Foil Drive Assist, DIY

Cell-Supply in Tauranga should be able to help. I am about to start my first battery and will try them out. Can feedback if needed…or could buy in bulk together for better price

Has anyone got a printable design for these mounts to hold the box to the board?

I’ve already got the dual lock and the bunnings strap so would love to avoid paying $100 (NZD) for two bits of plastic.

Im sure you could make them yourself on onshape or with fusion 360 .
Just measure how wide the strap is + clearance. You got a picture of the shape and you go!

Ps: sorry I don’t have a design ready.
Onshape I easy get into though and great to learn for future projects. Sorry for the answer without a design.

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Here is another option. Foil Assist Base Anchor by seagullnz - Thingiverse

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@nekitesurfing Interested to hear what you think of my runtime (based on your experience).

Im only getting just over 10mins efoiling…

I am running 11s3p
6384 120kv
trinity 3 blade prop
(I also have Microhobby 2 blade folding prop which i will try to redu e current draw)
F one skate 1050 foil
90 litre f one wing board

On 3p 10min seems good. What batteries are you using? If you had 12p then say 40min kinda typical real efoil times especially on such a small wing.

Are you using the Maytech remote? If so, what % throttle are you using to keep up on the foil? On a big foil with a 3 blade motor, I’m at around 45% throttle. On a 12s2p pack made of p45b cells I can get around 20 mins of efoiling although I rarely do this as I’m frequently out in waves and spend a lot of time with the motor out of the water.

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I mistakenly bought the cheap 6384 with hall sensor. My idea was to do the potting, do I return the motor, do I potting and cut the sensor wires coming out?

Just remove the sensor, if you remove the bell, you can acces the sensor pcb and remove it.

Have you seen this? I have same motor, considering it as an alternative

and

The Foil drive Assist Plus uses a Flipsky FSESC V6.7 Pro.

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Hi all I’ve finally finished my foil assist and it’s a success but not without few issues my setup is all maytech gear 6579 motor with 160amp esc on 50p 12s3p. I’ve build my board around assist it is 5’8”x22”x5” @90litres. I carboned motor mount directly onto Armstrong mast at 25cm below bottom board. Everything run great but I’ve reduced throttle curve down to 80%. The only issue I’ve had is the board under power is pitching up too much in nose forcing me to stand too far forward I’ve now changed pitch angle of motor mount so to drive board forward and maybe down a bit so I’m hoping I can have my feet placement similar to wing foiling in my straps.
My question is has anyone else had this issue ?




Interesting, can you show some pictures?
Also interesting to know what the put into gen2…

Hello all,

For guys who might be interested, a friend of mine succeded to connect his computer to an original Gen 1 Foildrive Vesc, setup :

BLDC
1600W
Current max motor 110 amp
Current max absolut motor 130 amp
Current max batterie 60 amp

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Cool idea with the water cooling. Out of interest: Where are you located?

It works well! New Zealand :new_zealand:

I recently started building my own. Currently waiting for cells being available again for the batteries. But will keep this in mind.
Ah, that’s what I thought based on the protein jogurt :sweat_smile:.
Cheers from Mount Maunganui :raising_hand_man:

Cool! Im actually from Tauranga but living in Foxton Beach now. From cell supply? I believe they are in Tauranga and where I got my P42A cells from.

Yes, cell supply and they are in TGA. Just waiting for the new cells to arrive.
Tiny tiny world. I’ll sing out next time i am in Himatangi beach :slight_smile: Hope the foil is good down there :muscle:

Cheers,