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@@BDRmongoose brute force and a flat bladed screwdriver 🪛 Good point tho thx for feedback

@@fixitdad899 wow, thanks for the quick reply!

Hi Stefan - Thx v much! Board has just one layer of carbon covering whole board - slight overlap along rails. I did a second patch layer underneath the standing area (approx 18" x 26") Bottom of hull has another 2nd layer large patch matching the top standing area patch and a 3rd smaller reinforcing patch over the foil box. I'm honestly not sure if XPS would be strong enough on its own. I weigh 215lbs so probably a no go for me! I did reinforce foilbox to deck by cutting 1" x 10" slices of xps through full thickness of board. I wrapped these blocks and their corresponding channels in 6oz fibreglass and completely glassed the cavity that receives the foil box before I loaded in the foil box. This gives 'pillars' of glass that tie deck to foilbox. To try to keep things light I did not put a sanding layer of glass over the carbon, nor did I do a resin hotcoat - I just faired and spray painted the carbon. I've been riding this board exclusively for a couple of months now and love it. Huge difference in light wind. My first 2 DIY boards were white EPS. They developed leaks and waterlogged. What I love about the XPS is while a single layer of carbon is a bit fragile in places (may have slightly cracked rail skin with my harness once or twice), it doesn't much matter if I get a ding/crack/breach of skin. I just throw some Tuck Tape on for the day/week and resin patch later. The XPS does not take on any water! It's not going to win any beauty competitions, but it's worked out great. I'll only use XPS on future builds moving forward. I will reinforce the rails better, though. Thx for watching and commenting. Happy Foiling! 🏄‍♂️

Thx for watching. Happy vid helped - have a great one!

Think it was a hex bit

@@fixitdad899 crazy you saw my comment 3 mins after i made it, even 2 years after this video was made. new sub for you :)

@@fixitdad899 :)

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Fantastic! Hope that's all it was and that the batteries both treat you right moving fwd.

@@briardguerin1542 you are correct! I found that out later!! Little brass button. Doh!

Hi @kitesurfuk So far so good for me - I used this wing pretty extensively in all months except January so have a solid year on it - I did notice that the rubber seems to have delaminated at some of the edges but only a few mm. If I wanted I could easily glue back down. For me no signs of burn thru mid handle. I wear gloves for a good portion of our Canadian year and same cannot be said for them. Maybe my gloves protecting the handles a bit. I now also have a 5.7 Neil Pryde Fly which has round profile handles and much better neo-wrap so do notice build difference. Vision much chunkier and rectangular. I liked the Vision 8 enough that I bought a 2nd demo unit this spring for weekend properly. It's my steady goto. Would I like a more expensive big wing? .... sure ... but very happy with my economical Vision(s). Happy Winging!

*if you mean the flagging handle on leading edge ... some fraying but not too bad

My pleasure - glad was helpful. Check out other vids about 'waking up' batteries. There's a brass button on the control boards - some vids show hitting that to reset/wake BMS. I did not know that when I shot my vid. Best wishes on your fix!

Hi @ghostawill ... thx for reach out but I'm not actually a repair tech on these machines - I was just showing what I'd learned to fix this particular problem. Uggg - error codes suck! Best wishes on your quest- sorry I can't help more.

Great idea re: the armature lube! Wish I'd thought of doing. May you and sir Dyson enjoy many more spins around the sun! 🌞

Hi thx for reach out. Yes has held up. In fact I'm just about to buy another one for our weekend place. Really happy with. However!!! Do not disconnect the refrigeration line once you've assembled. In theory you can but don't. You likely lose refrig. charge. Other than that aces all the way.

@@fixitdad899 awesome, thank you! Glad to hear it's going strong still.

@@fixitdad899 have you disconnected the line? Can you recharge the system?

i made a similar one

I think we might be a special breed building such things! A lot of family/friends asked 'Why did you build it? What are you going to use it for?' I just built it to see if I could! Sadly it has no use. Good way to test Arduino coding skills. Do you have a video of yours posted? Yours have all 5 digits?

@@fixitdad899 What make me have the idea to make "hand" is a really practical one made by David Lans. no servos,no battery and really useful that no one would doubt. Sadly I still trying on copy/improve his version and not finished yet. BTW I like electricity drived hand too.

Sweet! Good for another 100K KM -

@@fixitdad899 lol yes sir, I love this vacuum but it takes a little of getting use to as it can navigate around easily but at the same time can miss some area if u carried away. 😁

Great idea! - much easier to clean the roller brush when it's out of the machine.

