About those patents… Yea those are garbage. They aren’t even selling what they have a patent for. Just a scare tactic.
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Would you mind asking to your electrical engineers … 
Q2: Telemetry is a set a data (tension, current, power, position, …) that are recorded along the ride to be analysed offline on your computer (see EagleTree data logger or slowly move your mouse on metr.at frame below. It is VESC (Q1) that makes all this possible 
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Too bad we have to wait 9 months to experience this new thrill…
There are Americans on this forum? I 
The first patent (US9359044B2) looks like it covers a standard eFoil, but I don’t know much about patents so I could be overlooking some part that limits the scope of it.
where did you get it?Some answers already on pics on the website , this pod looks very well made and clever , I don’t solder this way the plugs… but all of this is very interesting, and I hope it will work out 
I’m glad to see other people who thought to put the motor controller in the pod. If you put the motor controller underwater, BMS, Rx and any other smarts can all live in the battery above the water. Minimize number of boards, keep costs down.
Congratulations on finding funding so you can work on something cool. 
so. happy. for. you.
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I like that the efoil is being made in the USA and is priced at a reasonable cost. I like the design of the board and since I come from the surfing world and making my own surfboard since way back when, the design of this board gives it a early lift as the e-motor pulls you along, the sides/rails looks like it gives you a faster release from any suction from the surface water making the board rise faster. Hope to see this board next year 2020. The only problem I have with e-foil in Calif it looks like it has to be registered with our DMV as a motor vehicle and subject to yearly registration and hull number ID on the e-foil.
I can’t comment on that but to me, it looks like, to cut costs down, it is the first board entirely hot-wire shaped.
The thought of hot wiring this shape makes me cringe. It’s way too complex for that.
These particular units were CNC’d and finished entirely by hand. Production units are molded and then finished by hand.
It was supposed to be a compliment for a team able to think outside the box. It is amazing how precise and complex the CNCed hot cuts can be nowadays, especially if the foam block lays on a rotating plate. Of course, with the battery box, it is more complex.
Oh well thank you. Yes the hot cut CNC machines are extremely precise but the cavity would pose some problems and additional operations. Ours is just a typical surfboard CNC machine. We’re selling one if anyone is interested. 
The savings will come in the molding operation.
Or by the production of (hot-cut) small and simple pieces to be assembled in complex shapes as did Henry Ford a long time ago.
Did anyone preorder one of these?
All of their social media accounts have been silent for months now.
Looks like they are live again, taking preorder deposits for March 2021 delivery - seems ambitious at $4-$7k USD with a carbon mast and “assembled in the US” but I wish them luck and as a recent Waydoo owner will be watching them closely
Website indicates they’re now shipping. They were out doing demos in March according to this website snapshot The World's Most Advanced eFoil | Foil. Has anyone tried? Worth risking being a beta tester - I’m in San Francisco so a long way to ship parts if there is a failure.
Still waiting on components to arrive. Latest update is deliveries will start August.
Prices are going up (from pre-order days) as expected. Board is quite large but electronics and connection appear sleek and simplified.
I won’t consider fulfilling my pre-order until I’ve seen a good number of reviews and ideally tried one myself.
At <$10k (just barely) they will give Waydoo and Takuma a run for the money.
It’s an unproven product from a new company but the founder has an apparently good track record with other companies. Let’s see what/how/when they can deliver on it.
It looks promising to me but I am also trying to do research. I am in NJ and frankly don’t understand why people don’t like the look of the board. If it’s flying through the air who cares? More important will be the design of the motor and foil and what was said above seems to suggest they have thought some of the big problems through better than others. I like simplicity.
Did not see any customer feedback of the getfoil yet. Did they really ship already?
These boards are total garbage. Received mine almost 4 months after I paid for it. In the 3 weeks ive owned it, controller, battery, and motor/prop have all failed. Leaky hatch, rusty hardware. 3 WEEKS!!!
No refunds, period.
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