Are there any significant downsides to top-mounting the VESC in the rear in its own enclosure rather than having it in the battery enclosure underneath?
Only that it might be in your way if youāre trying to stand over the trucks/tail/wherever you put it on the deck. Take note if it will require longer battery wires, you may need to up the size.
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Thanks, I will be using an LY Evo so chances are that I wonāt be trying to stand there anyways.
The planned battery is 12s4p so 80A at most, while I havenāt measure the distance, I assume AWG10 or 12 should be enough from the BMS to the ESC.
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Did you get them like that? I got a bunch that are in single terminals that I just unpin for now. If they came unpinned that would be delightful
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Yupā¦ lotta kwad suppliers supply kits with unpinned wires and misc. connectors
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Kinda dumb question but it seems most places I read the Samsung 18650 30Q battery has a continuous discharge of 15A. Yet in most packs they seem to have it rated at 20A. Is this a fine over estimation to make? For example a 12s4p everywhere seems to have the max cont discharge at 80A but shouldnāt it actually be 60A? Thanks in advance.
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Samsung underestimated the max continuous discharge. Tests have shown that it can handle 20A well.
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Thanks a lot. That makes sense from both sides.
Thats definitely the way. I used the pins closest to the centre of the board but i donāt think it matters
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here is just one I useā¦
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Thats awesome. Thank you. Those dupont crimps are universal for all jst connectors Iāve seen.
The other size on the crimp tool always scares me.
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Could anyone confirm the bearing size for 10mm shaft matech motors?
Is it 10x22x6?
The weird part is I have used this bearing in my 8mm shaft maytech motors.
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No man that only works with the complete
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I danāt confirm the bearing size, but I can tell you that many motor suppliers use a shaft that is 10mm through the motorās guts, and just grind/turn it down to 8mm for the output. That way 8mm shaft and 10mm shaft motors are 100% identical internally except for the stepped-down output shaft - Saves them a lot of money by eliminating internal differences.
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Hey guys. Recently replaced a focbox in my r2. After replacing it everything worked. However, I was going to adjust some settings and was prompted to update the firmware on my vescs in the FOC tool and without thinking downloaded the unity firmware. The board no longer works and I am wondering if there is a way I can remove the firmware and replace it with the correct firmware?
Awesome, thanks!
Any idea where I can get just one jst connector for the connection? Canāt really justify getting a crimping kit just for one connectorā¦ 
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Hobbyking? 
Iāve had success with Amazon, but itās usually a handfull (5, 10, etc) not just one. Still pretty cheap, and they can be useful in other things too though, so itās not a complete waste.
You can also get pre-crimped wires and empty housings to build up your own connectors from Mouser or Digikey, if Amazon doesnāt have the specific ones you need.
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in the unity UI setup, do i enter split values for each side , or total ? sorry for the dumb question
edit: aaaand allready messed something up 
clicked read current config to see the initial values, now i get red blinking and the unity shuts down after a few momentsā¦ my luck
what to do now? it even powers off while on usb 
Total for battery, individual for motors.
Havenāt seen a unity error like that. Iād ask @deodand as he is the master of all things unity.
I donāt think it comes pre programmed with values, you get those from your motor test. Did you run the test first?
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