Just found an article on the wackyboards blog of a list of some home made electric stakeboards. Check it out if you want to see what some other people are doing.
http://wackyboards.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/rc-brushless-motor-longboard.html
Wackyboard – list of home made Electric skateboards
Wooh! My blog is on there!
Look this kid project http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7da3C9WjGu4&list=FLL90a_0vE16QhD0io6IFDrQ&index=1
I was wondering about a setup similar for my board with direct gear no timing belt I guess this way we can build a much nice discrete mount without all the belt gap ! Ill look for gears and hope I found some build in nylon for low noise !
Interesting, looks like some fun. It looks like he’s got a rather high kv motor running to a cog then to a belt. It probably would have worked out better with a lower speed motor to start with so he wouldn’t have to step it down so much.
Good question as to why boards have belts at all. The only think I can think of is to allow for slipping in the belt. i.e. if the motor can’t pull the weight the belt slips as opposed to shredding gears/motor.
Hi, over and out,
just updated that post with more pics.
good luck on ur build.