Engineering an Electric Skateboard

[Guest]

 

I am currently in a project trying to create an electric skateboard. It was easy to draw the skateboard up in SketchUp itself but I've run into the problem of powering it. I have a few ideas. The first would be to convert an electric scooter (which I don't have) to fit and power a skateboard. The other is to use a drill and put it directly against a wheel and use a bike's brake cable to squeeze the trigger of the drill. My problem here is burning up a drill's motor as well as mounting the thing itself. Any other ideas on powering or mounting? What could be a good source of power and/or a motor? Thanks for any help.
- Connor

Also, how should I attach a SketchUp file? That might make this easier.

[thatguyyouknow75]

i dont think a drill has the torque. do what i did, a lawnmower engine

[Jaybird]

 

if you do everything yourself youll probably be looking at around $300 and if you get a kit about $600 and a plug and play system will cost around $1000. good luck on your journey. right now the price is too high for me to venture down this road. 

[W-L]

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If your wanting to make your own electric skateboard I would look for high torque electric motors, using a belt drive system would probably be your best bet in terms of efficiency. For power though Using Li-po batteries are going to give you power you need. 

 

A drill motor is very capable of all of this just keep in min how you will mount all of this and the batteries.

[Guest]

 

if you do everything yourself youll probably be looking at around $300 and if you get a kit about $600 and a plug and play system will cost around $1000. good luck on your journey. right now the price is too high for me to venture down this road. 

 

 

If your wanting to make your own electric skateboard I would look for high torque electric motors, using a belt drive system would probably be your best bet in terms of efficiency. For power though Using Li-po batteries are going to give you power you need. 

 

A drill motor is very capable of all of this just keep in min how you will mount all of this and the batteries.

 

This is all meant to be a home-spun project (The goal is to not spend much money on store products. I might as well buy a BoostedBoard at that point.) I think I have an idea for a belt system if I can find a belt. Any idea for that?

[W-L]

 

This is all meant to be a home-spun project (The goal is to not spend much money on store products. I might as well buy a BoostedBoard at that point.) I think I have an idea for a belt system if I can find a belt. Any idea for that?

 

True those are very pricey for what they are but if you want to DIY it if you can get short timing belts with a pulley it would work well. Probably short belts like that are best found online or in places like lawn tools which uses those timing belts.

 

I would look into a mounting method and control system for it if your keeping it as a switch throttle that you can push or a kind of wireless system.

[Guest]

 

 

 

True those are very pricey for what they are but if you want to DIY it if you can get short timing belts with a pulley it would work well. Probably short belts like that are best found online or in places like lawn tools which uses those timing belts.

 

I would look into a mounting method and control system for it if your keeping it as a switch throttle that you can push or a kind of wireless system.

 

The nice thing about using a brake as a throttle is that you have variable speed. I can look around for belts.

[W-L]

The nice thing about using a brake as a throttle is that you have variable speed. I can look around for belts.

 

You may be able to setup a regenerative system where you can reverse polarity for braking, you may need to look into that though if that can work that work.