DIY Electric Skateboard Repair | LaCroix Prototipo 

Yeah really awesome, FOUR tires that will need replacing. Usually belts as well.

@@nyccollin Most commonly used tires last about 500-800 miles, depending on terrain and riding style. Since they're tubed tires, wearing them down to the threads doesn't cause air loss. Usually the rear tires wear faster, and I've more often rotated the front tires to the back, and just replaced 2. Also, since the wheels tend to just come off with a single nut, and the hubs come apart easily, a tire change for all 4 wheels takes about 20 minutes. And a tire can cost about $10-15 a piece. Belts last about 1,000-2,000 miles if you have them tensioned properly. If you're trying to make the argument that an eskate needs more maintenance than a Onewheel, I don't think that's solid ground to stand on. Even less so if you take the cost of ownership over the life of the board. I ride Onewheels more, but I don't think it's useful to ignore the costs of owning a Onewheel.

@@nyccollin Four wheels is faster, stable and way more fun than onewheel tho. Onewheel isn't a good purchase lol.

@@SRNAR8 right? Onewheel starts at 1200 or whatever and everything they use is proprietary so if you try and fix a battery you brick it. You can buy an Eskate for 500 all day long and do whatever you want with it.

Thank you! I try.

Thank you sir.

Thanks Jimmy!

Thank you! I've used silicone on the cells before, but not only did it take forever to cure, but I've found that the bond to the cell wraps (at least on Samsungs and Molicels) gets weak and lets go after a week or so. This black hot melt is pretty ridiculous, and seems to hold stronger for longer, which I'm hoping, takes some stress off the welds in terms on structure. Anyway, I'd love to ride! I'm actually abandoning my Hummie deck build, and doing an old school Prototipo build for myself.

If I can source some more 50E cells, then sure. I'll do another one.

@@TheBoardGarage that would be fantastic, everything electronic is so much harder to come by. Crossing my fingers that we will get back to some normalcy soon.

If it’s a FOCBOX Unity, you should be able to use VESC tool on either iOS or Android.

My battery is a DieHard Silver, only has a CCA of 575, but the KWeld calibration showed it did 1400 amps or so. It does 0.2mm nickel very easily, about 50-57 joules, depending on the sharpness of the electrode tips. 0.3mm nickel takes like 90 joules or so. I haven't done that in a while, and actually mostly use 0.15mm nickel now, since they're usually just for parallel connections.

@@TheBoardGarage Thanks! Good to know that a single battery advertised around 600A will be sufficient. I read on reddit that someone recommended 2x in parallel but apparently that suggestion was just based off the CCA without any real world data to back it up!

CCA is rated at freezing temperatures. At room temperature, the output is much higher.

Those were done on the Skydio 2.

Just you wait.

The factory Onewheel XR battery is built pretty decently. You can tell when you look inside that the there's a balance of safety and efficiency. Meaning, they use just enough to cover the current draw, and also do a good job of making the pack about as safe as a production e-bike battery would be. More range is had by either shoving in more cells and sacrificing safety (a lot of mods do this), or losing weight (I'm always trying to do this), or riding way slower.

I haven't opened one up yet, but I do love the look of the Nazarre. I'm sure the inside is similar to the other current gen LaCroix boards. If it does have a 20700 based battery, then it can likely fit 21700 cells. It may not be worth it to replace it though, unless the original pack is really worn out and dragging you down. If it is, it should be easy to replace it with a Molicel P42a build.

I just bought that board a week ago and I love it. Do you know any current app that will connect to the focbox? I mainly just want to view my battery charge.

Oddly enough... I'm making a video on this exact topic. The long and short of it, is that I don't accept the premise. It's based on assumptions that aren't a given, and that I have disagreements with as well.

Wooo! Another option is "biff bam wham, green eggs and ham". I'll give that a try next time.

Sure, feel free to reach out to me on IG.

@@TheBoardGarage Awesome, will do!

I do, I run an eskate repair shop, and have done 9 Prototipo jobs so far. Feel free to reach out at info@mariocontino.com Thank you for watching!

@@TheBoardGarage What state are you in?

New York.

@@TheBoardGarage you should contact LaCroix, they're in need & looking for qualified people to service their boards. I know because I had an issue with mine & I know they're looking for people

@@benriding8678 Interesting. 🤔 I appreciate the info, I'll have a chat with them. Cheers sir. And feel free to reach out. I've got another couple of Prototipo videos coming this summer. 🙏

Maybe... 👀

Between 20-30mph usually. I slow down on bridges and near others, usually to about 10-13mph.

Email is best: info@theboardgarage.com

It's not griptape, but actually glass frit that's epoxied onto the surface of the deck. Very grippy, and permanananent.

Sure, you can reach out on my Instagram and we can talk about that.

The battery? Something like $720-750 for a 12s5p.

@@TheBoardGarage sorry yes I meant the battery. Was only curious because I know I want my Kaly 2.0 and evolve GTR eventually upgraded.

The 2.0 is an interesting case...it really depends on how old it is when it comes to upgrading it. Kalys have a tendency to be pretty rough in the early point and then get more sensible as the board is out for a while. I recently saw a damaged 2.0 that was essentially impossible to fix due to a different sized enclosure (which I believe is not made anymore) and some oddness with how the battery was made. The GTR is essentially non-upgradable. It's designed in such a way that everything is sealed in a component housing and everything is proprietary. It doesn't have an enclosure in a traditional sense. Trying to upgrade an Evolve GTR is a waste of time and resources. Unless it's a Carbon GTR, at which point you'd have to gut it entirely and figure out how to build into the shell.