I cannot believe how this ESC have exploded in the e-skateboard community. It all started 2,5 years ago when I have had a few beers and wanted to do something fun for my bachelors thesis...
Benjamin was really kind and helped us making his BLDC-driver get suited for the needs we had during the project and it performed well most of the time. Quite a lot och breakdowns and late nights when Benjamin put a lot of sweat and tears into it. Even the professors where impressed since it was legal as a bicycle here in Sweden despite no limit on power.
For some strange reason someone wanted to make segways legal in Sweden as bicycles, so they made a law stating no power limit, no pedals, max velocity of 20 km/h to become a bicycle. Unfortunately that changed 1 januari so now the vehicle must be actively self-balancing to have unlimited power. So now we are stuck with 250 Watts aswell.
But I am working on it and the government have made some strange mistakes during the writing of the law and misread EU-rules, so I have filed official questions and have started to contact politicians that seems very interested. Manly because the possibilities of combining public transport and the then large environmental gain. I have a upcoming meeting the coming weeks where I will display my old prototype with Benjamins old BLDC-drivers (the first ever longboard with the VESC). If everything goes well we perhaps can make the old Swedish rules be valid in the hole EU in a few years time!
Keep up the good work with your boards and support Benjamin, you have no idea how many hours he have spend on the VESC starting like 4 years ago (well before my thesis atleast).