Pictute of my board on the local UTD campus
Beautiful campus, though the campus life is pretty dead

https://youtu.be/oczYnzF2Zm8?si=2m8amR5cWaZbvmCO

I saw this today.
I'm not sure if I'm going mad or what but...
damn.

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

I'm getting the hang of the art of "going up curbs"
Super excited, just need to get it down and become more consistent

Curbs are no longer a obstacle, only a mere pebble. Next is stairs, then after that. . .

Run

Time for a Onewheel update!

(The school doesn't lock the gate to the track, so I ususally go there at night to ride around. The ground on the track makes my tire act weird, but it is fun acting like your racing other people!)

The onewheel XR has been treating me well so far! It has turned from a cool toy to a tool in my life. My bike I have is good for getting to walmart and such, but bad for getting to classes due to it's footprint and how people congest both the sidewalks and the roads (No, seriously. People just walk in the middle of the street. It's dumb.) and the onewheel, with a massive speed reduction lets me weave past people if I have enough space.

The onewheel currently has stock everything except bumpers, tire (provided by @OneDanGT (Thanks man!)) and rear footpad. Next on the list is life savers for my rims because I ride this thing like a psycho at night or when there's lots of space and I'm going to start to learn tricks. The badger provided by @S-Leon (thanks man!) will be installed this week as well. I will try to design clips to attatch the LED strip to it.

Down the road, I will look into a battery upgrade, and finally either new rails or maybe even a VESC. After that, I'll water proof the board and I should be done with it for a long while!

Also, it's icing outside so that is going to severely limit my riding time. Ice isn't as hard as I thought, but braking with the bumper causes the onewheel to slide, and turning sometimes feels wack.

hehehehhe

Here's a harder one~

@lia The only thing I can really say is that whining doesn't really help anything, and it's better to look on the bright side.

I remember hearing something like it takes more energy to frown than to smile.

But thank you for making the forum in the first place! I wouldn't have a onewheel without you guys!

went on a trip in Colorado, brought Warstick with me

So my mom decided that she wanted a Onewheel so she could ride with me
however, she didn't want to break the bank and wanted something easy, so I helped her find a used Pint.
We got lucky, and found one that had 114 miles at 600 dollars. we got even luckier, as I found out the battery had been replaced right before I picked it off of the guy I bought it off of, so we basically had a steal.

Going to be teaching her how to ride it, but I'm not going to let her near my VESC (Warstick) as it has some problems and I need to fix a couple of things on it

We'll keep it stock, and probably by Christmas depending on how much she uses it, I might give her floatplates and a new tire

She's alive.

Board runs great, and I've already given it hell. The new campus I transfered too is very hilly and has some pretty steep inclines, so I've been pushing my board up the hills to try and stress it out.

I got the Ubox 100v installed, though I had to design my own mount for it and rip it out of the metal housing it came in. Found out the NRF data port and ADC 2 is dead, so that's fun. I have a new MK8 coming in with 120V FETS. Apparently running 150V FETs with a 75.6V battery makes the controller run HOT. Plus, switching to 120V means I can get insane amperage (About 198.6A for Soft max, over 230 abs. max!)

Motor feels great, and I did the hall sensor replacement on my own. Ended up doing all three, took pictures and then made a pev.dev post about how to do it. It's poorly written, but hopefully it's enough.

One of the riders at 1Wheelparts hooked me up with their quickies. I modified the pubpad to fit specifically the quickie, and I'm going to modify the foot hooks from VOW to fit the quickies specifically.

My new footpad runs a V4 Stoked Stock sensor with the first 5mm printed out of thick PETG, then rest out of TPU

Looking into adding PWM control for my COB LED lightbar, but that will come later if I learn PCB design.

@lemur I talked with Ennoid a bit over email. He mentioned how if you use an external buck (which i use know) it can cause some weirdness with current rippling, and VOW needed to install a diode to prevent that.

I have seen people getting LEDs working on the MK8

I got the new hall sensors in and will be installing them, and will be finishing my conversion later today. Going to go pick up new grip tape later today for my new footpad. Considered pulling off my old grip tape but decided that I should stop with the jank and I should start doing this properly.

One more thing-

GX-16 can be used in place of the switchcraft connector, it fits if the screw part of the connector is oval-shaped.

