Making a professional grade electric longboard from scratch.
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First of all, I chose the vanguard deck for its shape and height... Then I realised it's the exact board that boosted seems to be using, so it must be a pretty good choice?
As for the transmition, it will be belt driven as this type of transmition does not require lubrification and is generally cheap and easy to replace. I will be keeping the ratio to about 3:1 to avoid most of the belt slippage and undesired wearring.
Here is my GoFundMe page, feel free to help out with the project!
In the last months the project has been left to the side a little bit, but last week I started working some more on my spreadsheet to refine everything and separate the equation a bit better.
I also did a bit more research to figure out what transmition I will be using, gear type, ratio, belt and I came to conclude in a 3:1 gear ratio, belt driven obviously (more on that in the description).
See you in the next update,
Félix
I am currently in the process of choosing my battery pack and I can't decide if making my own out of a single cell is a good idea.
The main advantage being that I can then really choose the shape I want for it. Thus having a thinner profile.
However having never assembled a battery pack before I am a little bit doubtful.
Thanks Pedro, the links in your blog posts have been quite usefull, especially the industrial wiki!
Félix Labelle
ARITH-MATIC
Stef64kb
Danny Andreev
forrest.thelucas
Hi Felix! Here's a similar project I've done, you can check it out for ideas or inspiration. Good luck! http://electricsfromscratch.com