In the immortal words of Scooby-Doo "Ruh-ro!" Hopefully Puff the Magic Dragon didn't getcha. Sorry for tardiness - endeavor to do better next time! 😯

Hi Kent - thx for reach out - apologies but I'm not a treadmill tech so advice limited. 1st thing that comes to mind is ... have you lubricated the belt recently? Even if just walking belt will dry out. If you havent I'd do that 1st. I am not aware of any master reset combo but the old unplug from wall and wait for at least a minute for capacitors to discharge would be what I'd do. Then I'd Google to see if anyone out there has the press x and y and z button combo (which is why you are contacting me I guess!) I suspect 'Horizon' probably just a Canadian cover brand for plant in China and ya ... customer service prob not going to be too great. In one of my other vids you'll see I had to put my own buttons into play to bypass the originals which were acting up / not responding on my unit. Could be a short or wire break somewhere in the chain causing SNAFU in yours. Sorry I cant be of more concrete assistance but best wishes on your quest! Best R

@@fixitdad899 Thank you, sir. I value your reply very dearly. Sadly, Horizon fitness after sale service in Canada is very bad. I want some technician to fix a bypass so that I can continue using it for walking through this winter, but no one is listening. Anyway, thank you again for your kind response.

Hi Kent You mentioned you are located in Ontario. Where abouts are you? Are you in Toronto by chance?

@@fixitdad899 Thanks for your reply. I am in Cambridge, Ontario. It is about 100 km West of Toronto in Kitchener/ Waterloo area.

I have also got a scooters that 1 batteries is charging faster than the others so it would cut off, I assume that will be more likely the BMS than the faulty battery.

Hi Mr. Lee Apologies I dont have a good answer for you - I recommend you reach out to folks on a battery builders forum - my gut says you should never mix ampere ratings as it creates an imbalance - maybe if the 2 single cells have a higher rating than the rest it might be acceptable but I just dont know. I would assume other way around would cause undue risk i.e. adding in 2 cells with lower ratings. Best wishes!

Need my scooter fixed haven’t found a screwdriver to unscrew external battery

Hi there ... at 3:04 in video I show screwdriver - is 3mm Allen/Hex driver. Best wishes on your fix.

Forgot to say I also had to get a new speed controller and a technician look at it.

Thx for commenting. Gives me a great amount of joy knowing that I was able to help ease a little frustration in someone's life! Appreciate you taking the time to share your experience. Hope you have a fantastic day and get out there on your machine. Nothing like a little wind on the face. Best R

Hi Jed It's been a very long time since I removed mine. Going from memory I used a set of old metal measuring calipers with sharp points. (Like a compass from school days but with 2 legs) What I remember is having a challenge turning the plug counterclockwise in the tube thread until I used the calipers in the two slots/cutouts in those plugs. There is actually a tool you can buy that inserts into the tube and has two projections that fit into the slots. Think it's $50 or so. I'm way too cheap to buy it! Anyway .. I don't remember having to slide down a channel. I just remember having to spin counterclockwise a bunch to get it out. Does your tube have a thread along the inner surface all the way to the exit? That would be the tip off. All I can offer. Good luck with it!

@@fixitdad899 Thanks! I also made a tool, out of two 1/4-20 bolts. It turns very well for abut 45 degrees, then stops hard against those two splines/ridges. No threading visible anywhere inside. It looks a bit like I have to break two tabs off to be able to turn them further. But I will fiddle a bit more before resorting to violence (haha).

Mine is an ES2, by the way (with an external batter added on)

@@jedfehrenbach9470 Did you remove the external battery mount bar? It also screws into the internal battery case. Once you get that removed, I used a long wooden rod like a broom handle and pushed it out.

Great point about removing the mounting bar

Been sifting through wreck indentifying/documenting for past two days. It's just stunning to see what that kind of heat does to plastics and metals. Aluminum posts looked like melted candles.

Thx for making my day. Happy vinyling to you!

Happy to see things worked out! Turns out my own external lights not coming on anymore. On any of my machines. Our weekend place neighbors caught fire this past weekend... fire jumped to our place within 10 minutes. Total write off. Had 4 scoots inside and carbon fiber wingfoil gear etc. - all gone :(..... Might be time to upgrade!

@@fixitdad899 Wow, that’s crazy. How did your neighbor’s fire start? Was it scooter-related?

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@@xpradaGx not the scoots no ... think may have been a electric golf cart charger on next door front porch ... cause not yet released

@@xpradaGx did see some blue LiCells on neighbors side - my scoots probably shot a few out - not sure if residue was from my side or not

Happy I could help - thx for watching

Hi Evan - if I were you I would remove the external battery from the scooter and see if it will charge directly. I had an issue with one of mine where it was just the charge indicator lights that wouldn't work but battery was charging and another that was just pooched. If it does charge when apart it could still be that connection where they mate together is loose. Good luck with it. Best

I did do that but it still sometimes does the error 42 and doesn’t charge

If you are willing to charge batteries separately - probably is a way. You'd need to connect all 3 packs in parallel. Probably need to put T style connectors T40 T60 etc. onto packs to connect them. You would lose 'one connection' charging. Its beyond what I would take on personally but in theory possible I would think. Best wishes on it if you take it on. Be careful!! LI tricky and goes boom on occasion

Happy I could assist! Have a great day.

