Hi, Joined 6+ months ago and based in the UK, wanted to get started with a build straight away but been away in a country where getting anything would be way too expensive/annoying. Skateboarded a little when I was younger, but never longboarded!
I have a background in software, and I did electronics at school 5 years ago, we’ll see how useful those will be.
Part List
Lush Freebyrd deck that was going cheap on ebay
80mm Orangatan Kegals
Calibur II Trucks ( from Newtow’s Shred, really nice guys, I recommend if you’re in London/UK)
Single 190kv 6364 motor (from Alien Power System)
Mounting kit including 15/32T gears and 15mm belt (from Alien Power System)
looking good! if you want a custom enclosures both I and @psychotiller make them. good luck with that VESC, I’ve never seen anyone use it. Interested to see how it works out.
Ordered a VESC from faraday motion on Friday, there’s little to no feedback on here about them, but the seem like good people!
However, apparently they had a fault on there last batch, on top of that they’re in the middle moving there office to berlin! So I may be waiting longer than expected
I’m also in the UK, down South in Farnham, Surrey.
I’ve got a Lush deck too, I went for the Machine 3D… pretty much the same APS setup too, but 6S with a 5065 motor. I was out on it for the first time on Monday evening in Portsmouth - single drive has so much punch, I had no idea it would be so powerful. So your bigger motor with 10S will blow you away!
In terms of enclosures, I found a great company in the South also, that produces plastic cases…
I’ll keep my eye on this build thread and maybe we could meet up some time
Jonny.
Jonny.
