12-08-2017 01:12:16
A hoverboard can be called as self-balancing scooter, or two-wheel board, etc. Many people may have been wondering about the question: how does the hoverboard work? Now we will have a simple interpretation on it.
The electric hoverboard is made up of several components, which is vital to the self-balancing electric scooter. First, let’s have a look at the main structure of the hoverboard. Generally, a hoverboard consists of the following main components:
● A plastic cover
● A steel chassis with a central pivot
● Power on/off switch
● A charging port
● A battery pack
● A mainboard and co-boards
● Two motors
● Two gyroscopes
● Two infrared sensors
● Two tilt/speed sensors
● Two wheels
Now, let’s come to see how these components inside the hoverboard work.
When removing the housings, we will find the chassis, normally made of steel, with a central pivot that joins both sides of the structure, allowing tilting and declining the scooter.
On one of the two sides, it is the battery pack, usually 36 volts and 4.4 amps per hour, although it may vary slightly depending on the model. On the opposite side of the battery, we find the mainboard, which is the brain of your hoverboard. This logic board processes the information that comes from the co-boards that are the two smaller plates located at both ends of the device that make the gyroscope function, and sends it to the motors (two located at each end of the device inside of the wheels), making them turn at the speed necessary to stabilize the center of gravity.
Outwardly, the scooter has plastic pads and under each of them, there are two balance tabs that move when exerting pressure, when lowering the tabs make contact with the tilt/speed sensors located under the co-boards. It acts according to the inclination detected by the gyroscopes that will make it go at more or less speed. In this example, when disassembled, we do not have the pads, instead we press directly on the tabs.
The hoverboard also has several lights, the front lights and the status lights. The status lights, as its name indicates, indicate the battery status and the status that will tell us if it is on, with a green light, or if there is an error, that the light will turn red and blink, giving us a code of error.
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