Hey (Please excuse the cheesy name)! So I’m building yet another board. This one is primarily for my commute to work which is about 8km from where I live and mostly flat. Because of that I decided to try out the chinese dual 5055 kit to see how much power it can take. I’m shooting for ~1800W and I think they’ll be able to handle it. Originally I was planning to put them on one of my other builds, but I saw the Jet Spud @JLabs was selling and couldn’t resist making a whole new build with it.
For this one I decided to go all out, Li-ion pack, fancy psychotiller enclosure and all that jazz.
Currently I’m waiting on the enclosure and risers to ship, as well as the battery pack. I don’t have the necessary tools to build a pack for myself so @landonkun offered to help me out (THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!).
I went with those cells since from what I can find they seem to have the highest discharge out of any 18650s on the market, and at 1500mAh a 2P is enough range for my commute which lets me make the pack smaller and lighter.
Other things to note, the motors are way to high kV for 10S so I’m going to run them with the ERPM limit at 60k. Any advice on how to set that up to avoid any risks would be appreciated. If I find that I’m lacking power or efficiency because of the limiter, I’m going to try and re terminate the motors to wye which should drop the kV down to roughly 170kV. At that point I’ll probably increase the motor pulley size to get more top speed. If I do that I have a feeling that the belt will be rubbing up against the pulley cover, so I may need to file it down some. Also, the mounts that come with the kit aren’t adjustable in any way so I’ll likely have to file out the holes where the motor mounts on in order to properly tension the belt.
The bushings that the kit came with were complete garbage, and the baseplate they came with didn’t have a long enough kingpin bolt to put on other bushings. Because of that I swapped the baseplate out to a caliber 2 baseplate, and put some Blood Orange 89A bushings on.
I’m super exited to get this thing running, so here are some pictures of what I’ve got so far to please your eyeballs.
Right now it’s only got some 1/8" risers on it. The deck hits the motors before it hits the wheels though and sadly you can’t adjust the motor position. I’ve got some 1/4" risers that are getting shipped over right now so hopefully they should help a little with clearance.
Sadly I’ve ran out of money/time for now, plus it’s all snowy around here so I’ll be waiting till summer to get back too it.
Plan is to route out a few mm of the deck and possibly get a bigger enclosure and maybe try fitting a 30T 10S2P if they ever become available. However for the time being it’s gonna have to wait.
ALRIGHT! SO. Its getting a little warmer out here so I’ve caught the ESK8 bug all over again. The plan has changed a little. Since I might end up upgrading to dual 6355s, a 10S2P isn’t going to cut it. Because of this I’ve decided to go with a 9S 5000mAh 40C lipo setup. I’m also gonna use the Bestech BMS with an eswitch. I whipped up a nice diagram to get everything planned out. The idea is to have everything detachable so I can swap out a batter pack/BMS/charge port/volt meter/switch if anything needs replacing.
Psychotillers on the case making me a custom enclosure with interior dimensions of 340x160x32mm to fit everything and the batteries and everything I need to make a nice wiring setup is on the way here from HobbyKing. Now I’m just waiting on Bestech to get back to me about ordering a BMS.
I’ve got some 0.25" risers on it, and anyways since you can’t adjust the angle of the motor mounts the deck actually smacks into the mount before hitting the wheels.
But the front… The back doesn’t even have to move. I’ve bit the wheels on the Potato multiple times not even trying on 83mm flywheels… Idk…guess you don’t lean that hard…
Because 70mm wheels almost bite… 83 bit all the time for me.
Took a picture of me leaning on it pretty hard with all my weight. I can get the front wheel to bite but it’s pretty hard and I have some decently hard bushings on it so the outside wheels actually start to come off the ground before it bites.
