Vesc Conversion Status (Rose/Mika)

LOAFFETTE

Will check the BMS tomorrow and make sure it still works. If it's busted, I'm going to be very very sad.
Would like to hear from the wise @TheBoardGarage and what he thinks, but I would assume the worst.

Lia

That's weird, shutting off mid ride. Were you able to turn it back on after at all?

Let us know if it's working or not when you can. I'm fine to do some diagnostics with you.

LOAFFETTE

@lia not mid-ride. It stopped charging mid-charging
the BMS is bypassed so it runs charge-only.

going to look at it later today

LOAFFETTE

found the problem

biell

@loaffette That looks misshapen, did it melt?

LOAFFETTE

@biell no clue. I'll find out later with its replacement. I will need to figure out a better fix later on

LOAFFETTE

I'm back!

The board is badgered, the grip tape is replaced just in time for the Texas Rain to start hitting!

I've been thinking about it, and I'm not jiving with the current connectors for the footpad and the hall sensor. I don't like that connector, it's stressful to deal with.

I looked around online, and found these options.

option 1
black n green

option 2
orangie

option 3
black n yeller

This is a weird one i found :)

What do you guys think for these? I want something that isn't finicky and easier to work with, source and replace.

biell

@loaffette I looked at all of these and decided that, for what I wanted, I felt they were all too long. But, if you do get one, please post your experience because I would love to be wrong.

LOAFFETTE

Hello!
I'm back with another update!

I've decided to start on a project to make a CAD replica of my board just so I can easily reference where everything is and better plan out mods and upgrades in the future.

To add to this, I've also run into a slight problem
My battery is cooked.

Ok, let me be less dramatic. The board still powers on, it still runs and it still goes over 20 mph, but it's range is abysmal. After 3-4 miles of riding, the board is left at around 50-60 percent capacity. It's top speed has also significantly dropped over the past month or so, going from a top speed of 23 down to 21 at 80 percent duty cycle.

I checked my odometer, and it is right now at around 2960 miles. (Adding in the odometer reading from the stock XR controller and onto the current VESCs odometer, which is 2500 miles off)

That's... a lot for one year of owning the board. I'm proud that I've used something that much, but it's left me stressed with how much longer it'll last. I'm hoping to make it to winter break and to Christmas so I can buy a new battery, BMS and charger but with the cost of all of that, I'm uncertain

For now, I won't ride the board too much or be excessive with it. I'm going to try and make sure I don't do anything too crazy and I'm going to keep an eye on how the battery is doing. I may try to do an OWIE mod for the BMS, just need to find the time to do it

In other news, the board hasn't had any major breakdowns of any kind! Nothing has melted, broken or snapped off! That is good for me, since it means I have less to worry about.

LOAFFETTE

Back again!

Started on a project to make a 1-to-1 CAD model of my board. I am working on the axle blocks and the rails currently. I think I'm pretty close to being on point with the thunder rails, but I need to get the insides right

Here's what I got so far:

The axle blocks are missing the chamfer on the other side, I'm struggling to replicate it

I will not be posting the thunder rail .f3d file since I don't want to get in trouble with Fungineers, and it would be a little mean

LOAFFETTE

Also, in addition, I made this:

I got sick of the mounting solution for the flight fins, so I made this
You can mount it under the bumper, or in between the footpad and bumper.
I will refine the edges to make it less sharp, but once I do and I confirm it works, I'll post the .f3d file
used sendcutsend

LOAFFETTE

Guess who's back!
so my parents bought me a 18S2P battery from the BoardGarage that runs off of 50s cells. They also got my an accompanying charger and thr XLITE-V3.

Spent all day setting it up, and it works!... after I accidentally plugged it into the stock harnesses reverse polarized connector. Had to replace the XT-60 on both the battery and the harness

gonna rip her around the neighborhood this morning, I'm excited

LOAFFETTE

this is the board about twelve hours ago

LOAFFETTE

The Ubox 80V died

Ordered a replacement ubox 100V from avaspark
I would have been cool with this if this was a week or two ago, but it being now with four days before college really stressed me out

Lia

@loaffette Oh no how’d it die? :(

LOAFFETTE

@lia absolutely no clue
Battery reads a good voltage though, and the Ubox light doesnt turn on, even when plugged into USB
my guess is that some of the thermal paste I used to thermally conduct heat from the ubox to the lid somehow got inside the controller and shorted it

I'm hoping to have it in by wensday so I can get it fixed before school starts

LOAFFETTE

@lia so I took some time and I cracked open the Ubox
Found out that a tiny surface mount capacitor/diode/resister thing popped

I also was running it on 45A field weakening so that might have done it out

LOAFFETTE

Ladies, Gentlemen and everyone in between...

We're back

I got my Ubox 100V in. Had to swap it into a 3D printed box. I used 3D printed cylinders as inserts so the screws had something to screw into. The lights don't work and I need to work on modifying a flowglider box to add a headlight pannel.

Motor has some weird crunch, and I'm still working it out

Also, the Ubox 100v is held in using command strips. It works, I'm not gonna complain about it lol
Board kicks like a mule, and apart from water-proofing it and printing out a new controller box using PETG-CF, and a new tire, this thing is basically as close to finished as it will be for a while

LOAFFETTE

So I wanted higher-desnity LED strips, but I didn't want to spend money.
I did have an LED strip through, so I commited a crime against electronics

very cursed

It's LED strips cut, then soldered with a bend in it.

close-up on the cursed

I feel like a genius but at the same time I feel scared that I haven't seen something that I should've seen

Sirgu

Umm, .. that's a lot of vibration these solder joints must withstand. Thought of some epoxy backing or smth? I have no idea how much room you got there to play around.