Just search for his name on the forum
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What are you doing here mate? 
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Realized all the parts i took off my riptide just fit on my old Santa Cruz deck. Figured why not. Need caliber trucks, 50xx mounts, thinking 90mm or smaller wheels.
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I know kevin dark. I don’t know how that battery came to be that way though.
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Then you’ll have a noob board for lendsies or for the wife to learn on. Good idea I’d go for as small a wheel as you can. Keep it easier to ride and improve the torque.
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Nice size comparison! how do the 30T perform?
Battery was used for 3-4 cycles then it stopped working. This was what we found when we removed the heat shrink. So it’s unusable… Looks like way to thin strips that couldn’t handle the current…
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It’s one of my old prebuilts. The connectors have already been replaced by solder now
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Thanks. I thought they’d looked narrow and thin.
10mm x 0.15mm is what I used.
How does the rest look?
@darkkevind Do you want to chime in here and perhaps tell us the specs of the strip you use?
Even if the nickel isn’t what it should be I wonder what kind of force caused this to happen?
Was the battery used under a flexible deck? And if so was it built for a flexible deck configuration?
Don’t know. I don’t dare to take it apart, don’t want a l fire🔥.
I need to find a professional in Sweden to fix it and pay even more 
Well taking the tape off should be fine if you know what you’re doing.
Those are 20700b cells?
In a facebook group there were pictures of another KD battery. Don’t want to post them up here as they weren’t my pictures, but from what could be seen in those pics, that battery was a fire waiting to happen. Batteries with burn marks (shorted?), crappy insulation, loose welds, welds that had burnt holes in the nickel strip, sharp corners everywhere, nickel sticking out over the insulation on the positive cap, damaged shrink wrap (on cells) and so on.
Looked really ugly. I just hope Kevin has stepped up his game since, or else we probably have quite a few ticking battery bombs out there.
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Oh dear. I might have a look there.
How dear he make shit batteries then and sell them.
Well I don’t wanna start another shit thread so I’m not going to mention it anymore.
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Those are beasts they outperform the 30Q by 233%
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do they top out at 35A discharge or can they output more?
I was assuming/hoping there were some e-plans for it 
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