Jetson Electric Bikes Hoverboard with LED Light-Up Wheels

Is there a charger I can buy separately from the hoverboard?

The product itself was fine but it was not a brand new product. The box had been opened previously and the manual was ripped and had stuff spilled on it. We ended up keeping it because I didn't want to have to pay to ship it back. I just felt mislead that the seller claimed it was a brand new product, which it was not. We paid full price and didn't get any deal on it, so we were disappointed.

I wanted to love this. I have seen all the various kinks of hoverboards around, and I decided to wait to try one until after the hullabaloo about the fire hazard risk with some poorly made hoverboards went down. This looked like one that was going to be fun. It has an app that allows you to customize the color and even allow you to use it as a bluetooth speaker. I was picturing myself whizzing around to and fro and playing music with ease. While I still believe this board can be fun, it is not nearly as great as I wanted it to be.It seems well made. It is on the heavy side, and it has a good charger that comes with it. The app is easy to use and works as advertised. The wheels are made of good rubber, and the foot pads offer a generous amount of space to place your feet. The manufacture of the board is fine.The issue is riding the thing. The board has built-in balancing technology that is supposed to keep it balanced. The tech is fine for staying on the board, but makes it very hard to get on and off easily. I am still working on properly mounting and dismounting from the board due to this. When you step on the board it registers you are trying to move it, and it automatically tries to adjust itself, which makes it wobble unpredictably.All of these issues are minor in comparison to the main issue with this thing: the battery life. I don't mind the learning curve, but it is a reall buzz-killer when the board lasts about 15 minutes. To be fair, they do say that the way you use this board greatly influences the duration of the charge on the battery, but only getting a small fraction of time to get up to the point where you can use this thing efficiently is not fun. I wish they had just made the battery larger, so that I can have more time to practice on it. By the time I get my feet planted on this thing and try to use it, it is almost ready to die. This is the main reason why I am disappointed with this board. Yes, there are other issues but with use those can be overcome. The poor battery life cannot. I will try to keep getting better at riding, but with the batter life so low, it will be awhile before I can enjoy this hoverboard.

This a great Hooverboard my daughter loves it

I'll need to start off with some background. I've become a rather avid fan of my Ninebot S. It supports decent range with good versatility and ease of use.This is NOT the Ninebot S.That isn't a bad thing, because when it comes to PTs in general and hover boards in particular, your use case needs to drive the selection process. Looking for a long range commuter-type PT? Ninebot-Segway is going to need to be a choice. On the other hand, looking for a recreational fun-to-play-with kind of thing? Then the options are a bit more broad and design concepts that don't work for a commuter can be welcomed in the recreational.All this is a long way of saying that this is a recreational hoverboard. From the design to the engineering to the features, this is very much something that is more apt to replace a skateboard than a car. Expectations, therefore, should be ratcheted to account for this. At most, it's a fun thing to play with, but it's not intended to be a "serious" Segway killer.That all said, within these constraints I rather like this thing...or more properly, my son does. See, as a recreational hoverboard it fits within the things he likes to do...namely scoot around the paved school playground, or on side streets. If I tried to get it to do much more than that (say, using it to ride instead of walk to the bus stop) I'd rapidly grow irritated. And I think this kind of thing comes through in the design. It doesn't have a huge battery, but enough to give my 100 lb son enough ride time and range to have fun. Because of necessary constraints, heavier riders or going at top speed will drain the battery faster than maintaining a cruising speed (5 mph or so) with a lightweight (100 lb) rider.Anyway, where was I?The setup here is very easy - I did spend about three-four hours charging it out of the box, during which time I installed the Jetson app on my phone. After that it's remarkably intuitive. For my son I did limit the speed via the app so he couldn't go too fast. After a bit of learning, he took to it easily...lean where you want to go. That's basically it. Setup is no issue at all. While charging I also looked at the construction....plastic dominates, of course, but the battery is good quality (no low-cost Li-Ion that will explode randomly.....) and attention seems to be paid to build and fit.Speaking of the battery, care and attention is needed for it. It shouldn't be left on the charger when not in use, as that will damage the battery. Neither should the battery be routinely run down to zero, as that is just as bad. I will run the battery to 20% (the app provides a monitor) and recharge to full then remove from the charger. In this way the battery is kept maintained which, in something like this, is incredibly important. If the battery is destroyed, this is an expensive doorstop.As for riding - it's designed for pavement. It looks like it can handle more, but really---even the gaps in a sidewalk were a bit jarring. The system has no suspension or shock, so everything is transmitted through to the rider....which, in combination with the smallish wheels makes navigating hazards a bit uncomfortable. In other words, when you roll over a stick you definitely feel it. But again....recreational. It assumes you'll be on smooth pavement playing.The features (light up wheels, bluetooth speaker) reinforce the recreational focus. It makes it, well, fun for my son to ride, and it does pop...particularly at dusk.So yeah, I get the concerns with battery life/range and the physical design. These would be unforgivable if the device were being sold as a commuter. But it's not a commuter. It's something to play on/with, aimed at preteen/tweens more than adults. For that, it fills the mission quite well and I do like it.

While this is cool, it was a bit fatiguing to ride, I didn't feel comfortable going fast, it causes the rider to have a slightly hunched posture, and it ONLY works on really smooth surfaces.This was my first hoverboard -- and I don't like it. Since it has artificial physics, and those are a bit hard to predict as it tries to stay balanced, I felt very uncomfortable going at much of any speed. The thing is that it doesn't act totally intuitively when it's making a correction, unlike something with traditional wheels and balance, like a powered scooter or bike. You can always jump off it, and it will stop.I took this all-terrain on the local paved bike path, and it was too much terrain, this can barely get over a few mulch chips on a sidewalk, and certainly can't cross a small pavement crack -- mostly because the wheels are too small.The lights on the sides draw attention, and are not adjustable. The voice and beep are loud, but that was not a problem for me.Not strong enough to go up a small hill -- and the batteries ran out on a small hill (but then was ok for a bit after the hill). This was a hill you could easily walk or bike or take a scooter up.After 20 minutes of test use, it started to rattle at speeds faster than walking.Basically, it's useless for anything other than fiddling around in your living room slowly.