BOUNDMOTOR: Offer for Esk8.news

[BillGordon]

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:

Esk8Supply Dual 6.1 Vesc Variant* Review A deeper Dive

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.)

[Updated Review] Esk8Supply Dual VESC6.1 Based Controller

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…

My experience with the esk8 supply dual vesc based esc

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:

Precompiled VESC Tool Archive

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…

[Excess]

I have that esc.
I had issues when I tried updating vesc firmware.
Everything worked when I downgraded to vesc firmware 3.65 (vesc tool 1.28 I think)

When I went to downgrade I had to reflash the bootloader through vesc tool to get it to successfully load the firmware. As far as I can tell there’s no port on this esc to recover it using an st-link, so proceed with caution.

[fnfoged]

So I’m afraid i just bricked one side of this ESC. As i was waiting my 10 seconds for the upload to be done the ESC timed out and turned itself off. Now it wont recognize it when i plug it in. Is there anything I can do at this point or do I just have a brand new paper weight?

[DavidF]

I have that ESC too, It works like a charm and I’ll never ever try to update anything with this one. Too scared to break anything…
Good luck mate

[Scepterr]

any schematics available for those?

there are several test points on PCB, would be worth checking if they aren’t for SWD

[Excess]

I haven’t seen any schematics.

Maybe @BOUNDMOTOR has them?

[Scepterr]

it would be possible to bring out a swd port from the stm if the test points arent relevant

[BillGordon]

@fnfoged

As i was waiting my 10 seconds for the upload to be done the ESC timed out and turned itself off.

Any light sequence first?

[fnfoged]

No lights on the one side.

[BOUNDMOTOR]

[BOUNDMOTOR]

Like @DavidF said, the receiver is integrated, we are working on another version.

[Scepterr]

which firmware version would you recommend?

[BOUNDMOTOR]

This version only supports V3.65 firmware. If you upgrade to the new firmware, the ride mode switching function and direction switching will be lost.

[ducktaperules]

Interesting. I updated but assumed the mode switching never worked and I just set the control mode to have reverse.

What causes these to stop worrking? Are they done over UART?

[BOUNDMOTOR]

@ducktaperules

Are they done over UART?

Correct.

[ducktaperules]

Hmmm. Do you know if the UART is broken out somewhere? It’s there a way to patch into it?

[BOUNDMOTOR]

I don’t quite understand the coding stuff. The VESC team adds new content to other places rather than at the end, so it is difficult to patch.

[BillGordon]

Let’s move all of this discussion over here:

Please help me in choosing the right battery

Looking to figure out specs and get a custom battery built.

[cpl-america]

Hey i have this vesc, and for some reason i can’t get as much torque or speed as my previous vesc, with the same hubs and battery. There is a hill bh mh house i used to zoom up. But this vesc has nade the same board struggle. Any ideas as to why.

Also, i can’t get it to stop starting in reverse.