I just ordered my deck decided to do something different and went with the winter camo…
I’m surprised about the finished project! Keep us updated. Good choice BTW. The board looks nice, especially in winter.
Frank
Yeah maybe I should have gone with “the joker” lol I hadn’t seen any other builds in winter Frank, I’m sure they must be out there? and that the camo will look cool dusty & dirty
I also ordered a cast Mad Munkey from Joel @FLATLINEcustoms. Joel was super cool to deal with and is making up a remote for me in a custom colour to go with my motors/ esc’s…
I just ordered my YGE Caps 9, capacitor banks from freakware.de. Jenso (@Nowind) the ESC killing beast has been adding these to his Roxxy ESC’s for a while now since he set a few on fire. The capacitor banks tame the input spikes to the speed controllers caused from the inductance of the battery wires and mashing the throttle
@MoeStooge, I’m going for wheelie-fun Wish I was stateside and I could hang with you guys at “Performance Day”. I can’t wait to see video, I bet forum traffic spikes on Sunday! Anyway, thanks bro
Loving your work!
I just hooked up a motor mount-drive train from @benjammin… well most of it, will need a few modifications, but the bones are there, hopefully I can talk the dark master of eMTB to help with a few more bits
Hey, you know this drive only fits matrix2 trucks right?
All good bro it’s a parts donor, I’m going to do something funky
Not sure how many peeps noticed but my motor wires are on the other end of my motor from the motor shaft?
Well like a hub motor the shaft and shell all rotate together, after some research in other forums (I’ve been cheating on you eSk8 builders) I have watched some cool video on how to change my motor shaft and even how to make my own motor shafts from drill blanks and I have ordered some new HK-5035 shafts for my scorpion SII-5535 motors. Essentially it is not that hard depending on your motors construction. With a Scorpion it is easy, you just need some basic tools, loctite, maybe a dremel tool and definitely a arbor or drill press and your good to go.
Time will tell, my new shafts are in the mail
But it looks like i’ll be using a gear drive now
Letting @benjammin down on his sale was a bummer, but over a beer he took the news well
My @trampa just turned up in the post. Not sure exactly what I was expecting? The deck feels great in hand, and better than I thought underfoot having read that some do not get along with the convex form. I did have a pair of adi ease II on though and they have good outer edge support. All in all I’m stoked with the deck, Thanks Frank & Ted
I am a bit under-whelmed with the brakes though, not unexpected, so some work to do there to get the right feel.
I found a discontinued factory [reverse mounted scorpion motor] (http://www.scorpionsystem.com/catalog/discontinued/motor/s50_1/S_5030_220/) this morning Before I was sure I could work it out, know I know I have this in the bag… even has the circlip mount like I plan to use instead of the internal bearing shoulder/ridge.
I flipped on my batteries, I was going to run 12s graphene, but I’ve gone for regular heavy duty Lipos at 14s for a bit more speed and the fact they come wired with 8awg from the factory. From the boards, 3D Heli guys are using a pair of these and draining them in under 4 minutes with no drama so I’m sure they will be more than enough for me.
just ponied up for a new icharger… I’m not going to run a BMS so… getting a cool charger instead
Ok, now it’s getting real crazy
SHIT YEAH! Can’t wait to see this come together!
After a bit of hunting around I settled on this HV Step down adjustable switching regulator to power my receiver and ESC fans. Not a lot of options at 14s… but this little switching regulator (converts voltage in little chunks rather than just wasting energy as heat) looks sweet
After reading around a bit on the heli forums and what they do to maximize Tx-Rx reliability I decided to grab a bit more Scorpion swag, a: Scorpion Back Up Guard.
basically it plugs in to a the low volt Rx circuit I’ll run at 6/6.5v, and if it ever runs down to near 5v it will kick in and power my Rx & esc fans. So it helps with BEC brown outs as the heli boys call them, inductance induced BEC supply issues and BEC failure…
I’ve been hunting around now for a while for a solid high amp connector solution, especialy for my 2 x 7s battery leads (14s) that I expect to get hit with around ~280 amps of current. 6mm xt150’s are not quite up to spec, or even the 7mm AS150’s are only rated at 200a I see @Nowind just got rid of lots of his xt90’s on his 80mm Leo board…
So I’m going to give these a shot instead
Solid 6mm connectors from LMT rated at 400a… & when LMT say it’s good for 400a I trust them they are