In this test, you will drop the hoverboard from different heights. Play around, but be sure to test at least one low, medium, and high drop. Examine the hoverboard for physical damage after the drop. Run the hoverboard to determine if it is still safe.
Drop Test Height
Way to take it to the extreme. Now you’ve really done it. Clearly that drop caused some major physical damage to the hoverboard – exposing the wiring and the dangerous mechanical parts inside*. This hoverboard is a complete failure! That’s higher than we normally drop hoverboards at UL – but hey, this is XplorLabs and we’re testing extremes. Also, we normally wouldn’t even run a hoverboard with this much damage because it’s already dangerous enough but in this virtual environment, it’s fine for us to run it and see if we did any damage to the battery pack.
*Our real-life tests run for 15 minutes at 18 mph, but we’ll speed things up here in our virtual lab. Also note that the battery temperature will always start at 75°F to represent ambient room temperature.
Drop Test Height
You can see that although the exterior cracked, it looks like this hoverboard will still run. Want to find out if we did some damage we didn’t see? Run it.*
*Our real-life tests run for 15 minutes at 18 mph, but we’ll speed things up here in our virtual lab. Also note that the battery temperature will always start at 75°F to represent ambient room temperature.
Drop Test Height
There was little physical damage to the hoverboard’s exterior, wires weren’t exposed and the hoverboard ran without increasing the temperature of the lithium ion battery pack beyond the safe operating zone. This hoverboard is good to go. So stay cool and hover on.
Make sure to drop this hoverboard from other heights to see what happens under other test conditions.