DIY Electric Skateboard Build: How To Choose a Battery 

Look up Kydex. It's heat shrink hard plastic in sheets. Looks PERFECT for the task but nobody Ever mentions it?... You can do it in your home oven. Looks dope.

@@scottmichael3745 thank you so much, I had actually found it a few days ago and was going to do that. Thank you so much though.

@@Vikram-yg9we Solid! Share pics of your build. I'd love to see them. :-)

Vikram Puri check out Psychotiller’s enclosures.

GOOD IDEA

I'm currently making a 12s10p battery, it's not a pretty big battery I doubt it would work good for a electric board but I'm making mine for a electric scooter

Yes 100% agree. We do mention the ability to wire a BMS to lipos in the video 👍🏻 Thanks for watching!

Hey man, how you charge with bms your lipos ? thanks

It depends on a a few factors but we’ve seen ranges of 15+ miles with the 10s3p battery.

@@MBoardsco Is there any battery that can get upwards of 20? thanks :)

We’d recommend a battery with a few more cells in parallel to supply enough output to the motors. We’d recommend 6s4p. Should be able to get away with a 6s3p.

Thank you so much 🙌🏻

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Li po and li on dosnt have the same voltage per cell. Lipo fully charge are 4.2 V....li on are 3. 8 V 10S Lipo = 42.V @ 50C.....verse li on 38v @ 20C....will yeah the lipo will go faster with twice the punch all day long.lol what you're asking about is the DISCHARGE RATE. ( C ratings) Lipo batteries has Higher discharge rate Options than Li on. The ESC has Voltage ratings on them...The Higher the amps...the better. Esc gets Hots (expensive).. It depends what MOTOR..you're using. The Motor will draw power. You dont want any of it to fry...Too much voltage to the motor will damage the motor....crappy C rating will damage the batteries and poor performance. You need to READ the SPEC on ALL of it.. Drill batterys are probably 20C-30 C at most...Most people dont run drills for 10-15 min continuously. You do not want li on cell reverse poling ( from HEAT) They make lipo at 50C -100 for CHEAP . now. It'll out perform li on ..all day long. One of these days..someone will get a bright idea of mounting aluminum on the bottom of the board as act as a HEAT SINK or Make an ALUMINUM BOARD :-P

Thanks for watching! I would refer to the Motor Video we just posted. You’ll want a motor that can handle 6s-12s batteries. 12V is too low when it comes to electric skateboards.

with a decent charger you can charge up to 6 of those batteries at a time also.

An electric skateboard consumes at least 10Wh/km. You have to convert your battery to Wh to calulate the milage. You need the mAh rating of the cells.

Would depend on which specific cells are used in the battery pack.

Yes 👍🏻

or just buy one of amazon and put it in a waterproof bag

Arnau Muntane You could probably connect two of them with one series connector and then connect those two with the 3rd with a second series connector.

you probably fried your ESC because there were too many amps. so probably upgrade your esc.

Horsey thanks that’s what I thought I did

@@toxicwaste1022 there can't be to many amps.. the esc will draw however many amps it needs automatically... And the amp draw changes every single second.. he most likely wired something up wrong or shorted something out..

@@fbiagent3399 an ESC that might be damaged by too large a current. Larger motors tend to draw more current, and larger propellers, or propellers with a greater pitch will also draw more current.

@@toxicwaste1022 I was thinking he said The batteries themselves killed the esc while plugging it in or something... it's always better to get A esc that can deliver much more current then the motors draw that way everything stays cold.. I personally run A 12s hobbywing esc and it's been amazing and definitely 1 of the smoothest escs I've ever owned on A electric skateboard...

This one would be the equivalent pack we sell in 2023: www.mboards.co/collections/batteries/products/10s2p-p42a-battery-pack-transparent-series

Wowgo at 14ah battery

@@tobiasleierseder8470where can I get one ? Do you have a recommendation? Thanks!

@@luckycstriker yes Just Google wowgo Board on the Side at Accessoires wowgo at 14 ah battery

@@luckycstriker and an enclosure ist With IT too

Hey Leo living life, I was just scrolling through the comments and read yours and you asked word for word literally what I'm dealing with right now and wondering? Have you found a solution for yours yet any recommendations?

* Leo Livin Life

@@joshtaylor9585 I bit the bullet and bought another board. Ended up getting the N2G electric long board for $20. More range, less weight , and comes with warranty. All for less than the price of a new battery

Yes! You’d end up with a 20s6p

Trying to grow the community one rider at a time! Welcome!

If you can only pull .43a continuous then yes that would be a problem. You’ll want to find cells that can handle at least 10a continuous in a 4p set up.

@@MBoardsco thanks for the reply, i already had the stuff so used it anyway, since its a 4s it gives me about 2A contineously. It works fine but for 2 seconds it cuts out and then picks up again. Happens every 40 seconds or so. Switched to lipo since then.

Yes that set up should work just fine 👍🏻

@@MBoardsco what you think about charging and discharging lipos without balance charger, just using bms and charging port and normal charger 33.6V (8S maximum voltage)?

@@hxjjdjjdj8020 its a good solution, if you go on the electric skateboard builders forum you will see that almost nobody uses balance chargers anymore. They all use a bms

Yes the discharge rating is very crucial for your acceleration and hill climbing. It also helps with voltage sag.

C Rating refers to your discharge rate. If you search for a C rating to discharge rate calculator online you’ll get a better understanding on what to look for when searching for a battery.

C rating is based on capacity, 5,000 mah x 20c = 100 amps, 12,000 mah x 14c = 168 amps. In theory, most fudge a lot on the printed c ratings.

Our 2p batteries can do 30a, 3p 45a, and 4p is 60a 👍🏻

@@MBoardsco Ok thank you for information!

That’ll depend on what top speed and range you are looking for! If you’ve got an idea on the specs I can help recommend the battery you’d need 👍🏻

We use Bestway BMSs

also where is the charge rate

Yes we can!

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