Posts made by LOAFFETTE

hey, you wanna hear an idea so stupid it rolls around to being absolutely genius!?
No?

too bad

I went to Houston this past week. It was fun, and I got to ride a really cool bike path! However, I forgot my charger in Dallas.
While I was sitting in the park, waiting for my dad to pick me up from my ride, I was looking down at my phone powerbank. It has PD that could easily power a steam deck or a macbook. I then looked at my board.

Then the part of my brain that everyone wishes would stop working turned on, and I had a really cursed idea.
What if you could charge a onewheel off of USB-C PD? The idea is simple: You have a Type-C port that automatically demands 20V/the highest PD that the charger can support. You then had a DC converter that steps 20V (or whatever voltage you can pull out of your macbook/ipad charger) and step it up to say.... 75V?
Have an XT-30 plug that you can plugin GX-16, XLR, XT-30/60/90, Pint/GT, or whatever cursed plug your insanity-tinted glasses head likes to use!

Would this be useful? Probably! It's going to be ~$60 to build in parts, not counting filament cost.
I'm waiting on this for now as I have a couple projects I need to finish up.

@lia
Insert Texas not getting cold until early-December
Insert crazy texas weather

I hope to attend a really big onewheel event this year, and meet some people in the VESC community.
I'm also hoping to waterproof my board and to develop a couple cool things I've been cooking up, one of them involving a helmet addon

also, I will try not to crash again

I'm ALIVE!

So, found out the reason why my LEDs were freaking out was due to EMF from the phase wires. Will spend some time this weekend to cut up a spare USB cable to shield the headlight cable.

Also, I am considering seeing if I can look at waterproofing my board completely
I have a feeling the rain this year is going to be insane
I also built a trunk thing for the onewheel

I was gifted actual power tools and so I used them!

teardown vid by FixMyPEV

Yeah, saw the announcment for the announcment last night.
On the VESCIFY discord server, everyone hopped in VC and I polled what people thought it was going to be. 4 people (including me) thought it was going to be a new XR

Aside from that, it looks like it's just a GT, slimmed down, put in blue rails, with a 6-inch hub, wooden footpads and some new firmware.

It's about $1900, which is actually a steal compared to a stock GT. The board itself probably has it's own rails which aren't compatible with the GT or XR (that's what a majority of the Vescify server thinks, at least. Personally, I would think that they would at least reuse the GT rails but modify them to still be compatible, but still the same. It wouldn't be economical to design and make a whole new set of rails.)

I'm waiting to see what the TFL does with a teardown of the XR Classic (I'm dubbing it the XRC personally)

New update:
The motor has started to vibrate whenever I apply breaking. It's like haptic buzz vibrating. Updated firmware, recalibrated the motor and went through motor crunch troubleshooting.

What fixed it was unplugging the Hall sensor plug in my veac and plugging it back it.

A little confused now

@loaffette
they cheaped out on the bumpers, going with stock and not the free-ride

The float life just got theirs

@lia Nope, not yet on the reflow station
Everyone I knew who had one left for greener pastures (They're all smarter and crazier than me and got scholarships to better colleges)

The LEDs flickering might have been a good thing too. It made me realize that those strips weren't bright enough for what I wanted (even though they were 24V)
Though I may end up putting my old stock XR headlights back in for now

@lia I bet someone might try and put the GT-S motor in the board. It'd probably be a waste of money, but it would probably at least be fitting.

Also the all-black color gives me an idea

The board compared against my mom's pint. I'm hoping to soon replace the tire after 500 miles and to get her an enduro. She can ride the board and balance on it, but she goes very slow and her feet and ankles are shaking on the round tire of the pint.

That's a later project though

Update

No bueno on that old controller, it's deader than a doorknob. I held on to it for measurment references and to recycle the XT-60 on it since I was out of those. Spent the rest of my time experimenting with COB LED strips

They seemed bright and worked well. The idea is to utilize the 12V (1A assumed) power output from the Ubox 100v. Split it so two of the wires carrying the voltage goes through a boost converter to bump 12 to 24v for the LEDs. At the same time, run the other two wires to a buck converter to drop it to 5V for the Wemos D1 which will use WLED. That will let me control the LED's colors and brightness.

It worked on the bench, so I buttoned the rest of the board up enough so it could be taken back to college

Re-terminated the wires on the motor just so it was cleaner, and covered it in heat shrink. I might end up peeling that heat shrink off and re-doing the wiring again because it was a pain to fit through the cable gland, and I think I could make it look cleaner.

So, remember how I've been having trouble with the screw threads on my rails?
I took the Easy Access box STEP and pulled it into CAD. I added these little legs that extend out enough to cover the back screw holes for the bumpers. There's a hole for 10-32 heated inserts to go in, where it should give me new threads. I had to sand it down a bit, but I got it to fit and it works well!

After I moved in and my new controller arrived, I got right to work placing in the new controller. I had some fun with my iPad automatically updating to Vesc Tool 6.05 which made connecting to the board impossible via iPad (stupid thing) so I did it on my Galaxy Fold, which hadn't updated the app.

After too much work, I got it all put together! However, the LED bar on thr front started to flicker like crazy. I checked the wiring, checked for any shorts via continuity across the wires and even swapped out the Wemos D1. I even ran the LEDs with only the power and ground connected, and it still flickered and changed colors.
I was going to replace the LED strip but I can't find the rest of mine, and I don't feel like ordering new ones

The board works now, and is working great! I'm hoping to waterproof it soon before it rains. I printed the controller box out of PETG with a 5 layer thick wall, so hopefully that should keep it sealed.

@legolas You should be able to find links or at least a place to find people who would have them on the vescify discord server
https://discord.gg/QFgpu8ND

@lia that...
It looked like a great board until you pulled the controller and battery lid off

what have they done to the poor boy?!
That battery looks jank as hell, and that controller...
oh my god

This looks worse than my first build

Good find, though! I hope
What do you plan to do with it?

Edit: Wait, this was two years old?!

So Floatwheel made a post on their YouTube, talking about their next boards and such
Here it is

@lia Same
If my mom hadn't bought her pint back in May, I would have told her to buy a Pint X. Though it seems like the Pint-S is just a souped up Pint X with better firmware, black rails, batter tire, handle and footpads

I don't think they should be calling this a new board, but we will have to wait and see when the TFL gets their hands on it and does a teardown. I was hoping that with the S name it would be like the GT-S with a new battery and new guts and stuff. It would be a nice to have a proper fast Pint that can actually haul ass

20MPH is fast, though I feel like at 1,400 it should at least have a few pint-s exclusives (A motor remixed/redesigned for higher speed (or higher KV rating, maybe RGB headlights, or just something different)

Today, future motion just announced the Pint-S. It's got the preformance tire, maghandle pro, flared footpads and a +2mph range boost.

They are also bringing over custom shaping over to the pint platform (I think)

all of them seem fine, but BF on mine is a tad bit flakey

@lia I'll check
if that's the problem and the board powers on afterwards, then I'm golden

I did notice earlier that when i have the power button plugged in, there is that little pop, but still no power

@lia they just told me it's dead and needs to be sent back
I'll probably poke around inside and see if anything looks broken or busted