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Anyone thought up any interesting designs yet? I saw some posts in other threads people were thinking of trying to make some with 3d printers. I made this one while studying battery layout options. It has 16S4P. I built it around a 16" ebike motor dimensions but it might be a little too wide, I'm not sure if the EUC motors have special shortened axles.

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@ lizardmech, I am not sure : did you build it, I mean realize hard, or is it a computationnal design (splendid one, btw) ? In fact, I am not sure that a 3D printed shell would be solid enough, any material it is built in, that would be a real size test...

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14 minutes ago, Maxime said:

@ lizardmech, I am not sure : did you build it, I mean realize hard, or is it a computationnal design (splendid one, btw) ? In fact, I am not sure that a 3D printed shell would be solid enough, any material it is built in, that would be a real size test...

It's a 3d rendering, the best option is to print out a 3d mold and use carbon fiber. It's not overly difficult or expensive just too time consuming for mass production.

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You would need to engineer some sort of mounting mechanism, my idea was to make the primary part without a seam running down the middle. It would also let you change housings without removing batteries, and control boards, so production lines could make one set of naked EUC and turn them into different models just by changing covers and battery layout. 

It might be possible to print this, it would need some support ribbing and I didn't finish the rear vent yet.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9A_COVyKU7oUXVhZmdwZTh6S00/view?usp=sharing

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11 hours ago, lizardmech said:

You would need to engineer some sort of mounting mechanism, my idea was to make the primary part without a seam running down the middle. It would also let you change housings without removing batteries, and control boards, so production lines could make one set of naked EUC and turn them into different models just by changing covers and battery layout. 

It might be possible to print this, it would need some support ribbing and I didn't finish the rear vent yet.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9A_COVyKU7oUXVhZmdwZTh6S00/view?usp=sharing

thanks for sharing! A quick dirty print ..resized. Some problem with the top/internal surface ..:)

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Great @Berus and @lizardmech :-)

For a 3D printing shell, since rate of fail on 3D Pritning is higher with the printing time, I would make the shell in 2 or 4 parts - also like that, smaller printers would be able to print. Also, I would design for the already existing cheap battery packs, controller board, motor and pedals -- we can buy a full generic EUC in parts except the shell - anyway, is maybe better to do our own shell so we can make one with more space for extra battery packs :-)

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