That’s certainly an option, but I’ve seen YouTube videos of this ESC and LED’s working together nicely. So I just need to know how to wire it up. So I know it’s possible.
Multimeter ground (black) goes on this black wire
Then move the red wire around
Cool, that’s what I thought. That will help me with poking around! Trying to emulate what this guy did:
If reliability is a trait you like your boards to have, might I suggest using a separate battery for that stuff and make it independent of the drivetrain
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Forgive me for asking, but wouldn’t a relay sourcing power straight from the batteries and getting it’s on/off source from the 2v out on the ESC work? therefore the power comes in at 36v and i use a buck to downgrade to 5v, that should work 100%. what is your concern about reliability?
The number one enemy of esk8 is vibration. Heavy vibration can make stuff fail in ways you never imagined.
You can envision taking the board after you are done with it, picking it up, and hitting it wheels-first as hard as you can against a concrete wall for 45 minutes. Because in fact that is exactly what the board feels while you are riding it.
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A relay will fail quickly and waste power while it’s working correctly. A logic-level MOSFET would be a much better choice
Oh man. This is above my pay grade! I know about relays from dealing with 12v vehicles and stuff, it’s pretty standard to use them. I don’t know how to wire up this MOSFET you mention, leaving me basically at a stand still like when I created this post.
Looks like a foreign language to me… No idea what I would need to purchase, where I would connect things, etc…
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Ahh, nevermind that specific MOSFET turns on at 3V anyway. My bad
Look up solid state automotive relay. I’m not sure how much voltage they handle but it would wire up like a relay and function like a relay but uses much less space, power, and are more reliable. I’ve used them on motorcycles before with good success
do you want the lights to come on when you switch on?
Those won’t be rated for 60V probably. They will contain MOSFETs inside though, wired similarly
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YES!!! I had it wired into the battery before but I hated turning the lights on/off. I want it to be like the video I linked to above.
I was thinking of doing this on my sons meepo and was going to try splicing into the led wiring to the switch. @b264 any reason why this wouldn’t work? I do have a vedder type switch which has all the wiring identified clearly so if I get time I’ll wire up an old strip light to it and see later. The only problem with that esc I can see is identifying the wiring but a multi meter should tell you
You can engineer a solution that will work, sure 
Yeah I mean all you really need is a 5v output from the esc and that’s what the led on the switch requires so should work in theory.
@tkc check back with you in a few hours after i’ve been your guinea pig 
So now the ESC has another failure method that can streetface you
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You get 2 volts from the switch (if you bother reading what I wrote above)