Umm, I go with the default settings and only increase stuff if it feels underpowered. Not trying to bust anyoneâs balls. If the main maintained vesc-tool has issues it should get called out and fixed.
@mmaner, what crazy values are you talking about? I have always found them to be conservative. Can you link me? I curious what might have happened.
So I ordered a second receiver from Hoyt St. and it arrived today. Same problem. If I shut off the remote with power still on to the board the wheels spin up to full speed after a 1 second delay (the lost signal timeout). I have also ordered a complete second remote and receiver from Torqueboards (same place my motors and VESCs are from). That doesnât arrive until Saturday.
I did a little more experimentation with the real time data mode in the application PPM mapping settings. I noticed that the input does not jump to full input after a 1 second delay. The input jumps to 30% after a 1 second delay. So I set the input deadband to 35% and sure enough the wheels didnât turn when I shut the remote off. After a 1 second delay the input jumps to 30% and stays there. When I turn the remote back on the input falls back down to 0 +/-2%. Bizarre.
The remote has 3 modes. The input only goes to roughly half scale in mode 1 but full scale in mode 3. Doesnât matter which mode the remote is in when I shut it off. The input always goes to 30%.
You may have done this already. Try thisâŚMake sure your trim is at center. Then rebind it again?
Iâm using the Hoyt. I donât have any of the issues youâre having. I wonder whatâs different on yours vs mine. Too bad I get off around 1230am. Otherwise, Iâd let you use my spare remotes.
Bummer to hear I made my RX/TX so serial debugging was a bit easier but being the only tester had down sides (destroyed a board because of throttle runaway) but for an off the shelf or out of the box product it shouldnât be so difficult. Whatâs your idle value sorry know we saw this but I forgot is it 1.75ms it might be that the receivers are sending the correct idle (1.75) but the transmitters range makes idle too low.
Hereâs my log attempting to use VESC-Tool 1.13âŚ
9:12 AM 6/21/2019 attempt to update firmware on all devices using can bus, result is buffer erase timeout
9:16 AM 6/21/2019 attempt to update firmware on master, result is successfull
9:17 AM 6/21/2019 attempt to update firmware on slave, result is successfull
9:18 AM 6/21/2019 autoconnect > setup motors FOC
mini outrunner (~75g), Liion 10s 12ah, 18/36 100
run detection
9:22 AM 6/21/2019 it appears to have completed, checking values
9:24 AM 6/21/2019 Motor > General > General - BLDC, not FOC
Motor > General > Current - WTF! I dont even think this thing will ride with these valuesâŚ
9:27 AM 6/21/2019 Motor > BLDC > General - Sensor Mode is reported as Sensorless, incorrect
Motor > FOC > Hall Sensors - sensors values are correct, why no sensors detected?
9:30 AM 6/21/2019 this is unpredictable, not safe, going back to Ack firmware
I get equally crazy wizard results with x2 FlipSky FSESC 4.20 plus, x2 FocBox, x2 TB 4.12 VESCC and x2 VESC-X. There are others getting unusable results as well, quite a few. I wouldnât ride a board with those values, hell I wouldnât put Frank on a board with those values .
The detection is not the sole determiner of those values. It canât be because it doesnât know how big of a battery you have and how big of a motor you have. So can you tell me what motor size did you choose before starting your detection. Also the battery specification. If you entered the mass of motor to be less that itâs true mass class then it will restrict motor current to prevent overheating of the motors.
Otherwise I can do a complete detection from scratch and post my results here. Letâs see if I find anything crazy.
Locked to one remote
Integrated switch will that one last?
I like the cute phase wires, but iâm not sure if itâs good that the phase wire is hanging over that resistor or what ever it is
It could as soon as you need to select your battery type and size. To set the bat min and max values automatically to a crazy high value is not good at all. Yes you can change it manually, but thatâs not what the new wizard makes you to do. The new wizard makes new people to think your settings are all on point automatically after running through the setup routine.
Since the problems all start after the lost signal timeout, I am guessing they are in the setup or VESCs rather than the remote or receiver. Since it always jumps to 30% I am thinking firmware or setup problem rather than VESC hardware problem.
I tried doing uploading the firmware again and doing the setup without having it start with the standard settings. No difference. I went through every screen looking for anything set to 30%. The only thing I found was Motor Settings/FOC/Advanced/Observer Gain at Minimum Duty. Changing that to 15% on both VESCs did not change the input after shutting off the remote. It still jumped to 30% after the timeout.
If your values arenât close to 1.00 - 1.50 - 2.00 thatâs indicative if the issue. If your to value is 1.75 I would assume you have the review in a lower mode than full.
It doesnât ask or the motor kv, but in this instance they are maytech 6374 190kv motors. In other instances where I also got crazy detection results I used 6374 190kv and 6365 200kv motors The rest of the values are specified in the message above.
mini outrunner (~75g), Liion 10s 12ah, 18/36 100
Frank advised that almost all of the motors we use are mini outrunners around 75g, so thatâs what I used.
The real issue is that battery and motor amp values need to take gear ratio into account. All of these values are rarely going to be âgoodâ without using that ingo in the formula.