Even my electric lawn mower has a fusible link (it's actually a mini circuit breaker) that is designed such that you can yank it out, as a child safety feature. No fusible link installed, no power to the motor.

[–] lpinfinity@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For just about any other case, I would say thats a great solution, but EUCs are self-balancing devices. A switch would be a potential failure point, and experiencing a power loss at speed would likely result in serious injury.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So you trust a software switch more. One that's not under your control and is theoretically subject to bugs, and can be demonstrably manipulated remotely.

Makes sense to me.

[–] lpinfinity@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Fair point to some extent, but an electric speed controller (esc) is efficiency a software controlled switch anyway and thus is prone to the same manipulation. I suspect that this 'software switch' is nothing more than a flag telling the esc not to engage the motor.

[–] lpinfinity@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, fair enough honestly