I know they are fairly low cost and cheap, but it’s my first build so I’m going cheap just to get something that will work and so I can refine my ideas of building. If anyone has a good idea for a board and some better mounts/pulleys that would work with caliber II trucks, it would be appreciated to tell me.
As stated, do not buy that ESC, because you dont want to be going really fast and have your board suddenly brake or just not respond at all to inputs… then you better be wearing slide gloves.
Would hope to use either a metal or 3D printed container. Dont know what deck im getting yet, but I hoped it would have enough space. Would it be better to go for 2 3s’s?
2x3S would use width of the board better. Space shouldn’t be a problem, but height might be. I’m dealing with similar problem, I have 45mm high lipo. It should fit without a problem, but ground clearance will be reduced. I just hope it won’t be a big problem once the board is assembled.
Since the battery width is not that big, you might plan to place some components next to it. That’s what I was wondering as well. But it depends on size of the deck.
They might end up being slightly more than the 260kv set I listed above, but with a better kv and better esc. Would I need to use 10s with these or would 6s still work?
What do you mean by better kv? Kv doesnt determine the quality of the motor. You probably want to go with lower kv like 190kv since you are going single drive. Lower kv means more torque but less rotations per minute (rpm). With higher kv your rpm will be higher but you will sacrafice torque.
That is what I meant by better. The slightly lower KV would be better, atleast for my purposes since Im not going for speed and would prefer the torque.