@nathan Your tail was scraping? Was that because you'd just reached level after a steep incline? How full was your battery? Almost sounds like overvoltage pushback/shut down. I'm kind of stumped.

I'm not pretending to know what your problem was. I usually tell people suddenly having trust issues with the board after an incident is to pad up and just ride it carefully until your confidence is restored or you are able to replicate an issue that requires service.

@mcguiles At 100% they should all be reading the same. Have you done a 24-48 hr charge?

@mcguiles Sounds like you've got a cell balancing problem. What do the individual cells read when it's doing this? If any of them vary by more than about 0.2 V from one another you should do the 24-48 hour charge. It may help to try to run down the battery as much as possible before you do this.

@tartopom Yup. Off road can be a proper workout for sure.

@nathan I dunno, man. It's a changing climate. It's just something that makes sense to me that would explain your failure. That's assuming it actually did shut down and you didn't just auger it in like is usually the case for most people.

@offroadow How much do you and your 11yo sis weigh, if you don't mind my asking.

@nathan Isn't Death Valley like 6 hours south of FM in the same state?

@nathan Not that I know of. It never gets that hot where FM is based. They don't list any range of operating temps for the board itself, just the charger (32°F-122°F FYI).

But 110°F is some crazy high heat for electronics under either mechanical or processing load. All kinds of electronics have their cooling mechanisms defeated well below that. Bet you couldn't use your laptop outside or use GPS on your phone without sudden shutdown/reboot when it was that hot. OW isn't made to military specs or anything. Probably worth telling them about it, TBH so they're aware of the issue.

@pat_hurley Oh, don't get me wrong. You can totally have some fun on it, just suit up and expect to fall a bunch. You just won't be riding it very much and certainly won't be commuting.

It's a good time to send it in for service if you need any, though.

@nathan Bet it was the temp. The sudden work done by that quick elevation gain probably added just enough to the heat built up somewhere in the system to trigger shutdown.

Winter is not the friend of OneWheel. The slick is terrible for both driving and lateral traction on anything with more than the smallest patches of snow and ice. I don't think the rubber compound itself grips very well even in the dry at low temperatures. I did see one guy who studded his tire with pretty good success, though, if you want to go that far.

Your battery life will suffer considerably. I don't know about the road salt, but it's probably terrible. A number of people who've rode around in the surf had to send in their boards, and freshwater beach riders never seem to have that problem.

It's a three season machine for most intents and purposes. Still worth it for those other 9-10 months of the year.