Thanks. Wanted to be sure. Here’s the issue with this unit: It’s not a true vesc and not that popular, so with so little user feedback, hard to say what issues would come from updating to newer vesc tool firmware.
Here are some reviews of this unit sold here through esk8suppluy:
Hello everyone a couple weeks ago @Esk8supply kindly set me a dual vesc variant 6.1 based controller. I hate not having hard comparative data but so i decided to wait on my review until you could objectively compare this to at least one other vesc based esc. Luckily I was able to test it on the bench vs both a MakerX Mini Foc Plus (6.0 variant) and a Esk8.de 4.12 variant (German Focbox)
There’s been quite a few first impressions already posted by other reviewers but mine do differ slightly so i…
(The following reviewer updated with vesc tool 1.25.)
A little while back, Nathan over at @Esk8supply offered a special deal on his dual VESC6.1 based controller with the requirement that it be reviewed. I’m a fucking noob when it comes to building when compared to all y’all, but that’s why I think I’m pretty much perfect for this. Because I’m a fucking noob.
Anyways, let’s get right to it. I immediately responded to that offer and I received the controller pretty quickly.
Not that it really matters, but packaging is a little lack luster when you…
UPDATE!
I have put around 30-45 miles on this vesc and no issues thus far.
Some of pros and cons are listed throughout this thread but I will try to summarize them here.
Pros-
Easy install as everything is intigrated (great for beginners and minimizes wire clutter)
Really nice feeling remote that I’ve experienced zero disconnects with.
Good battery life on the remote.
Nice heatsink.
Build quality looks great.
Great customer support from @Esk8supply .(I had a issue with one of the lights…
You can find most versions of vesc tool and ackmaniac here:
I love what @rpasichnyk is doing. This is the correct way of handling the release. Not only you have all the binaries at one place but they are also associated with revision tags and thus it’s easy to see the code changes that relate to the released version. Maybe just add the changelog entries to each release and it would be perfect.
It would be great if someone copied this pattern for Ackmaniac’s Tool and Unity Tool. Ideally this would be done by the main repository owners (Vedder, Ackmaniac…
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