I wanted to ask anyone who has bought the SK3 6374 motors in the long forgotten past, were they always only 59mm in diameter?
I know, it is written in the dimension drawing on HK, but I still feel rather mislead. Why on earth call it a “63” motor then.
I bought an Sk3 to replace my rather shitty Emax motor, which was actually 63mm in diameter (but the magnet to stator gap is rather big, magnets are not curved and are not glued in straight, so i hope to get more power out of the superior build quality of the sk3)
They have always been off, Hobbyking is weird that way. Despite that though, the sk3s that I’ve had and used pretty intensely for various applications have each performed well for 3 years minimum with no maintenance - I can’t complain.
Good solid lump it was till yesterday when one decided to shit itself for no reason whatsoever. And get this I had just red loctited every grub screw on the thing so now taking it apart is going to be very problematic. @kalebludlow they do fit the 218’s just with about 2mm clearance between everything using the tb mounts.
Not sure I was just relocating the electronics to fit a new battery and noticed one motor wasn’t spinning as freely as the other. It won’t detect at all and the vesc gives 3 rapid red lights then a pause the 3 over and over. When I unplugged the phase wires the vesc is fine. Tried the vesc on the other motor and its cool so I can only assume the motor has a short somewhere and I’m thinking in the hall sensors. Got to strip it down and see. The joys of esk8…
I think if it was the hall sensor you most likely would have fried your vesc. Do the multimeter test, see if the motor self shorted magically. Same test works for the sensors too, dont really need to strip anything yet I would say
it threw a hall sensor error at me a while ago so I disconnected and went sensorless in the vesc tool with no problems for the last 3 months. I’m wondering whether one of the connections has come off and causing the restriction. No smoke or I would’nt have run detection trust me been there done that lol No smells nothing just won’t spin under power. Have you had that light array happen on a vesc before?
Never had any such issues. I havent even tried sensored modes yet eiher, since I only have one motor avilable at the moment. Need to remake my drive to accept the sk3 without shaft length issues. bah
Smoke is not necessary I think, if the enamel peeled off somewhere and the phases are touching it could cause your problem too I believe. Go get that multimeter test done
It’s probably the motor with the least reported failure rate, at least here.
3k+ km, also zero maintenance. Riding through the shittiest terrain my MTB will allow.
I would like to go bigger for increased braking power, but it looks like it is rather difficult to find a reliable replacement.
The SK3 delivers a decent amount of power. Should be a good replacement for that EMAX.
Turns out my sk8 threw a bearing which completely disintegrated and ended up breaking the pcb for the hall sensors. Which in turn has caused an error on the vesc.
you can see the pics on here. Not pretty. @Nowind what size would be good for 12s? the 168kv 6374 or the 6368 190? The sk8 is 190
Personally I say go for the highest kv you can get away with, just because the phase wires are fatter and can push more current. And you are asking between a larger and a smaller motor? How is that even a choice ?
Bummer about the bearing… Looks like it didnt destroy the magnets though? If so, then I still say you are lucky
the point was that hk pull their dimensions out of their arse most of the time so all i wanted to know if I will notice the difference between 168 and 190 but yeah I get it go big or go home lol
97mm
16/36
All I want is to get the closest thing to what i have. Will the slightly smaller can make much difference to performance or indeed the lower kv drop the top end too much? I’m heavy so more torque is great but not at the cost of a considerable drop in speed.
I know man been watching your vids for a while now. Awesome stuff! If I still lived in the uk I would be one of your customers.
The sk8 motor is actually fine now I’ve replaced the bearing, I just don’t trust them anymore. I’ll grab a set of sk3’s can’t hurt hey?
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the point was that hk pull their dimensions out of their arse most of the time so all i wanted to know if I will notice the difference between 168 and 190 but yeah I get it go big or go home lol