Friday, January 4, 2019

Replacing Hub motors on personal electric skateboard

In this project, my modified skateboard needed its hub motor wheels changed. The wheels are shown on the left and below. They show the wheels severely damaged and weathered after around 200 km of use.



The old hub motor was removed and the new red hub motor was installed which was bought on Ali-express.

The main power wires were connected to the correct colours of yellow to yellow, blue to blue and green to green.
However, the hall sensors connectors for the hub motors are connected in a different sequence. This is shown below. The correct sequence was identified by trial and error. This trial and error did not damage the circuitry. But do try on your own risk.