Turns out the guys in the UK making longboard kits have got a website up for ordering parts: Their new website: http://www.aliendrivesystems.com/alien-power-systems-motorsesc.html The original Endless sphere blog thread: http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=47176&start=175
You guys might know everything mighn’t have turned out perfectly with the prototype but I thought I would add some more pictures of putting the prototpye together. The photos came in newest to oldest so start at the bottom
So it was sunny this weekend and I got out on my board. Good and bad. The stats are below. Turns out I broke it. After 3.8 km and plenty of battery juice left it just stopped. Something electrical is broken and I don’t know exactly what, just yet. The motor is beeping at me …
So took my board for a test ride yesterday afternoon. A couple of things of note: Top speed: got it to 12mph (20kph) at about 1/4 throttle I wasn’t game enough to take it past that. (I need a better GPS speed app than the one I downloaded). Basically the motor is a beast. This …
Thought i would put this one on its own page. Jacob’s just posted a video of his eboard. http://youtu.be/7Fwag5UReYI He bought one of the kits that beetbock is selling on the endless-sphere.com forums. Previous post about it: http://howtomakeanelectricskateboard.com//2013/03/26/endless-sphere-project/ Endless sphere thread: http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=47176&start=75 They’ve very neat and I would recommend for those not wanting any hassle making metal bracket, …
So I’m up and running. It turns out doing this the second time making a new motor mount etc was much faster than the first time round. It took me some tweaking of the belt tension today and making sure all 4 screws were in the motor mount but I’m up and moving fast. Actually …
Just finished off mounting the new belt/cog. Pictures and test drive to come.
So one of the readers of this blog Vitalie wanted to share the details of his build. Its a fantastic looking board and very neat execution. The mounting is something that I haven’t seen before but works well and doesn’t require any welding which is good. Vitalie has provided the following details for those interested. …
Okay so the so I had some issues with the prototype (small cog slipping on the motor, stripping the belt and lowish top speed). Most of the problems stem from poor cog and belt selection, so its time to rethink these. As always I’ve been looking over other peoples sucessful projects. Youtube clip of longboard Endless …
UPDATE So I’ve just been for another ride after tightening the belt and realised that the belt isn’t slipping. What is slipping is the small cog on the shaft of the motor. The small cog has two small allen key screw in the side which screw and put presure on the motor shaft. The idea …
