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A guide to building a fast electric skateboard at home

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Re: A guide to building a fast electric skateboard at home

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Post by mlevental »

the donor board section is just the battery section duplicated. you're also missing a really important piece (that I actually don't know anything about re li-po/li-on but do know something about re deep cycle lead-acid) which is the charge controller (i.e. the thing that prevents your battery from blowing up and maiming you).

Re: A guide to building a fast electric skateboard at home

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Post by keyle »

Very cool but the original board was never designed to go at such speeds. I suspect you'll ruin the wheels fairly quickly, not to mention you might lose control at high speed fairly fast. I'm not a skateboarder myself, but I've moded some bikes and adding speed is the easiest part, making it useful speed is way harder.

Also, I hope the engine can go in reverse or this guy has no breaking power; and as he gets comfortable riding it, sooner or later, a surprise will happen and he will have no choice but jump ship.

Re: A guide to building a fast electric skateboard at home

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Post by antisthenes »

If I'm going 50km/h on something, I would at least like it to have proper disk brakes like mid-range and higher bicycles do.

Going at those speeds may be fun and all, but you're 1 careless driver away from the hospital, unless you ride on abandoned roads.

Re: A guide to building a fast electric skateboard at home

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Post by jakecopp »

antisthenes wrote: post #6

If I'm going 50km/h on something, I would at least like it to have proper disk brakes like mid-range and higher bicycles do. Going at those speeds may be fun and all, but you're 1 careless driver away from the hospital, unless you ride on abandoned roads.

I agree, but disk brakes won't help you stay on the board!

Re: A guide to building a fast electric skateboard at home

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Post by wolfgke »

autotune wrote: post #3

As neat as this looks I wouldn't build a DIY electric skateboard for the same reason I wouldn't want to build software for an airplane.

> As neat as this looks I wouldn't build a DIY electric skateboard for the same reason I wouldn't want to build software for an airplane.

You mean for legal reasons? ;-)

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