Yep, this was exactly the cause of my coming unstuck with the TC.
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100% this. Only broken a gear when doing this or after a crash.
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I was slowing down for a stop today and felt something weird and it looks like my motor can has slightly started to back off of the housing (? I don’t know what the area with the vents is called) I have taken apart motors before but when they usually snap into place quite violently so I don’t know how this is sitting like this just a millimeter or so off. I can’t push it back in by hand but I rode home and nothing felt weird even under high load, is this fine to stay like this or should I take apart the drivetrain and try to get this back to flush?
Seems like it might be missing shim/s between the circlip and bearing
If you are running a helical gear drive, it’s possible that axial loads have destroyed shims that may have once existed there.
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It depends if the axle has pulled out of the can, or if the axle has pulled out of the motor. Depends what slipped.
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Related, but maybe or maybe not your issue. I’ve never personally seen this happen on that model of motor. But lots on other, older motors.
i’ve never seen a reacher motor can come off the shaft, but from what I have heard, if it does, it’s fucked.
I’ve seen numerous shims minced by helical drives, that’s just my best guess as to what happened
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I had like 1000 miles on a set of belts haha. D&D is a-ok.
If anyone is popping these belts in a short time period, chances are you have sharp/destroyed pullies
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This is how it starts…
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One of my 2 radium reacher motors is not showing sensors on detection. I’ve swapped it between the two ports on my stormcore 60d+ and nothing has changed. What’s the next troubleshooting step?
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Do motors need to be disconnected from the wheels while doing motor detection? Ie will the extra inertia and friction potentially mess things up?
I don’t know if it messes things up, but have always read you should do detection with nothing attached to the motor.
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It’s fine with and without stuff attached.
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No.
It doesn’t matter at all, according to experiments I’ve done.
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His are second most recent batch which have fairly good sensors.
@Cyanoacrylate did you say you swapped the motors around and still the same side of the stormcore is showing sensorless? I have seen people experience sensor detection issues on stormcore and the new D series makerx controllers. What firmware are you on?
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Yeah I did, Ill try it again tho. I’m using the build of vesc tool that you get directly from the vesc tool website. apparently it’s experimental or something. Initially I flashed the firmware to the default option vesc tool gave me. upon inspection it claimed it was v6.0, not sure what that meant. then i went to the archive tab if the firmware section and installed fw 5.03, which is what I’ve heard people say should work. Vesc tool really didn’t like that, and would become unresponsive for 5 seconds before disconnecting and then reconnecting to the controller whenever i interacted with some parts of the GUI until i flashed it back to whatever the “default” firmware is for this version of the tool. Iirc vesc tool also told me that the version of firmware i was using was outdated and was not compatible with that version of vesc tool
the odd part is i had this controller working with these motors a few weeks ago, so idk what changed. i think I did slightly strain the sensor cable while trying to access something in my enclosure, could that have damaged it?
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Hang on so the same side of the stormcore showed as sensorless, or the same motor (which would have been opposite side of the stormcore) was sensorless after you swapped the plugs around?
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im checking it again rn. I think i may have had an weird beta version or something of vesc tool, so lets see if getting the new one does anything.
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