Hi there - on one of my scooters - it had gone into 'eco' speed mode. I normally have mine in fast mode. One of the things it does in eco mode is limit the speed. You can either go into the Ninebot app pair your machine and check speed settings OR I think there is a button press sequence that will toggle thru speed settings. *There should be an indicator by the speed readout that shows which mode you are in. Google 'how to change speed settings Ninebot [model #]' and something should come up. All I can think of.

Ouch ... that sucks - these machines really don't have much in the way of suspension. Hard on the internals. Hopefully that shop was able to fix again. Best wishes. Ride well!

Hi Dabiel - sorry for slow response. I never did get to the bottom of why the packs were 1/2 discharging like that. Without knowing cause I've moved on from the dead cells. Once cells are that discharged, I wouldn't trust them anyway. Seen way too many stories about ebikes spontaneously going up in flames lately. Lithium can be so dangerous. Better safe than sorry methinks! Have a good one - thx for watching.

Hi Eric I dont actually know the true answer but .. the first ninebot I purchased used had this issue - it seemed to work just fine - recharged etc. The guy I bought it from still had it under warranty and he made a claim and they shipped a new/refurb external battery out - unfortunately I had to return the 'no light' one. Was going to put it on another scooter. My guess is the light 'board' wiring has shaken loose. Original owner never had an issue. My suspicion is - if you open it up and find the loose connection you might be able to get lights working again. Or just use the app to know how your charge is on external. Best I can offer.

Hi Eric - thx for confirming - I did have a 'I probably should have tried pressing the little brass button' a few weeks after I recorded vid. After watching an @jehugarcia vid. Live and learn! Hey - question 4u. I had another unit where exactly 1/2 cells were near completely discharged and 1/2 were good/near full charge. Any ideas on what might cause that condition? Appreciated. Have a great day.

Hi C - for me it just pulled straight off - think I had to grasp with pliers - may have put a flat bladed screwdriver in once I had lifted a bit to pop it off. Thx for watching. Have a great day.

@@fixitdad899 Yeah I finally got it off but now Im in another predicament.. so the USB port was too loose causing the cable to keep falling off.. I grabbed pliers to squeeze it but squeezed a little too hard and now it wont fit lol... it's so hard to try and expand the USB port again without ruining the inside piece of the USB port.... sooo annoying

Did you give the warrantee folks a try? They were really good with me. Ya - don't think they were made for their serviceability! Finicky for sure. Good luck.

forgot to mention that the pack even without that board is fully balanced with the cells measuring 4.095V !!!

Nice score! I highly doubt you can run reliably without 2nd board. But I honestly dont know for sure. Im.way better at taking things apart than putting them back together 😁 - best wishes with your fix - sounds like you have the know how to get that thing going. 👍

@@fixitdad899 thanks for your reply... I will keep trying to find out the esc led flashing code... it flashes 8 times... as it is impossible to see the actual code because the dashboard doesn't display anything... it is a little bit expensive to risk buying new parts for it... maybe is a good idea to first buy the BMS, then the Dashboard and finaly the ESC.... let's see... ciao from Italy

@@fixitdad899 got some news. I discovered hot the esc flash works. there is a long blink and sucessive blinks. the first , long beep is the decimal of the error code presented in the dashboard. mine was flashing 1 long blink, then 8 shorts. thats means error 18 that is hall sensor problem. after cleaning contatcs started to 2 long blinks then 1 short, meaning 21 (bms error! the missing board)... then I discovered that the black wire that goes from the esc to the dash was faulty. removed the connector from the esc board and soldered the cable directly to the board and ....voilaaa.... dashboard working, beaping and displaying error 21 (BMS)... the conclusion is that the scottter will not run without the bms board (safety). I will need to purchase the board now.

Fantastic troubleshooting sir! Thx for explaining the codes and how you were able to read them. Best wishes on sourcing the part and completing the fix. The good news is these things are everywhere it seems! Usually in the middle of a pedestrian sidewalk unfortunately:)

Hi E - Theoretically ... possibly. IF the electronics are all still good AND you are good with spot welding new cells AND cells are to proper specification - then should work but that's a lot of risk and work in my opinion. Spot welding is a tricky business unless you have correct equipment. Best wishes on your project if you attempt. Please let us know how goes. Thx for watching and commenting.