Hi,
I’m getting ready to purchase a 57KV eLofty style DD motor for an AT street board I’m working on. However, I’m a little confused about how I can get pneumatic AT wheels to work with the eLofty setup. I have a 3D printer but don’t want to ride on 3D printed hubs (happy to print and adapter though).
Are eLofty DDs still worth it?Has anyone had luck with a build like this?
Most importantly, how can I get pneumatic tires on it? Thanks!
If you have access to a 3D printer, you can 3d print the rims and then buy a set of 6X2 wheels for maybe 60 for a set of 4? 2 of my boards use elofty DD with 3d printed rims and pneumies
Yup, I’ve actually had about 3-4 hubs fail but only once during riding though and honestly I barely noticed… It’s really weird but the sidewalls keep blowing out. The one time it did blow out while riding, it was just a small pop and bump. The 6 inch just flattened out but didn’t come off or anything
I will say that it’s probably my fault that they broke because I didn’t print them properly. The original creator has about 1000KM on them with no failure. He uses abs and petg.
I’m not an expert but I believe the reason is that with bigger wheels the motor needs to use more torque and that puts more stress on the hanger. The motor is basically twisting the hanger and the hanger needs to withstand that force. The bigger wheel the bigger the twisting force. (I think. My engineering degree is in software engineering = not highly relevant to the discussion. )