Archived: the OG noob question thread! 😀

[BillGordon]

Hi Patrick-

First off, welcome to esk8.news! I bumped your account so you’re not limited in posting or messaging.

Have you considered walking back to a previous version of Vesc Tool (I still use 0.83) or trying it with Ackmaniac?

You can find previous versions of vesc tool here:

Precompiled VESC Tool Archive

Since each build of the VESC Tool is compatible with only a few particular versions of the VESC Firmware, every now and then we find ourselves searching around for a place to download a precompiled executable of one of the older versions. When faced with this situation you either have to find it by googling, ask around on the forum, or download the source code and compile it yourself. All of these take time and can turn a simple task into a real pain. To remedy this, we have decided to crowdsou…

Here’s a great Ack runthrough with the hirsute and girthy @mmaner:

How to: Ackmaniac ESC Tool

There have been some reports of weird drivetrain behaviour with 4.1 and I got firmware timeouts when I checked it out the other day.