I have a getFOIL.com brand board that had water enter the motor pod and blow up the speed control. Get FOIL says that because the board was purchased from a previous owner they will not honor the warranty. I really don’t want to send the motor pod back to Get FOIL for them to replace the speed control. At this point I believe Get FOIL is not a company that I would trust and would rather not give them any more business. Does anyone recognize this speed control as a part that is available from a retailer other than Get FOIL?
A really sad news : as LIFT, a non transferable warranty…
This is the SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE remedy available to the original purchaser
during the warranty period for breach of this warranty. This warranty is
NON-TRANSFERABLE.
I don’t think any of the companies offer a transferable warranty.
No clue what eac that is, but I’d imagine you could use many different escs on the getfoil board as I don’t see a data connector.
Among the companies I know allowing transfer: xfoil,
I read the Fliteboard one was transferable and nothing so far says it is not.
Other brands ? Worth checking… Takuma, Sifly,
I started to disassemble the FOIL speed control with hopes of replacing the blown mosfets, but I can’t see any identification numbers on the good mosfets to know what to replace them with. I will probably end up sending the motor pod back to FOIL to have them replace the speed control. I hope they will replace it for a reasonable price as it is clearly a manufacturing defect that let water into the speed control portion of the motor pod and there was also a capacitor which was never correctly soldered to the speed control circuit board.
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I have an update to my FOIL speed control problem. After further communication with FOIL about this blown up speed control I decided to purchase a complete new “powertrain”. That is what FOIL calls their mast/speed control and motor assembly. My decision was based partly on the 1 year warranty that they offered on the new powertrain and they were also willing to sell me the “upgraded racing powertrain” for the price of their standard powertrain. Well less than 2 months after I spent $2500 on the new powertrain FOIL has gone out of business. One good thing about FOIL going out of business is that some of their suppliers are now willing to sell directly to the customers and people have been doing research on who those former suppliers are. Sunray Motion Technology in China made the ESC and motor assembly for FOIL and when I contacted them they were willing to sell me a replacement ESC and the machined aluminum enclosure that holds it in the pod on the mast. Shipping of the new ESC was super fast but it did have a couple of small issues that I should warn potential buyers about. The newest FOIL ESC enclosures were filled with epoxy potting material to keep water off of the ESC even if there was a leak in the silicone sealing the enclosure lid and wire entrances. I believe FOIL added this epoxy in house after receiving the ESCs from Sunray. The ESC enclosure that I received from Sunray had the lid siliconed on but there was no epoxy potting in it. There are holes on each end of the enclosure that are for filling the enclosure with epoxy. I would recommend filling the enclosure with some kind of potting compound and then using silicone or 3M 5200 to close up the fill holes. Also when I removed the ESC enclosure lid I found that one of the 3 phase motor wires was pinched and shorted to the enclosure. I am not sure what would have happened if the ESC was powered up with that wire shorted to the enclosure. If anyone else is looking for a replacement FOIL ESC feel free to send me a message and I will get you the email address of my contact with Sunray Motion Technology.
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Hey man….i noticed you seemed really knowledgeable abt these boards. Im hoping you can help me with one I’m having issues with. Everything seemed to work fine when I bought it used until I jumped on it in the water. It will only go 4mph I replaced the motor and ESC thinking that would be the issue but it doesn’t still doesn’t seem to have much power. The battery tested at 57v so I’m stumped. Any help or suggestions is appreciated.
Thank you!
I have not encountered a problem like what you are describing. If you have replaced the ESC and motor and are still having the same problem maybe test the continuity and resistance of the large mast power wires? Maybe they are corroded under the insulation? If the wires seem alright then maybe the relay-contactor inside of the battery enclosure is not making a solid connection? There is a Get FOIL owners group on Facebook that you may want to ask your question on. Maybe someone else has had a similar problem.
Could you share some more information on getting to the esc?
I have a blown fuse in the battery, this was replaced and once I put everything back together the motor made some twitches and blew the fuse again without going through the full cycle. Could also be the motor wires that are pinched?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
JJ
To get to the FOIL ESC unscrew the motor-ESC nose cone, remove the nut holding on the prop, pull off the prop being careful to not loose the prop shaft keys and spacer washers in front of the prop. Then remove the Allen screws holding the black plastic transition taper cone shape in front of the prop. That will allow the outer aluminum sleeve over the motor to be pulled off. The sleeve has a little indexing pin which prevents it from spinning near the front edge. With the front nose cone and aluminum motor sleeve removed you can access the screws to remove the clamp attaching the motor-ESC pod to the mast. The ESC has a cover that is siliconed to the ESC enclosure, but accessing the ESC will be nearly impossible if the enclosure has been filled with potting compound. I believe that FOIL intended to pot all of their ESCs. I was the unlucky buyer of one that they missed and did not fill, resulting in a leak and a blown up ESC. With the ESC enclosure removed from the mast you can separate the wire connections between the ESC and motor and mast and ESC. Then you can test continuity and resistance of he mast wires and test the motor by spinning the shaft with a drill while checking the voltage between 2 of the phase wires at a time. The voltage should be similar between each of the 3 possible phase combinations.
Thanks a lot @Gsxrcrasher, very much appreciated.
I will continue with disassembly later this week, anyone have the specs or product number from the replacement ESC and or Motor? As they are trying to push to buy a kit with their remote for $1000 +/-. I unscrewed the cone and found there to be a lot of salt residue in there and a funky smell. Will update later once everything is open and may help someone else in the future.