@E1Allen wow still construction, don’t miss the crazy stop and go traffic going to work. Skateboarding wouldve been fun going to work I use to work on pacom base.
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I live on the North shore and work on Wheeler so I skip most of the traffic
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So, I got these threaded inserts. My intent is to keep the top of the deck clean. I ordered 20. They are 8mm long and my deck is 13mm. So I can have them flush with the deck and not come through the other side. Honestly they are smaller than I expected but I think with most of them used holding the heavy battery they should be fine.
I’ll be drilling a hole about the size minus threads then epoxy inside the hole before I screw the insert inside.
Anyone have issues doing it this way or would have done it different?
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Ordered one of these 15mm pulleys… For my dual setup. Oops.
How tight is tight enough on these six screws for the wheels? Make it sit snug then blue loctite? I had no issues with the 12mm ones but with the 107mm wheels you only get about 9mm of belt coverage
You can see the motor pulley overlaps
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Flip the motor pulley around.
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Depends on the mounts, for instance on the TB mount you can’t do that.
The other answer is longer belts and move the motor pulley away from the wheel
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I do have room to flip the motor mounts. However if you look at the part circled if I flip the mount I will still have the same part of the motor pulley blocking the way.
Realistically the longer belt option is what would work. I currently have room to have a longer belt.
The only thing bugging me is that when I originally mounted the wheel pulley and attached everything there was no real gap and the whole belt was covering the wheel pulley. Same on both sides.
Whatever… Some 15mm pulleys and longer belts. Gonna put that torque down.
I typically remove the outside collar on motor pulleys, makes belt maintenance a breeze and avoids the issue where the collar gets in the way of the wheel causing rubs.
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Mine has some rubbing, just not from the collar. I’ll have to measure what length I need when I get home. Longer belts will solve this. 107s are just a big ass wheel. So smooth though.
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Some updates. Ordered 15mm pulley sets. Not a fan of tight belts or slipping belts so I just went wider. My other issue was the motor pulley contacting the wheels. Longer belts solved that issue and I have the full 15mm contacting the wheel pulley.
Next I’ve been waiting for the CNC FocBox case to arrive and it has.
I did some testing and the temps rise slower and overall stay cooler. I’m going to start getting the shapes ready to build the enclosures next. My batteries should be complete by Wednesday and I might have them Saturday so I can finish.
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Hey. About pulley tightness. I had a retainer ring/belt guard /flange but it was thin and weak. When I tightened the bolts, it bent. So I removed it, measured the ID and ordered a 2mm steel shim ring. It works for me. If you have the space, I would go with 3mm.
It’s like incorporating that into the existing pulley would have worked. With the longer belts I was able to adjust the belts and get plenty of coverage without contacting the wheel. Are you doing anything to retain the spacers in place other than tightening the pulley bolts around it?
It sits in a slot where the old one was. Perfect fit with a little tlc
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My dude where did you see 100 amp current draw on that ride of yours?
I saw 53~ from battery and ~56 into motors in the data. You do not add them up (if you did that, maybe I’m missing something?)
My Bluetooth module is only receiving data from one FocBox. So double for combined data.
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oh snap. Thats a lot of juice. you sure as hell need those parallel cells 
The board now has the juice. I got a dual charger as well. 20a each channel so charging this board still won’t take very long. Some more testing to finish then shorten a bunch of wires before I call this board ready to go and build the enclosure.
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Finally!!! The board is complete and 100% rideable. Got around to changing the vesc settings to work with liion instead of lipos I was using to test. I can tell you that .093 Kydex is a pain to mold corners, it’s just to thick.
I have the CNC case exposed from @Kug3lis to keep things cool.
Currently I have to remove the whole battery box to charge the batteries, but with 12s6p of 30q it’s not a big deal every 30 plus miles. I might consider cutting a hole in the box to reach the charge and balance wires. It weighs about 26lbs according to my bathroom scale.
Final steps will be to weather seal the case a little better. This thing is still a beast.
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