Recent content by altapowderdog

It turns out that velcro is not a good way to attach an electronics housing to the bottom of a board (probably should have seen that coming) I re-made the electronics cover to be attached with double stick tape (still don't want to drill into the board). While I was at it, I changed the setup...

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Hey someone recognized it! I grew up in utah and Alta was where I first learned to ski when I was little, so both. And cost: Total hobby king order (motor, batteries, remote, bad remote speed controller, connectors): $164 New not-crappy speed controller from ebay: $90 Then the hardware...

Correct- as of now I have no way to tighten the belt, I just found where the belt was nice and tight and drilled the holes there. I'm a week in with no issues so far. If I need to replace the holes in the bracket with slots so that I can tighten it, the whole bracket just comes off and I can...

Okay I think I figured the photos thing out...

Hi, I just got my longboard project up and running successfully, so I figured I'd post it here because this is the forum that inspired me to build my own. I went with the cheapest stuff possible, which proved pretty hit-or-miss. I figured that I'd get this thing working first, before...

Hey I just thought I'd comment on my experience in case someone else is thinking of going with the super cheap 90A speed controller. I found it to be glitchy with my Turnigy Aerodrive SK3 5055. It would occasionally decide to drive in reverse without any input- basically trying to kill you...

okay, I recently re-programed every setting. I set it to the standard settings, and also played around with higher then default "angle of entrance" settings. The behavior still happens when every setting is on default.

Hi there, I've been building an electric longboard, and have ran into a weird issue where my motor will occasionally run backwards, throwing me off. I found this website, and it seems like some of you have a lot more experience with brushless systems then I do. Some of you are even using the...