Future Motion announcement in twelve hours

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We've got four minutes until gametime on the stream
I'm skipping lunch and thankfully my Thermodynamics class has been dropped today so I get to watch this.

I will summarize what we get in the livestream

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@loaffette holy crap it looks fast, no obvious pushback on it

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@loaffette so it's called the Onewheel GT-S
(S Series)

Apparently it was originally made for race for the rail

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@loaffette wHAT?@?@?@?@?

[Lia]

Launch vid

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@lia damn, 113 volts. That's the highest voltage I've seen in any onewheel

I could lick that!

[Lia]

@loaffette It's pretty high. Molicel P45 were mentioned in the live video so I suspect it's all series cells and nothing parallel.

$3200 seems a bit steep though. Not sure how many will bite for that.

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@lia onewheel.com is back up

GT is now 2,300
Pint X is now 1,500
Pint has not been changed

[Franko]

i mean, i get where they are going -- they want to push the sport, and that's fine -- but meh, this clearly isn't for me. nothing about excites me. i'm not a trail rider, and i'm not a speed junkie. i'm glad they are improving them in general, though, and i hope this means they will release a comparable street machine next.

[Lia]

@franko Same. I'm all about range so this is the opposite of what I personally want but I can see the racers loving this.

Already discussing this with Fungineers about plans. It's gonna give us some new goals for sure in terms of DIY builds.

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@loaffette just realized the voltage for the cells is going off of 4.2, not 3.7v
They may be fudging the numbers on this.
113/3.7=30
113/4.2=27

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@loaffette credit for discovery is Mica on the vescify discord
https://discord.com/channels/846794200308908065/846794258093703228/1167530209252233247

[Lia]

@loaffette Numbers check out.

GT is 18s
GT-s is likely 27s

They claim a 50% boost in voltage. If 27s is 150%, 27/1.5=18

[Lia]

So I did a quick and dirty mockup in a GT battery box and sure enough 21700 27s1p fits super comfortably BUT there is no shot there are any in parallel which checks out with the lighter weight.

[TheAdman]

Yay, now my XR is doubly out of date.

[NotSure]

@lia yeah if they dropped the price of gt and made the gts $2500, id consider it. wondering what the pushback is like though. VESC's already go that fast with more features and less voltage. anyone here buy one yet?

[Lia]

@notsure Everyone I've spoken too can't justify it. I'm sure there are some though.

Personally I think it's a bit rough on the riders wanting to get into racing. It feels a little deliberately pay to play.

[NotSure]

@lia ok here's a dumb question: if the cells in that battery are all in series, what happens if one fails? is it like string lights?

[Lia]

@notsure Depends on the failure but in most cases a bad cell when you have none in parallel is dead.

I could go on about my displeasure with this launch but I prefer to be optimistic so I'll reserve my grumbling.

[biell]

@lia FM is a bunch of chickens. Why not go all the way, 36s1p!!

;)