i was thinking what kind of pus- needs amps, guess i need more sleep
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Edit: scratch that. I realized i did not understand split angles / wedging
More on topic - what material did you go with on your wedges?
PLA+ seems to be just fine, printed at 80% infill, I think I did 7 walls
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I do petg 50% infill and 7-9 walls
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Should I turn it on and test it?? Im nervous 
Anything I should mind before turning it on? Connect the usb from the esc to the pc maybe? Could I set the esc up without powering the whole system? Or should I just connect power and set up everything?
(too excited!!)
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double and triple check that you are using the correct polarity.!!
Your whole setup looks very sketchy.
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thank you
and yes THANK YOU I totally overlooked that I soldererd the wrong polarity to the xt60!
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on genuine amass xt60, there are indictor of which side is positive and negative.
i was way too fucused on soldering the cables because I had to solder with two irons on one cable (the irons are weak but it worked surprisingly well!) The xt60 came in the cable pack included with the esc I did not think about its genuinity
But the rest is okay for just testing the vesc and remote/receiver?
I dont plan to run the motor on 100% power (not even 50% i think)
Would this setup be okay to just test if the motor and esc are working? 
hahahaha lmao, the moment you put the bullets back together 
priceless
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Keep in mind that if you ever brake with this setup the energy will have nowhere to go and blow up your psu.
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the vesc tool had a popup that the firmware is outdated. A tutorial said that I should double check that my hardware version is compatible with the software version…
I have a Go-FOC SV6 (60V 120A) and the tool only shows one hardware version “60” and the default.bin under firmware I am a bit confused as I didnt find a quick answer for the hardware version on their website and the vesc came without documentations 
Are the documentations for the open source vesc the ones that are meant for every vesc?
the message says that your vesc firmware is outdated but still compatible. (since the latest is 5.3 and you have 5.2)
ignore that message, the tool is backwards compatible.
5.2 is your Vesc Firmware - HW: 60 is the hardware revision aka Vesc 6 based.
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I have set up the motor 2 times now, first one made scary rumble noises (big hub motor) and they had different result parameters… second one had fewer parameters with “0” in them so i guess its more correct
Im following this tutorial VESC® Tool 2020 Tutorial - How to Program Vesc for DIY Electric Skateboards - YouTube
And I have a few tabs missing or in other places :l
Now I tried the Detect page again and I cannot get the “Lq-Ld” green it only reads 0,00 µH
Any Idea how to get that Parameter correctly detected?
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Make sure you are selecting the correct size motor when doing the motor wizard.
If you want to to do it manually, click on the button circled in green
If it won’t detect, adjust the current value (up) circled in red and try again.
Also make sure your battery voltage cut-offs are correct. This is usually set automatically when you select the battery series count (12s for example).
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Thanks I am a bit scared to increase anything with current with this test setup as I saw it spike up to several hundred watts on the psu readout when doing this short, loud noisesweep 
I saw the motor move, everything seems to work so I will continue the real built and battery pack so I can do the setup of the whole system for real (with the real battery then)
The weirder thing right now is that I cannot get any of the remotes to bind to any of my receivers (i tested two of each as I thought one my have been doa) The manual just inclued the following page:
Another seller (some ali-seller) had additional pictures of the pinout/input and information about the channels (1-steering 2-throttle 3-empty 4-bind)
I connected the vesc 3-pin to channel 2 and it flashes slowly when turned on
with the binding loop in channel 4, the receiver starts flashing faster upon turning it on.
Now I have turned on the remote and pressed the bind button in multiple “tapping-patterns” and also held it pressed for 10 seconds and also tried ~60 seconds as nothing had happened :I
Anyone got an Idea what I have been doing wrong? Videos showed that it just connects after a few seconds of pressing the bind button… are my remotes maybe broken?
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I don’t think you told us yet what remote you are using.
If it’s the mini follow this
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I dont know how I overlooked that thread…
Now I searched through the thread if anyone had the problem of the remote not doing anything and for everyone it just… seems to work and trigger the motor right after binding?
The video in the thread also shows that. Do I need to set up anything in the vesctool first? The remote is bound and all lights are solid