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SegwayUtah

11-27-2016 03:34 AM

Segway MiniPRO Teardown (and teardown of "fake MiniPRO")

From Russia, with English subtitles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0aongurWxY

The presenter compares the Ninebot MiniPRO, the Xiaomi MiniPRO and a "fake MiniPRO". And compares and contrasts them with a lot of detail including packaging, exterior and interior.

Around the 18 minute mark, he tears apart all three of them, their motors and their batteries. It's actually pretty fascinating to see how the machines are put together.

Tritium

11-27-2016 04:15 AM

I see the weight limit on the Original is 100kgs/210lbs

I am 235 when wearing full loadout.

I wonder how significantly that would affect the performance of the unit.

-Tritium

SegwayUtah

11-27-2016 07:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tritium (Post 240476)

I see the weight limit on the Original is 100kgs/210lbs

I am 235 when wearing full loadout.

I wonder how significantly that would affect the performance of the unit.

The official payload weight spec on the Segway MiniPRO is 220 lbs.

I don't know what the official tire spec is for Ninebot-brand tires, but the compatible tires I saw for sale on Aliexpress had a weight of 150 lbs. each...so subtract 28 pounds from that and the absolute upper limit of a Segway MiniPRO could be as high as 268 lbs (with zero remaining spec headroom).

I'd recommend staying at or below the official 220 lbs. weight limit.

The Segway i2s can handle 235 pounds, no problem.

Tritium

11-27-2016 07:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SegwayUtah (Post 240479)

Good to know!

Guess I better go on a diet for a few weeks!

-Tritium

SegwayUtah

11-27-2016 07:12 AM

P.S. The irony that Chinese clone makers are knocking off Chinese-made Segways wholesale is not lost on me. I hope that Segway can put an end to that.

It seems like Segway is now finally taking off after a decade (volume-wise) and the whole Ninebot/Segway team really deserves to see some good profits from all their innovation hard work.

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