Wren's DIY One Wheel Mod Let's you Charge while you Ride!

an entire star wars trilogy created by air this is the one

wheel

pretty much the best electric vehicle that isn't a car i put over 3000 miles on this thing now obviously i didn't get all those miles on a single

charge

this is actually the A first generation

wheel

that only has a range of about six miles and that's great just for riding around town but once you get a few miles on you have to start looking for a place to

charge

unless you do what I do and use a mobile charging solution. to charge

while

you're in the field this way a solar controller using a solar controller you can feed power from any battery to the wheel so my friend ian really took this to the next level and packaged it into a self contained charging solution.

On the move, it's called car power, it's quite nice and works very well, this is the exact system I use when I'm on a mountain or in the countryside, wherever I'm far from a power outlet and still need to charge a wheel. I've seen comments on that mountain video asking whether or not I can charge

while

driving. I always answered no, you can't carry and walk at the same time, it's not possible, except it's possible, it's very possible and I'll try it. Now the charger that plugs into a wheel uses what is called an the third pin is literally just there to tell a wheel if it's plugged in or not and to not turn it on if it now is, obviously you don't want a situation where it's plugged in and the wheel turns on and thinks it's operational even though it's still tied to a wall, that's where this mod comes in, if you unplug that third pin, the wheel doesn't actually know that it's no longer plugged into the wall, although it will still be able to receive power which is critical for this mod, so what? what's happening?

What's really happening here is that we're tricking a wheel into thinking it's getting regenerative energy by going downhill, even though that's not the case. Now I want to clarify that this video is not a tutorial and that if you decide to try it. You also run the risk of ruining your board and, worse, perhaps causing it to shut down mid-

ride

, which can cause significant injury, so I don't recommend trying this. You've been warned that a big deadline is looming behind us, it's like the forest field. blooms behind the main characters in this piece the blue zone is shrinking we have to deliver a trailer at the end of this week we have to close the cup at the end of this week and then next week is our week to finish all the effects all the sound, all the music and then it comes out, it seems like there's a faster schedule than most, but what if I told you that's how all the CD videos are made on a reckless, groundbreaking schedule like this?

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I actually had a chance to talk to the developers and they said yes, we don't do hard times, we just properly manage our projects, so that's what we do here, we just properly manage our projects. I have ten more of these to make. Together they did a pretty solid job of picking out some really good character beats early on and even the fight scenes came together working yeah and I'm excited for this mod that I want to use forever or as long as my batteries run out. So the most common form of battery to charge on the go is this, it's a 10 cell battery, thanks China, it's actually the exact same battery that you'll find inside those classic two-wheeled hoverboard type scooters that don't have no name so everyone just calls them hoverboard even though they don't float in the air and now it's charging, unplug it, you don't need any special balance, it's all done internally.

That's the good thing about these batteries compared to, say, a lipo battery, this one has a lot more power, but as you can see, it's not protected, if you punctured it with something, it could explode, like in this video. For this mod, there are two main things that we are going to adjust and basically I am going to disconnect the third pin inside this socket and also extend the length of this cable. I'm going to use it as a classic little laptop cable. I can jump rope with this. You have scissors? No, do you have scissors?

This is going to I feel really weird, I'm going to cut the tip off of this. There's something about cutting electrical wires like this with scissors that feels so wrong. Oh that was what was dirty now to cut the other end so the reason I did that is because I only need the two wires on this cable one is negative one is a positive terminal and I'm going to solder some xt60 connectors to the ends of these, so actually the second part is a very specific 90 degree angle xlr port on the In case you crash or spill, it won't tip over and break the port.

You can actually choose which angle it goes. I'm going to rip out one of these pins. I'm going to solder the two wires to the other two. pins in theory this should work time for some very scary soldering. I'm decent at welding now I don't worry about that. I'm worried about ruining a wheel if this is running just a little worried. That moment when I tell you about the beautiful and wonderful world of Squarespace. That's right, this segment is sponsored by Squarespace and once again I'm here to tell you how simple and amazing the digital.com broker website has been for you to own.

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It's that simple, you're welcome. So it's been a weekend, I took this home and tried it to see if it worked. I realized I needed some way to mount this on my backpack, so what I did was I literally took some duct tape and basically did a pull-a-string, so this is literally hanging off the back of my backpack using some duct tape and some rope left over from our couch pillows, pillows, do you know what this is? This is all a bit nuts, I needed a way to mount this green baddie on the back of my backpack.

I 3D modeled a support for this mppt in fusion 360. All holes are aligned. How about I go ahead and put these screws in to mount this thing and that's it? Works. There are few more satisfying things in life than when you model something and you print it and now it's real and useful, it's working, so here's the finished socket arm and you see my little quick release port here, so when I drop it, it just unplugs it doesn't cause any damage it doesn't tangle at all so here's another problem I've run into if I crash and it rolls to the side the entire force of the impact goes straight into the plug and the plug itself not designed to To withstand that kind of impact, there is a gap between the actual socket and the rest of the wheel, so if I press here, all the force of that pressure goes to the socket instead of the plate, which people have done online is that you actually buy these sockets and literally just put them on like this and this is supposed to protect the plug from your shocks.

The problem is that this socket is too big and it doesn't actually sit well in the socket and falls out. very easily so that's a problem the plug could break inside and the whole wheel is dead so what I did was 3D model another part and 3D print today this was the original v1 this is v2 , you want to see something super. satisfactory, so I put this here and then connect it. This should be able to take a hit and not damage anything. I haven't done a proper test with this yet and I really want to compare it to something that is really good. and I can go distances like Jan's onewheel xr.

I'm really intrigued to see if we can both

ride

from my house to the studio tomorrow and see which of us will make it. I feel like we've been traveling for a while now. A little, yeah, and I don't think we have even a single mile, but we haven't even done 10 the way you're such a negative Nancy in the morning. You know, Jan is very skeptical about silly things like this. It's not professionally built, it's not going to last, it will eventually show up probably sooner rather than later and it will just fail completely. I hope you are wrong.

I also think what makes a wheel so great is how tough they are, they're just built, tonka. I can drop these things from almost anything and just hop back on them and ride my experience with external batteries it's a solid uh drop and that's it so hey no it's not no it's not I don't hate the home monitors if you are if you are telling someone who seems to be having more fun with you oh sorry sorry now I'm littering if I picked it up like I dropped it I'm now literate since I picked it up in January unfortunately I think That would be littering now I'm taking responsibility for handing that over to a trash can that's why I don't help now you just carry a bag that's life sometimes you help people you get a bag don't let them his friends, even if it means carrying a bag with you for two and a half miles ren is testing his new one wheel mod the problem is that his test involves traveling to the studio traveling to the studio with jan jen has never entered the studio without attacking us, oh, what's up, son?

We have a wild circle for the game. A game of What Did We Do? We just traveled here from Pasadena. Really, yeah, three guys come and they've got big ground guns and they're going. They're coming right now, literally, dude, the mod worked, I got 15.1 miles and I still have 74 batteries left, but it worked, man, we got here, it took us a couple hours, but we made it, dude, everyone's here today. A whole flanking maneuver was set up, so the moment the door opened, they came in, we turned around to shoot. Oh, it's perfect, yes, I saw them come in.

Oh, she saw us come in. No, I heard them come in. Steve warned us. I saw Steve running. When I saw us, he turned around and ran inside. NoI could see who it was. I just knew that some guys were coming down the street and if I had had my camera I would have done it in slow motion because they looked like reservoir dogs. If you have your own 3D printer or have a service you want to use, I will make them available to the public for free for you to download if you wish.