After doing a lot of research I decided to build my first electric skateboard. I mostly followed the model of the Boosted Board. I was also inspired by the builds of:
Many thanks to everybody who spent the time to answer my questions.
For people reading this, I never did real woodwork in my life and I started with almost no tools at all.
I hope this helps people who wants to build something similar and have no tools/experience .
Parts
Board: Loaded Vanguard Flex 3.
Trucks: Caliber II.
Wheels: Orang Gatang Kegel 80A
Mounts, pulleys and belts: 63 mm system with 15T\32T gear from Alien Power System.
Motor: Sensored 6355 190 kV from DIY. I actually bought two in order to add a second motor later.
You should do the clear coat after the routing, install the nutserts/enclosure, position the VESC and motor mounts, trucks, when everything else has been installed in a perfect position at least once, begin with the detailing part such as clear coat,
at the last moment after you have riden your board and there’s nothing else to do, do the grip tape, otherwise you will suffer by scratching that sweet clear coat finish.
Looking forward to this build dude! I am thinking about something similar and was wondering if you have a scheme for your battery setup. I mean how will you connect them.
thanks and good luck!
If you do get a spot welder. Just tossing this out there. The 120V models from China are not the same as the 240V models. The circuit board in the 120V spot welders have either a blown traces on the board or a blown triac. I haven’t seen an issue with the ones on 240V.
Do you have a diagram for your battery? I am wondering how the two big groups are going to be connected being end to end like that. Looks great though!
Sorry, my bad, been a while so I lost track of this thread. One question though, how do you plan on attaching the bottom two groups in that diagram? I’m sorry if these are stupid questions but I am trying to learn as much as possible about these packs and have a hard time understand how you would attach those packs if they are end to end like in the bottom two groups in your diagram.