And I somehow managed to gaslight my Ubox 100v into making it think pitch was roll, vice-versa. I assume that I've either done something I shouldn't have, or I've messed up on IMU calibration.

Once I get this whole thing figured out, I'll post a more detailed write-up on my board as it currently stands.

Alright, I think ya'll need an update for the board.

As of writing this, I have switched to a metal controller box based off of the Pubbox design, which is amazing (outside of the thirty lid screws), went to the ennoid MK8, then back to the old ubox 100v. Added LEDs, 3d printed footpad with the first five milimeters being near-solid PETG with the rest being TPU and the stoked stock v4 sensor, and then the thundercat with WTF BTG rails.

The board is currently in a weird state of un-death. I made some idiotic choices and browned out my MK8 enough times to do what I'd assume permanent damage to it, along with finding that somehow an SMD capacitor came off of the MK8 (wild). Spent the better part of a couple days then switching back to the ubox, only to find that the NRF data and ADC2 being dead. Greeaat

For the past month, I've been fighting the board to keep it running. It started with adding LEDs running directly off of the MK8. Bad choice, as that would cause the board to brown-out mid ride, and I'd get some very nice road-rash. Took out the LEDs, and it seemed like the problem went away, for two weeks. About two weeks ago, I switched to the metal controller box. The first ride with the board, I did a curb nudge after about twenty minutes of riding, and the board stated to make crunching noises intermittently, with no real pattern. Re-calibrating the motor caused this issue to go away, but after about twenty or so minutes later, the crunch came back. Double-checked settings, uploaded new firmware, reflashed the MK8, nothing fixed it.

I spent a solid week chasing everything that could possibly be the issue.

I can't tell you how many times I considered either tossing the board, parting it out or just straight up taking my mom's pint and doing unholy crap to that.

I think I've dialed it down.

VESC Tool has a command in the terminal called hall_analyze, which lets you.. analyze the halls? Idk, it's VESC Tool. It's both the best and worst thing to exist. It's supposed to be used to troubleshoot your motor halls. You're supposed to get nice, clean square-wave output, with nothing weird or fishy about it.

Above is my hall sensor. It's not clean, and it looks a little suspect. Those strange, sharp dips could be either Vesc tool absolutely crapping its brains out, my halls in the motor screwing up, or a mix of both. I already tried this with both my MK8 and Ubox, got similar results on both. Could be the motor, could be VESC tool. I hate this damn hobby-

So, where are we at right now?

Well, I have four new hall sensors coming in, because one of the hall sensors DEFINITELY has damage to them, and it'd probably be a good idea. I've ordered a replacement MK8 with 120V MOSFETTS, and I'm currently trying not to go insane.

Also, this is all happening in between finishing up my last couple weeks at work, packing up for my transfer to Texas State, preparing for an event I'm going to called San Japan (Going with a group of friends against my willpleasesendhelp-) and having to juggle adulting stuff.

Hopefully I figure this out in time.

I'll keep ya'll updated.
I have no idea how ya'll do this crap

@lemur nice
How far do the diodes throw the light? (Basically, could I use with on a street without a handheld light or would I still need one?)

@lemur very interesting
I'll have to look into that option
I remember Wren for CD using a setup like that for his board

Here's a pic of the tire change. You can see how terrible the old motor was (the motor with the purple cable)
I'm not even going to sell the motor. It's got 6k miles, the cable is messed up and the bearings are the same ones from day one. I'm going to bring it to a lecture one day to take it apart for a lab then keep it as a trophy.

The current goal now is to waterproof the board, finish my headlight project and then to give the board a visual overhaul

Got the Superflux on, currently don't have a picture yet
Things to note about installing a superflux-

The thunder tire is literal landfill. Just throw out the tire, it's not worth it. I had my tire for about two days, went on a trail ride and the tire developed a flat. Swapped it out for my old Enduro and it was much better

The male connector has way too much meat on the connector. IT needs to be trimmed because making it fit within the rails is a hassle and a nightmare. They should cut it by about half an inch from the cable in terms of connector for better flexibility. I already know two trail riders local to me who have done this.

The superflux hs HAS SOME GAS
That thing flies like a bat out of hell
It's one hell of a motor, and it was worth every penny

what LEDs are those? on your front controller box?
Also, I'm stupid jealous of your clean wiring. It looks amazing!

@lia