One of the most exciting parts of electric skateboarding is traveling with your board, so for this scenario I’m looking to build travel-size batteries.
According to most airlines you need to follow these rules:
Hey @ZAchNYC what battery brand are you going to use? If you are using Samsung 25R they have 2500mAh, so each 4s3p should have 111 W/Hr , you have room for more capacity to reach the 160w/Hr limit
I am very rarely traveling alone so I can have the people I’m traveling with take one of the packs and I should be fine. I am using Samsung 25r batteries, and my motor kv is 192. If and when I am traveling alone, I can just bring two of the packs and leave the other and the other series connector and I will be fine as well.
I recently carried our Jed Board from Singapore to Sydney and back. I removed both battery packs which are well over 200wh each. I carried the batteries in my carry on inside Kevlar bags. Nobody flinched at either Sydney or Singapore airports.
@chaka stated that it was a “rough guide”, and on the same post, @chaka also said that at 12s it could be pushed up to 200kv “but the top end would feel weak”, which I am not worried about as I don’t plan to be doing anything above 25mph.
I don’t know how the motor would fare with that battery, but I am still pretty new to all of this, so I wouldn’t be the one to ask. I would just search through the forum for builds with that setup and see how it worked for others.
I made a design yesterday and I think I came up with the perfect idea.
I’ll build four 10s1p individual batteries connected in parallel, each battery should have 92.5 watt/hr (travel safe)
As the board I’m building is a Loaded Vanguard, I might be having issues with flex as the battery would be longer than expected, so I will do 4 different enclosures, one for each 10s1p pack, that’ll be mounted next to each but individually bolted to the board to allow flexiness, but connected by 12AWG silicone flex cable and Xt60 plugs.
I’ve been meaning to ask, for the loop keys between the batteries, should I connect them with xt90s’s? Also, wouldn’t the wires on the batteries need to stay connected to the same connector? If so, couldn’t/wouldn’t the TSA see it as one battery as I’m sure it isn’t their field of expertise?