FOC BOX in Black

ESK8 Electronics
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I was one of the unlucky guys that bought an FOC BOX early and had the “wrong resistor” issue. I found out late but Enertion sent me a replacment for it, which i received yesterday. I haven’t programmed/used it yet but will soon. I thought I’d share some pics and some thoughts about it. First and foremost it looks beautiful in black and with the logo embossed into the case. Really nice.

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It has a nice XT60U-M connector, which is a nice touch as well.

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But here is where things get strange. First the motor leads are 14awg. I like 12 to 10 awg. Not a big deal as i can solder some on myself but I wonder why 14awg was chosen when the original FOCBox i had was 10awg i think. Not a big deal.

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Last, there are 4mm bullet connectors on the 14awg motor leads. Round here we, or at least i like to roll with 5.5mm on my bullets but i guess 5.5mm bullets would look strange on 14awg leads. Again, no big deal as I have spare connectors i can use. Just curious as to why these choices were made when the original one i had wasn’t this way.

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Regardless of the motor lead and bullet connector differences, I am excited to finally have a working FOCBOX and am eager to bust some amps through this thing and love the new look. Anyone else have an FOCBOX like this ?

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I think the bullet connectors are okay even at just 4mm, I read somewhere that they can handle more than 60A

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4mm connectors are perfect and i think 14awg is fine if you use it with higher voltage and short wires. 12awg would be better though.

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I’ve been eboarding for some time and all of my esk8 stuff is already 5.5 bullets and 12 to 10 AWG. It’s worked great for me so far and so i think I’ll stick with that but thanks for the advice anyway.