Hey! Im currently picking parts for a board and i have no idea how to choose a good/ compatible ESC (I’d like to keep the build relatively cheap) Im thinking about using:
and Battery: https://www.mboards.co/collections/batteries-1/products/10s3p-battery-complete-battery-solution
any suggestions?
Your best bet is just to get a vesc. They are made by several different companies with a popular choice being the focbox. You can get a cheap single motor esc like the versions shown above but they won’t be able to handle large continuous currents and work better for commuter boards with small batteries.
In short, get a vesc, you can get them as cheap as $100 for a single motor.
Any suggestions as to which VESC?
If you have limited money you could probably just get a maytech from someone like @psychotiller https://psychotiller.com/products/shop/speed-controllers
Or if you want to spend a little more
https://www.enertionboards.com/FOCBOX-speed-controller.html
Hobby king probably Sells vescs as well
Thanks, hopefully the battery, motor and VESC work together
They will. The vesc is set through usb to detect the settings of your motor.
O.K. thank you, and yes the board beeps all the time. The braking should not be used without battery, or is the breaking disabled then. If not the capacitors could burn? Have not tested yet. The delay when stopping acceleration I can confirm too. But I have the feeling that the delay is somewhat random. Possibly the remote signal is to weak ?
I know this is what they use in the Rideriptide R1. I’ve been considering swapping it to 10s and or tossing some different Motors on there. ( especially since @hyperIon1 has some 5055s for sale) Maybe new 5055s or upgrade to 6355. I’ve got spare motor mounts for both. Anyone know if they run better on a high or low KV?(at 10s)
Low, the esc has a erpm limit meaning you can’t exceed about 6400 rpm, which with common gearing is about 40km/h. At 10s the best kv to maximise torque and speed is around 150- 190kv, any higher and you aren’t gaining anything, just loosing some possible torque.
The most effective way to gain more speed is to the change the gearing to a lower ratio like 2.25:1 or 2:1
Thanks pat. I’m okay with this board only going 20mph. I honestly just want to sell it to my buddy because he really wants it (and I’d rather build my own compact board) but I think it would probably hurt my wife’s feeling seeing it was a gift.
You know what to do then… give her the board to ride together
Oh that’s kinda the plan. Thing is I know she’s more comfortable (especially at higher speeds) on a longboard. I’ll probably turn my Santa Cruz drop deck into a basic build for her.