Sippa's First Build / AWOL 40" LB / Evolve GT Trucks and AT Wheels / Racerstar 140kv motors / Foc Boxes / GT2B + mod

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Its really my fault, I’ve had those for a few years I used them to power a fish finder on my kayak and I shorted one one day damaging a cell. It balaced up ok but underload on the eskate it was discharging to 3.2v while the other 3 cells were at 3.5v so best not to be using it anymore… don’t want a board fire :wink:

Ah ok, I thought they were new

Although one of the 2s Turnigy Nano Techs I bought the other day arrived with less than 3 volts on both cells, I contacted hobby king and they sent me a new one straight away so I have nothing to complain about with Hobbyking.

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Got the 12s wired up today. Took it for a short circuit of the neighborhood. Its scary at the moment :joy: can putt around but a little slip of the thumb on the nano x and could easily go horizontal. I will have to tweek the current settings.

Its running sensored foc so with some subtle precision movements on the remote and i can crawl away from a dead stop with ease.

So I could play around with settings for forever and a day but if any of you with experience on setting up dual vescs on sensored foc could give me some input that be great? Specifically <egzplicit as you have alot of the same gear.

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Have current settings at 40, -40, 25, -12. Seems pretty good at that, more than I can use at this stage.

Did a circuit around my local streets tonight and did some sums on range. Approx. 26km i calculated for 4.15v to 3.5v per cell. Does that sound about par for a lipo 12s pack at 10amp hour 30C?

Yeah that would be about right for a pnuematic setup, your averaging 17Wh/km which is quite good. With street wheels you would get close to 40km

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Thanks Pat

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Been a while working on this but I got an enclosure modelled to house the dual foc box aluminium Servisas enclosure… haha its an enclosure for an enclosure. Sending it for printing in ABS.

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Yeah my print turned up, thought it came out pretty good, a little clean up but I think it will do just fine.

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I will have to use some Sugru to seal up some gaps around the aluminium enclosure and I’m using neoprene tape as a gasket against the board.

Won’t be water proof, but certainly water resistant and splash proof.

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Battery enclosure with lid and xt90 anti spark switch, send for printing! not too long now to have everything for a full assembly!

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Hi all, been a busy 2018 and I never spent enough time finishing off this build last year.

Had some holidays so was able to get the enclosures onto the board and have it up and running.

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Have made a slide on the lid to house the xt90 anti spark connector. Works well! 20190102_102357 20190102_102409

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The battery enclosure was a terrible print. I had to clean it up and glue on some repair peices so i wasn’t very happy with that so i will buy a 3d printer and do good one later on. This will do for now.

Cheers

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