watch, or if a remote has aux functions. My cnc can cut all the nice little pockets and drill tunnels for wiring. Iā€™ll 3d print a little removable door/cover for the battery. Iā€™m gonna make my own charger from a local huge electronics warehouse. The battery life is gonna be in tiny ledā€™s somewhere on the side or bottom of board. I donā€™t think anyone else has ever done that. I wanna go nuts on my first build. Sky is the limit. :metal:t3: I def need to start a thread. Itā€™ll be cool with all the cnc videos Iā€™ll take and the wiring. You guys all know about the batteries and motors, but Iā€™m a specialist in pro lighting engineering, so Iā€™ll try to come up with some ridiculous new ideas for getting us all seen by cars and being able to see killer stones and sticks in the road at night LOL :joy::rofl:. Awsome. Iā€™m glad I came across this forum last night. Lots of great info on here.

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Thanks Onloop. My guess is that you would increase the battery voltage from 24 to 36 volts.