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I use a unity currently in 1 of my builds just curious thats all.

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All good yah haven’t heard only negative things about them, lots of positive too. Each motor can only be driven by a single ESC though so if running dual unities for real you’d be going 4WD or have the extras disabled I don’t think there’s any way to get them opening the gates to let power flow to coils in the motor in perfect synch otherwise.

6613

What if I ran the phase wires in parallel with a single motor?

@Deodand Bad idea?

6614

Won’t work; Nothing to keep the two controllers in sync.

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6615

Yah basically was saying no to that above but will let others clarify… I’ve been wrong before.

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6616

If the FETs still worked on the dead side, it might be possible to hotwire it so all 12 FETs were driving one motor – but I wouldn’t trust my face or elbows to such a setup.

To be clear, you’d have to do MAJOR surgery to the PCB

And then things like temperature sensing might not be reading half of your drivers

The short answer is “no” you cannot do that. Of course, with enough time and money you can do anything though…

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6617

Yeah. It might be possible to parallel the power stages to both run from one brain, but it would be a reverse-engineering adventure.

There’s no provision to have two brains, each running a separate power stage, sync up to run one motor.

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6618

We wouldn’t be having this discussion if folks weren’t buying “dual” ESCs.

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That’s the big advantage of some of the “modular” ESCs I’ve seen - You can use one brain to run any kind of power stage. Need 10v and 10000A? No problem. Need 100V and 100A? Also not a problem.

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6620

There aren’t enough affordable single options that last.

yet…

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6621

I agree 100%. There are multiple vendors and individuals working the problem.

Be patient and buy used ones or Flipsky or shell out for VESC6 in the meantime

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6622

me and my brother are currently hoarding like 5 Focboxes so we are good.

Just like experimenting with stuff as we are still young and dumb.

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6623

If you’re young and dumb, and you know you’re young and dumb, then you’re smarter than the other 99.9% who think they are the smartest gift to society the world has ever seen…

Man when I was younger I thought I was the fucking bomb, but in fact I didn’t know shit. It’s funny now to me.

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6624

Forgot who, but someone once told me that the more you know, the more you know you don’t know.
In the same vein, knowing what you don’t know is the first step towards learning!
It’s a great outlook that I wish more people would take to heart.

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6625

I was told something by a teacher that will forever stick with me.

You can be as intelligent as you want in school, but when it comes to life you need experience.

because of this I’ve always understood that I’m only 15 and I have so much to learn, unlike the self centered, Smart ass kids at my school. I have always taken criticism not as a bad thing but something to learn from and build off of which Is why I value the forum so much.

Also stupid opinion but a movie that should honestly be required to watch before graduation is Good Will Hunting. If you have ever watched it, you know what I mean.

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6626

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6627

Noob Question

Why isn’t your names Shiny Sparkly Amazon Princess

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6628

Well there ya go

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6629

I cant imagine what its like to a new person when they see :joy:

Dareno’s shit list #7,659

shiny sparkly amazon princess

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6630

:arrow_up:

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