The first board I bought was the Emad 400w Concrete Carver. It advertises a 7 - 10 miles range. But I soon learned that it didn’t have enough juice to take me to work and back. (I live 3 miles from work)
Shortly afterwards, the controller broke. I sent the board back, and they fixed the controller. But now the board could hardly even make it to work one way. I tried to get the board fixed, but nothing worked. Until I filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. After that, the owner, Jerome Claxton, promptly took my board in for repairs, where they installed a new battery.
But the board still never went much more than 3 miles for me. And that’s being generous, as the board really ‘limps’ when its charge gets low. I sent the board in a third time. But Jerome, aka Emad, claims it is working just fine.
His logic? That I’m too old for the 400w model, and that I should have purchased the 600w model. Despite the fact that I weigh 170 pounds and the board says it can carry a load of 225. He put an employee of his, who weighs 150 pounds, on the board, and had him go 5 miles on the board around the lake. Then, he declared my board to be in working order.
How Jerome Claxton can bullshit this hard, I’ll never know. 75 lbs under weight, and half the advertised distance, and he thinks everything is fine.
TL;DR
The bottom line about the Emad 400w board is simple. It’s a very heavy board, which is good if you’re a beginner. The weight makes it easy to step on and off from. It’s cheap, which is good for anyone. But it won’t go half the range of what the box claims. Use it, have fun with it, if you want a good idea about how far you can go, please watch this youtube video I made, draining the battery from full, going once around my neighborhood. It’s not really a watching video, just a documentary on the battery life.
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