I have built an electric Longboard as my graduation work for high school. It was awesome and I had a lot of fun building it. However since the LiPo Batteries gave up on me I wanted to build a new one. I am in College now and it would be perfect to have a smallish Cruiser Board as a transportation from A to B.
My wishes for this board are the following:
Small enough to carry it in one hand whilst walking (Cruiser Deck)
Not too heavy
Decent range (around 15 miles (more would be even better))
Doesnât has to be fast (16 mph is fine for me)
I would like to use my âoldâ parts from my Longboard. I own the following:
180mm Paris trucks (with motor mount welded on)
Orangatang Kegels
Turnigy SK3 6364 190
Gear ratio 3:1
In my old build I used a pair of 6s LiPoâs in parallel. However I would love to use a battery pack with included BMS and On Off Switch (however it has to support 220V and has to have the Swiss inlet), since charging was a bit of a pain with the lips charger.
And I would like to use a dedicated ESC for esk8s, in my last build I used a car RC ESC, which made a whole lot of noice, while braking and braking was a bit aggressive for my taste.
All in all I would like to build something similar as the new Boosted Board mini (range of the X and speed of the S).
Do you have any suggestions for the missing parts for my build? (cruiser deck, battery, ESC (VESC?)) and should I keep the motor or switch that one up as well?
I would be very thankful for any suggestions regarding this build. Thanks in advance and greetings from Switzerland.
im doing something similar right nowâŚmaking a 10s3p 27.5" cruiser with dual 6355 motors and these 76mm wheels as i thought the smaller wheels would look better with the smaller deck
i wonder if you could fit a 10s3p battery underneath an arbor pocket rocket?
im no expert with batteries, but from what ive read, aside from a 10s3p having better range, people are often underwhelmed with the power of 10s2p batteries (which I originally wanted to do)
hoping for 15+ miles of range and a top speed somewhere between 20-25 mph
I can speak to the quality and functionality of FOC boxes if you have the budget. Alien power systems has a very small anti-spark on/off switch. The bms normally runs off of 25.6V or the normal voltage of the battery. You need to get a power supply to power the bms. A laptop style power brick or 3D printer power supply generally work well
Thanks for the reply. Those wheels would look amazing with an arbor board!
Yeah I was hoping to get a smaller battery and sacrifice speed for that. I am still debating on what kind of parts Iâm going to go with
Does â27.5â cruiser" mean Penny board now? Or am I missing something?
Cruiser to me, means anything comfortable for cruising, which I find Pennyâs to be the opposite. What I think of a cruiser as is something wide, comfortable, beginner friendly featuring soft, yet small cruising wheels. Something like a 1980âs skateboard with 60mm wheels and 10inch wide
At Tactics board shop online the cruiser selection features all âshapedâ decks or novelty style type decks basically the opposite of functional, yet I find them extremely functional. Decks like the Welcome brand or shaped Anti-hero stuffâŚanything 9 inches wide and most of them have longer wheelbases.
Thereâs also the âditchâ skateboards which are basically the same thing, because ditches typically have crappy non-smooth cement and they are sometimes dirty with gravel, those who skate them use a larger and softer wheel, but not quite âlongboard wheelâ sizes. Powels Gslides or Ricta Clouds fit the bill.
I see many younger people calling Penny boards âcruisersâ and Iâm confusedâŚI totally think of what @b264 just posted as a cruiser, and I think of a Penny (anything shorter than 30 inches) as a PennyâŚ
Well charging didnât always go well. I used a LiPo charger and it never read 6 cells and then I had to charge as a lower battery pack and go upwards until it finally read 6 cells. I thought, that I had discharged my batteries way too much. But I had enough Voltage, that it shouldnât have read such a low voltage
If your going to use a 6s4p you might as well go 10s3p as itâs only slightly more cells and wonât need as much current, it will also have more range