I thought I would first explain how I decided to make an eboard from the very beginning. I bought my first traditional longboard when I was eleven years old. My friends got them as well and we loved them to death. Even though they were kind of cheap with crap bearings, really stiff board and low quality trucks, we rode them as much as we could, sometimes for 8-9 hours a day.
As I kept being interested in longboards, I got myself a higher quality one from Fibretec a year later, along with paris trucks, nice abec bearings and orangatang wheels. This led to my friends of course upgrading their boards after having been blown away by the difference between theirs and mine.
Now that we all had our wonderful boards, the interest in the sport kept rising to the point that it was pretty much the only thing we did during summer breaks. However this all changed some years later, the summer of 2015, the same year that I turned 16. Towards the end of the summer I suddenly started being really tired all the time, but not a "normal tiredness, rather is if I had a fever. After over a year of visiting doctors, doing different tests and taking blood samples, it turned out that I have a chronic illness called CFS. This prevented me from riding my board any more as it was exhausting for me.
Until a few months ago, I saw one of these electric scooters that you rent via an app in your phone. I tried one of those out and it went pretty well, I did not feel exhausted at all. This eventually led to me buying my own scooter, a Xiaomi M365. After riding that for a few weeks now, I have finally decided to build my own eboard. To be able to get back the awesome feeling of surfing down the streets.
I am going for belt drive since I want to be able to change out the wheels from time to time. It also looks cooler . I am only going single drive since I do not need that much power in the beginning, but I will eventually upgrade to an additional motor and vesc in the future.
This is my parts list which from my understanding should be compatible:
First off I am getting this kit, from electricboardsolutions which includes wheel and motorpulleys, motor mount, truck, belt and such.I chose the kegel wheel pulleys.
Since I chose the kegel pulleys I am going to be using these orangatang kegel 80a wheels, also from electronicboardsolutions
I am using a VESC from electricboardsolutions as from my understanding it seems to be a pretty reliable ESC with a good software.
I am using an esk8 remote
The battery that will be powering the board, is an 10s2p, also from electricboardsolutions. I am pretty certain it will be enough since I only have a single motor. Also from my understanding this will not need a switch, as it has a high discharge BMS. I based it on what I read in this thread
Lastly the deck I will be using is from Slipstream. Not really a known brand but in my local area some longboard stores stock them.
I have already ordered the board and will fetch the rest of the parts next week. Please share your thoughts and opinions as I am not experienced in the whole DIY esk8 category.
Thanks for reading, will provide updates further down the line!