A simpler alternative to VESC? Interest?

Dual drive is usually part of my desired specs.

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Dual drive skates ran as single drive do tend to feel that way, for sure. Also skates with really wide hangers also feel that way.

But a skate designed as single drive first can feel much different.

Just saying, it’s not for everyone but it does excel in the cost and weight categories.

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Over a certain speed, let’s say 15 mph in my opinion, you should have two wheels capable of braking.

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This ESC will be 2 wheel drive only

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so no canbus connection?

After removing the other belt and bumping up the settings of the single motor, I don’t see why it would be any different than a real single drive setup

Mostly because you were probably using super wide hangers. Try BN145.

I tried this with caliber 2s too. Still much of the same. Those have similar effective width to bn145

Caliber 2 are 184mm

Probably not for you. I would lay off the single drive, sounds like a skill issue :rofl:

With short axles, requiring bolt on pulleys and the motors being mounted more towards the center. This results in a similar track width to bn145.

No. Keep in mind this ESC is meant to be a simpler and cheaper alternative to VESC. When it comes to features and big power, VESC will remain the king.

For me, this is the dealbreaker and why I stick with VESC.

I can use VESC to run nearly any PMSM in existence, even a diy one.

An alternative needs to do at least this.

VESC can’t do that, or at least I haven’t been able to do it.

Try a large, high pole count, super low Kv motor and it struggles hard no matter which hardware I try it on. Often it acts like it works, but upon further investigation, it’s not working properly.

Wouldn’t almost any ESC architecture, at least the stuff easily accessible by consumers, have trouble with that?

No.

I was at a robotics competiton many moths ago where out of the over dozen motors there vesc worked out of the box with maybe two of them. Getting the motors to even pass detection took hours of guess and check hacking.

Something that does work is Elmo Motion Control.

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Sometimes you can also use a better motor controller to do detection, and then copy the values into VESC. If you’re really lucky, it might work. But still usually not.

Is this also what Acedeck is using? All their boards seem to be 14S and low KV motors…

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backfire too I believe. they claim the new zealot has a 140A ESC, it would fit the description as well

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They’re using the “elofty ESC” (as I call it), which may also be an orion esc. It would make sense since Onsra is OEM’d by elofty too.

the difference is BF is a bunch of deceptive crooks too. It’s 70 phase amps per motor, which is how they got that 140 amp figure. The 14s2p 50S can do like 40a on a good day, but even then it’ll sag pretty fucking hard.

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