lol da best pun
Do you have any better exploded views of ur motors or can u tell us what the shaft and bearing housing materials are made of?
Is the rubber polyurethane?
How many amps will the escs be capable of pulling maximum and what max voltage?
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I have my own X1 but had not deformed after times use, can you show the picures?
Hi Hummie, We have exploded views of the prototype motor on the Kickstarter main campaign page, and released a photo of the final version of our stator here in an update: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1800147378/mellow-the-electric-drive-that-fits-under-every-sk/posts/1551988
Yes, polyurethane. Let me get back to you on the other questions.
the stator looks more like a mockup in plastic or something. it doesnt look like steel which it must be I dont see an exploded view but just the outside and how the tire attaches. Maybe I missed it but could you link me to an exploded view please? is it possible for the user to open the motor?
how long and wide is the stator? the more info you give us the more we can figure if the power will be enough for us or if the motor will possibly deteriorate. Dont things sold in germany have to last two years or something…some guarantee
Those are the sexiest windings I have ever seen.
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Maybe that’s the secret sauce?
It has to be steel. It’s the best/only thing for a stator. That pic has to be a dummy or whatever u want to call it. Wonder what’s really inside the whole motor. Wonder when it will ever be for sale so we can see. So many secrets in comercial enterprises. Beautiful 3D facades.
you mean prototype?
A prototype would be an early test of something but a transparent stator is non-functional. A stator has to have iron or some other ferromagnetic material.
Yes, that’s a mockup. Stator armature has to be ferromagnetic, as @Hummie said. Rotor can should be too, to increase the permeability (magnetic conductivity) and enhance the electric field within the motor. A certain Mellow clone (which will remain unnamed - hint, there’s only two…at the moment) uses aluminum, racking up waste heat and losing efficiency.
Back to Hummie’s questions: We don’t want to release the max amps figure now so that no one calculates system power erroneously, not including system efficiency. We’ve got 29V in the system now, but could go up to 110V with no big changes.
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110 volts? wow weird. thanks for getting back. I saw the video showing how quiet the esc is. very nice. can you tell us more about it? but more so I really would like to know…
what steel are you using for the shafts and bearing housings and is the motor open-able without a press?
It sounds like you want to do to our Mellow the same thing we do to every other e-skate we get out hands on! First to the dyno, then we disassemble…for science! 
Concerning the materials, we don’t want to release too much right now, but just trust that we did both extensive modeling and real-world stress testing:
How about a never-before-released photo of our production stator instead to keep you interested?
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where did you get the Onan X-1? I would like to buy one for sample trial.
What about the X2
China. Don’t expect a cheaper copy of the Mellow though…100% of dev, manufacturing and sourcing of the Mellow Drive was done in Europe, for piracy, control and quality reasons.
The Onan line is your typical Chinese board stuffed into a plastic box on a truck.
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you even manufacture 100% in Europe? Nice!
Yes. When a smaller company like us does business in China, you still get savings, but you lose so much more, starting with your intellectual property and real control over your product. Nothing else matters after that.
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But couldn’t that all be gotten around by simply buying just one of your products and simply reverse engineering it…?