It seems really strange to admit this, but up until a few months ago I had never ridden a mono drive eboard. Mono drive means there is only one motor. I always built & rode Dual drive eboards, ones with two motors and in my case mounted both together side-by-side on the rear truck.
I always said, why have one motor when you can have two?
Well… after riding a mono drive I am really starting to question the reasons anyone would need a dual drive… When you build a mono drive with a larger powerful motor the torque output is really amazing.
The downside of mono drive is that you have less traction when starting, meaning much easier to spin the wheels, especially in the wet or when your weight is not heavy on the motor side. Also, when braking you have half the brake force! But these things are not deal breakers.
Check out my comparo video below, I was originally planning to put the Dual Raptor side-by-side with the boosted… But really that would not have been fair to the boosted. So instead I figure we might as well test the Raptor Mono and see how it shapes up… it did surprisingly well.
So maybe you can save some coin and just get a mono?
True, need a side by side comparison of Enertion Dual Raptor and Dual Boosted Plus. Also should do a 50 size like the small SK3 dual versus Dual Boosted Plus
I think if i had the motor on the heal side it would have been much better. The motor on that mono is toe side and i was also on a slope so the drive wheel didnt have much weight on it, it kept wanting to slip under full acceleration, so i had to manage that with the throttle a little bit.
3:1 is going to give you plenty of torque. The problem most of us have run into is the logic between unsensored outrunners and esc’s.The endless combinations that we come up with almost always run between 2.7:1 to 4:1 and sometimes it works out really well.
My best builds have been with Lipo. There is no question. Also, Hobbywing and Castle both make better ESC’s than the VESC.
WAY LESS ISSUES! Not sure where all of the opposition came from on the forums, but if you peruse you won’t find but maybe 1 or 2 issues total using those esc’s. And 1 of them were mine because I had a loose motor wire and fried my mamba monster.
I’m working with a couple of vesc’s right now @ 10s, geared 3:1 and I’m not stoked with what I’m getting.
Slow start up, smoothing that makes the board feel like a barbie vette, and voltage sag that cuts the motors off constantly. None of that ever happened with lipo at 6s and 8s. My other builds are scary fast.
Edit-I know this post seems out of place, and maybe it is…But @Randyc1 has been asking me questions by PM on ES so I got a notification and fired away. My volume and delete buttons are broken
When I built the mono raptor demo board i grabbed a drive train assembly that i had pre-built for a photo shoot. Didn’t really think about it until the board was built and i jumped on it. it’s not too hard to swap over but just never had the time to do it.
Having it toe side is definitely not ideal! but great for doing wheel spins though!
