Thanks so much for the link @flatlinecustoms. In the end did the suggestions in the thread help i.e. upping the min bat setting and changing the control to current no rev w/ brake?
@photorph I’m trying to troubleshoot it myself a little first to see if I can fix it before sending it to LHB to save him money and both of us time. Adjusting these few settings doesn’t seem that difficult either – if the issue were something bigger like replacing a major component I’d definitely send it back. Playing with the BLDC tool has given me a lot of insight into how the board behaves and I do want to invest some time into learning how to both maintain and ride the board. In regards to the boosted board, we just swapped with each other and rode around the block. I had my daughter and my wife/his girlfriend were there so we didn’t want to just go off cruising (although the urge was there…). I’m ~225lb, so the flex on the BB was significant, I never really got comfortable on it but then again I only rode it a short time and I’m still new to this. The roads in Chicago are extremely bad. I’ve taken drainage trenches (you can see one the middle of the road in the video I posted from IG earlier) speed bumps and all kinds of general Chicago road BS and haven’t had much problem. Although, at the end of a ride I do feel like I’ve been sitting on a riding mower all day.
@guyguy removing the reverse worked when I was in the north Georgia mountains. Month later under extreme braking around my house had it happen again. I haven’t had time to replicate and take inside to check faults so I have not adjusted anything just yet. I would definitely try the settings first.
So I tested brakes today, they didn’t go out on my while riding. But sometimes when I have the board standing, if I give full throttle then slam the joystick all the way back nothing happens and then I just fully lose connection with the remote. It stops working completely, I have to turn the remot on and off for it to work again.
I don’t know if I should worry about this or not…since while actually riding I haven’t had an issue (yet).
From what I’ve read I think this is less an issue for dual mounts because the motors are smaller and the braking is spread across both. Your dual has 2 vescs, one for each 6355 which is smaller than the 6372.
That’s good to know. Like I said no issues while riding yet, however see video below. It totally cut off. Video is unlisted and I’ll remove it in a few days.
I was told, btw, gunning the control forward then switching to reverse was a bit of a cardinal sin that goes back to RC racing. Not sure why though…
I changed mine to brake no reverse in BLDC and increased the settings to -15 bat -55 motor in (or lowered depending on who’s talking). We’ll see if this helps.
I’ve never seen a steez do this before. You say it always re-pairs immediately though when you turn the remote off and back on again? That’s some spooky shit, i can’t think of anything that would cause that.
Yep it repairs when you turn it off and back on. It’s spooky, let’s hope it doesn’t happen while riding…but just in case I’m usually ready to foot brake and I never slam the brakes. So far so good with that, what will be really scary is if it just cuts out even when I’m not slamming the brakes because I’m not expecting that to happen.
I have never seen a steez disconnect for no reason. I suspect maybe there is a voltage drop to the receiver as a result of all the power swishing around when you slam it stopped like that under no load. Things behave differently when there’s no load on the motors, meaning when you aren’t riding. It sounds crazy but i was having issues initially tweaking that board’s settings because on the bench the motors would get hot to the touch while running them for a while to test the battery. But then i took it out on the streeet and they didn’t. So after lowering a bunch of numbers out of caution i ended up putting them right back up where they were.
All of that is to say that what it does when you aren’t on it isn’t necessarily an indication of what it will do when you are on it, but these types of things are very interesting and worth looking into.
I think you’re on to something…cuz so far no failures yet while riding, but I can replicate the shutting down each time when I just have the board against a wall.
i’d have to order something, and it would add delays, but if you want i can totally do that. I can get some blue LEDs and hide them in the board somewhere to shine down on the street. I’ve got everything else i need to complete your build so i’m going to be filling out that thread soon with sk8 porn. Let me know.
