What is a hoverboard

This shows you the difference between a good quality circuit board and a low quality one. Usually the blue and green ones are better quality and the bright garish circuit boards are low quality.

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Blue and Green circuit boards imply better quality

 

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Bright garish coloured circuitboards are of a low quality

You can see the battery in the picture below. It has a white label on it, and if you read it carefully, it will give all the specifications and also the brand of the battery. This hoverboard has a Samsung battery. The hoverboards have a lithium-ion battery of around 37 volts. They are big batteries, but just to bring it to scale, a Tesla S vehicle has a lithium-ion battery of 375 volts.

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This hoverboard has a low quality Chinese battery, and the text on the label is Chinese.

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This is what a genuine Samsung battery looks like.

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The motors of the hoverboard are inside the wheels. Here you can see the motor inside the hoverboard wheel.

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The foot boards control the speed and direction of rotation of the wheels.

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The main chassis of the hoverboard is formed by two solid metal pieces joined by a rotating shaft. It is the heaviest part of the hoverboard.

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This video shows a hoverboard being taken apart.


This video explains how the foot pads control the speed and direction in which the wheels rotate.

 

For more on hoverboards have a look at one of these sections:

Which is the best hoverboard?

How much is a hoverboard?

How to ride a hoverboard?

 


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