It’s mainly a backup if your brakes stop working due to a dropped connection. If you’re going 18mph on a belt drive and release your throttle, you will be down to 12mph on flats pretty quickly. So you can employ your footbrake then if your remote fails.
Any remote can lose connection, so we shouldn’t be 100% relying on them to stop us anyways. Obviously a remote that doesn’t ever drop connection is better and safer, but the fear of a drop connection shouldn’t be what stops you from going faster than an EGO. I push faster than my EGO.
Any updates yet? It said stock arrives after Sept 20, and for me in Australia, it’s almost the 21st. Are there any more pictures? Or any videos of it in action lately? @onloop replied a week ago, but we haven’t seen the full finished product yet.
We made some last minute changes that required parts of the mold to be modified & my china factory went on holidays for 4 days, so sadly we are behind schedule.
I hope everyone is happy to wait for a better product?
ALSO, due to some doubt surfacing in the community about the reliability I have decided to do a public beta test process before shipping the orders, I will be sending a few of the final prototypes out to people who can test it in a unique environment. Hopefully ill get these out early next week. Ill be sending one to @Michaelinvegas and a few other senior esk8 members, only after they confirm the product is ok will i ship the orders.
Yeah, I’m still really unsure about pre ordering, I really love the design and the fact that it’s a thumb wheel sort of remote, but I’m not sure about how reliable it is, after what happened to the winning remote. On the other hand, if I pre order now, I get it for a pretty nice price. Hopefully the beta testers will come out with reviews before the sale ends.
Well, it is very important to get a reliable remote. Therefore i can understand your fear.
but onloop has delayed the current orders to make a beta test. If the beta test fails i dont think he will just sells the broken products… why should he make a beta test when he does not care about the result.
That being that i highly assume that if there is any mayor problem like reliablity or so he will delay the preorders again and make sure that everything is okay! So you dont need to worry to get a reliable product with this preorder!
I guess so. He mentioned that some of the ‘senior esk8 members’ will get the beta, so I expect people like longhairedboy and probably some mods to give an honest review about whether the product should be sold or not. I think I’ll go with it, since I haven’t really seen a remote like it yet in the market, and it’s exactly what I’m looking for.
I’d love to as well, I live in Australia too, so feedback would get to him pretty quickly. Unfortunately I’m an esk8 noob, and don’t have my board ready. The remote is my last piece, and it’s just a matter of getting my battery pack done when my BMS arrives.
here is some footage of the new NANO-X controller in use, this controller has an automatic binding function which makes setup easy & the range seems very good, however we don’t have much radio interference at my house.
the firmware probably still needs some tweaking as it appears the brake is a bit too aggressive… of course, you can make changes in the vesc too to fix that. However, I think it’s better to perfect this in the hand controller firmware as much as possible. Everyone is different & has different expectations so at the end of the day you might just rely on the vesc for fine tuning.
Still waiting on the beta units, they will arrive at Enertion HQ soon, then ill send them out to the selected forum members for their feedback.
Overall I am very excited about this, it feels nice in the hand, very compact without feeling too hard or uncomfortable to hold.
you can see in this photo one of the major changes we had to make with the mold, this gives the thumb-piece a track to move back & forth on, it also prevents it falling out, it will resolve many issues and make the throttle feel much more solid under thumb.
this delayed production around 2 weeks, but definitely worth it.
THE BETA TEST UNITS I AM SENDING OUT ARE STILL ABOUT 1 WEEK AWAY
