Thanks a lot man, hopefully i could finish this within this week…
@PartyPoison I’ve only used one 0.15mm nickel strip on each 1S4P pack, I’ve seem people using 4 strips like @whitepony, I’m pretty sure it’d have more current flow capacity and it’d be more reliable, but I’ve been riding riding my Trampa for 2 months daily with only one strip none have disoldered.
What I did had problems with were the “flat braided cables” I used to connect each 1S4P packs, they became brittle with time and eventualy got broken, so I replaced them with 14AWG silicone 2 cables and the have been working like a charm.
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just ordered mine from kaly nyc, I am wondering about flying with the board, any way to dissammble the batteries and bring them in carry on?
Or if I made my own battery setup?
There is no way to travel with that board, it’s one of the heaviest and it’s pretty difficult to build a modular battery, no place to plug the connectors the easily disassemble it.
Im looking to build my own flight safe board to bring to europe from usa,
Any suggestions for a newbie? battery speak is quite confusing, looking to buy a more or less “plug and play setup” or have someone make it for me.
I studied the tavel-safe posibility for a long time, at the end it was not worth it:
- A modular battery would always be less reliable due the number of conexions for battery packs and BMS wires
- If you decide to travel with the battery disassembled, you will face the decision of: the airline and TSA agent, so you could loose the battery between flights at the exist or return.
- You will have to break the law if you decide to travel with the battery disassembled unless you pass a certification with would cost several thousand dollars
- If you battery ever turns on fire during flight you put at risk hunders of lives and if you land without casualties you will be facing a huge sentence
Is it worth it?, not at all.
Are there any options?, yes:
- Ground ship your batteries prior your flight
- Have two batteries ready, one at the destination and one at home, push your esk8 between battery swaps
I dont mind breaking the law for batteries on an airplane whole thing is pretty stupid
so I should check the board, and then carry my batteries on with a 99wh fake sticker seems like the go to plan here…
Maybe on a practical level, stick your legit 99wh batteries in lipo charge bags and bring some prepaid ground shipping satchels so in a worst case scenario you can post them home or… ?
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no way to do that at an airport though?
I’m sorry. I won’t support braking the law in that way, I’m not sure if the members of this forum are going to back you up on this kind of decisions, this could only hurt the community and enforce the creation of new laws against electric vehicles.
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Enertion literally does this, not that I’m condoning it either
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Do they, Enertion, stick false labels on their batteries?
Yep, a couple raptor 2 owners had a 99wh sticker on their boards
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Hi @Eboosted,
Just so it’s clear, we actually had no knowledge of this occuring. We believe this occurred subsequent to leaving our warehousing facilities in China.
We do not condone this practice and have made efforts to ensure this does not happen in future.
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Adrián, that’s reassuring and nice to hear. I don’t think Enertion would risk it’s reputation by commiting this rookie mistake
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Not impossible to make a reliable - modular - legal pack with lipos, but I would say very hard with lion 18650’s as they are so small individually. For Lion you could make your own packs that are under 99wh with your own label, while physically in the rules I’m not sure they would be legally.
Hi, Can you tell me were you got that battery tray from? Thanks man.
Hello, the battery tray was designed and sold by @kaly, he has great products and fair prices
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thanks for the info man!
greetz from Norway