I Killed My Onewheel GT (Hall Effect Sensor Broke?)

You read it right, I’m not sure what happened, but I killed it.

I took my Onewheel GT for a ride at the Lagoon Trail here in Farmington Utah, I ride this trail all the time.

This trail connects to The Farm in Farmington Utah, so it’s a great ride.

I had ridden the whole Lagoon trail, and just finished riding The Farm trail and was on my way down back to my car, I had about 2 miles to get to where I had parked.

Going down the hill, my board started making a clicking noise, almost like a stick got stuck under my fender or something.

I started to slow down so I could figure out what was wrong when the board disengaged and lurched forward.

I’m not sure if the board was trying to accelerate or what was going on, but the tail slammed down and I almost fell.

I was able to jump off the board safely, and kick it at the same time, knocking the board on its side and getting it under control.

What is the Hall Sensor?

According to Fierce Electronics the Hall Sensor “is an electronic device that is designed to detect the Hall effect, and convert its findings into electronic data, either to switch a circuit on and off, provide a measurement of a varying magnetic field”.

Suprentals has a cool article that explains how a Onewheel works and it talks about the role of the Hall Effect Sensor.

“The Onewheel has a Hall Effect sensor that measures output voltage as a response to a magnetic field that determines positioning and speed.”

So now what?

Now I ship my board back to Future Motion and see what happens.

I’ll post updates as they happen!