Supposedly yes. All the unity issues were FW related apart from dead Bluetooth modules and blown antispark switches. I didn’t like the 5.02 FW with my unity (experienced weirdness, explained in the 2 threads about the v5 FW) and reverted back to unity FW 23.46 as it’s been 100% stable for me.
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Thank you man.
That’s disappointing, Guess this means I should put an external antispark to be safe and should use a switch on the BMS ?
I wonder if this means I can’t use Push to Start.
Nah I’d just wait until/if it blows and just use a loopkey. I have 2 unities running for over 2 years cumulatively with no issues.
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Lol I hate those with a iring passion lol.
Is there a reason we see blown antispark a more in the builder world than seemingly in the prebuilt word or is it just more reported on here than out there ?
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I have always wondered about his too. Blown on/off switches are very rare in the prebuilt world. You don’t really hear about them. I wonder why
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Lower voltage in prebuilts.
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12s on my Kaly… hmmmmmmmmm
I totally feel ya… I made the switch to 5.02… tried the HFI craze… faaaked around with the settings and the awful app for a few weeks… I’m reverting back to 23.46 at this very moment…
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Is it due to lower voltages being handled by the ESC? A lot of the budget boards are running 12s2p using 40Ts and VCT6’s
The Kaly is not what I had in mind when using the word prebuilts.
In any case BMSs with e-switches are more reliable compared to the usual antispark switch.
I guess many prebuilts use discharge BMSs with e-switches.
The most popular higher end prebuilt right now is the Evolve and it uses 10S with a discharge BMS
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I myself had at least 5 Anti Spark Switches / Modules go just randomly.
I run 12S Configuration.
Since then I just don’t even bother - make a nice loopkey and be sure to have something reliable that also can handle loads of current without needing to worry if a MOSFET Decides to stay permanently open or closed (had both failure modes and the permanently open is no fun if you want to brake your board downhill)
I haven’t had any issues running 5.1 on my unity. Well mostly, I still don’t have motor temp lmfao. 5.2 is getting it worked out I believe.
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Just for clarities sake, I believe you mean V5.01 and 5.02 
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Tomato tomato. Hehe yeah sorry, was just about falling asleep while typing that. 
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Not sure if you’re talking VESC FW, but if you are there’s definitely a 5.1 and 5.2.
I’m not saying someone is right and someone is wrong… I’m just saying you’re both talking about 2 different FWs here…
Welcome to the VESCtm blackhole of versioning…
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Why does mine say 5.1 in the VESC Tool? Mind you this is for Stormcore.
BECAUSE YOUR’E ON UNITY
But I’m not.