Producing new HTD5-25 Wheelpulleys 72Z
Got one special made for the Trampa Superstar Hub with cutouts with a wheight of 164gramm
And one universal for Trampa Superstar AND Hypa AND Flame Cryptic, wheights 197gramm
So i think the wheight difference is not that much!
Its maybe more interesting to have a wider range of hubs and can change them more easy.
Maybe will add one more boltingcircle if possible from MBS, dont have any hubs right now.
I dont see any way to make it less unsightly.
Maybe will try to add the MBS circle,
and rotate the boltingcircles to get the maximum possible distance between holes.
But at least it is what it is and functionality is proven design (-:
don’t get me wrong. I personally like it. I just know how general consumers think and they’ll choose something that looks “cool” more over “functionality” sadly
It’s like if Chaka used the usual Green PCB with his VESCs and others used the black pcb mask you can bet where most would go first (without the knowledge of reliability)
Sadly people look at 2 things.
What’s it look like?
What’s it cost?
@Nowind what price are you looking at? I’d likely buy 4 off you and be a guinea pig for you do these work with the 3 spoke 9" wheels from Trampa?
Yeah i know what you mean.
Look and price are main factors.
This 72T Pulleys with 30mm widh is for 25mm Belts, i will charge 80€ for one piece.
If for your aplication 15mm Belt is enough you can go with Trampa, they sell for 50€.
Sorry to tell mate they dont fit for the 3Spoke from Trampa.
Instead you can go with the Flame Cryptic hub which is 8 and 9 Inch compatible.
If you are interestet i have them for sale, also nice red and blue 9Inch Primo Striker Tires.
But you need to know that Enertion had made in the past Green, red and blue PCB. There changing color, to easily know witch version it is and witch factory it coming from, Chinese are just coping Enertion trade mark, and Chaka Pcb are purple, because it is the only color available at OSH PARK… So these color choice are not for the “cool” factor but are probably made for production tracking.
I was just curious, I’m going 8" for now, and if I don’t like the clearance I’ll change
@Nowind on a sidenote do you know where I could get 4 of those leopards you used in your build? I can only get 1 at the moment from altitude, other European sites have them for an extra 100USD compared to external sites!
@JohnnyMeduse - Whatever their reason the economics is there. When it comes to PCB purchasing people will choose (for Aesthetics purposes) any colour other than standard green first.
I completely understand. Aesthetics is a huge part of making a product sell, sometimes more so than functionality, for example Kanye’s $90 plain white tshirts. But going back to your gears, you have a 5 hole pattern and a 12 hole pattern, I dont see a reasonable way to merge those into an aesthetic design seeing as how their not factors of each other.
@nowind, @JuniorPotato93 how about putting a 2-piece sticker on the visible side of the pulley where the bolt holes are and you can either pull off the inner ring or the outer ring of this sticker to expose the holes that you need. The sticker could look like brake rotors or something like that. it’s a little cheesy but could help with Aesthetics.
@barajabali I’m with you on this point. These are 25mm wide. That’s just over anight inch of belt. You’re not gonnap be able to see much once they’re installed.
Leopards are a hard find for a good price!
You wanna go quaddrive or just building 2 boards?
Quaddrive Leopard with 12S Roxxy would be niiiiice
Yes thats it
Funny Idea, some fake brake rotors !
True ! You nearly see anything of it ones its mounted !
If you look at them unmounted i think of course the specific Superstar Hub with cutouts looks better!
For me its equal if i drill more holes or mill the cutouts but i think as some of you mentioned for customers its better to have wider range of possible usable Hubs.
I’m looking high and low for HTD5 72-80t 12-25mm pulleys at the moment, that I can use for my MBS wheels.
Your designs would work, I don’t really care how they look, and it’s easy enough to drill holes to mount them, so that’s not really a concern either. The only thing that turns me off here is the 80€ price tag. I guess I’d be happy with plastic on the wheel pulley too, so that’s kind of a factor, please correct me if I’m wrong but aluminium seems unnecessary for big wheel pulleys with such wide belts? This seems way over engineered?
Maybe I should be looking at the Trampa 66t 15mm pulleys as you mentioned @Nowind, they could work. Still seem way over priced though. I don’t really get it.