Can this hopefully be fixed by adding some decoupling capacitors?
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If the 5v is patchy on vescs, wouldn’t that also affect the PPM/PWM 5v terminal? Meaning we would get issues from PPM/PWM users?
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Hehe, not relevant. Let me know if you need a replacement cable. 
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There’s already a 100 uF capacitor. I actually wanted to test with bigger ones. I purchased some beefy 22 mF capacitors but haven’t had time to test them yet.
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I’m re-doing the poll since I didn’t make the previous one public and it’s quite important to have the list of people who experienced some issues. Sorry about this.
How reliably has your DAVEGA X been working:
- I have done more than 100 km and had no issues.
- I experienced restarts, freezing, or white screen.
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Thats just silly. 
True. That’s a good point. Maybe the difference in power consumption is a factor. DAVEGA takes about ~100 mA at 5V with WiFi disabled and ~150 mA with WiFi enabled. I don’t know how much a typical PPM receiver takes but I assume it’s less.
This could be due to to the receivers having a lower minimum input voltage requirement. Depending on the ESP32 breakout board used, the 3v3 LDO can require 1v-1.1v drop, so your minimum input voltage required before unexpected things start happening would be around 4.3v-4.4v. If the 5v supply from the ESC is regulating to slightly under 5v then you are left with a small window for voltage drop over the cable and power sags due to current demanded by the motors.
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Print the spacer I made and route the cable underneath the board.
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Thank you so much. I slice it tomorrow and print it with PLA.
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No problem! I had that same problem and that’s what I ended up doing
You will need longer screws however.
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“Only” 20 kg of Prusament PLA 
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haha wait where did I put only 20kg? 
I have mine routed forward but if you have a top box style, you should be able to just reverse it and it should work.
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I also created another one but with flashlight mounts on the side. You’ll probably have to modify it slightly to fit your specific flashlight.
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I go for a full light system. Not a Fleshlight in front of my board. 
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Fully agree! I have bar lights in the work but this was a quick and dirty solution that I thought I’d share
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How does that work? How is the mount attached to the spacer?
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The light mounts are overlapped a little into the spacer. Printed at 100% infill, it should be strong enough to hold. That being said, I think I messed up on the design trying to make it stronger. I overlapped the mounts but that’ll get in the way of davega. I need to fix and reprint now.
Okay the fix is in but I haven’t reprinted and tested yet. Should be okay though