Do you have brakes turned on?
Show a screenshot of your App Settings > PPM > General
I mean by using reverse throttle as a replacement for brake, it would take more power than the BEMF would supply meaning I āloseā the benefits of regen braking
Are you sure the brakes arenāt working? Regenerative brakes donāt work under a few km/h. Once you increase your roll speed they start working.
Generally, when youāre stumped during a troubleshooting situation, the easiest way Iāve found is to begin narrowing it down with known working parts.
If issues follow the motor, then itās the motor. If known working motors have the same issue then itās either the ESC or the firmware. If known working motors still donāt brake with the same ESC on rolled back firmware, then the ESC is the issue. So on and so forth.
This unfortunately does mean youād need access to known working parts.
Or you could go far back as you can to the configuration that last worked most, and go from there.
yes, twice now have I bolted things back together and rode with no brakes, didnāt want to go too fast though because, well, no brakes.
How fast?
Was it at least as fast as a sprint?
Show your Motor Settings > General > Current screen
the hall sensor issue follows the motor, I know that, I know thereās still some way to get around that until I buy a new motor
the braking issue is exhibited on both motors, also after a side swap.
this VESC has always been on 5.2, the braking issue only happened once I loaded the file from the MakerX website onto here. Iāve since updated to 5.3 via @jaykup custom .bin
Iām not a board shop, sorry. I also donāt have infinite money to just buy 2-4 of everything
have done this about 20 times now. Iām going nuts.
Have you run VESC Tool 3.00, loaded stock 5.2, bootloader first, and then set up everything again?
Then donāt volunteer to beta test firmware.
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yes that was me doing it the first 8 times.
Iām sorry? how is this relevant?
Iām confused. You said you got it from Maker-X. Does the regular install from VESC-project also not work?
what do you mean? VESCtool is from vesc-project and the FW file is from MakerX
Itās relevant to your attitude. Youāre quick to get snappy about a situation you walked into. Which makes you think less clearly about backtracking out of your current predicament.
Resentment and sass donāt fix boards.
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Have you loaded the FW thatās included with the official download of VESC Tool 3.00?
if youāre not helping youāre hindering.
donāt make this a personal attack.
On the DV6 Pro they used different shunt resistors and increased the current limit. They didnāt submit those changes to the VESC-Project so it doesnāt show up as a firmware option in the VESC tool. They offer a .bin file on their website, and recently changed the link to 5.3, but when downloaded itās actually 5.2 so they made a mistake. Without somene pulling the old firmware with an ST-LINK or MakerX releasing it, I donāt think we can revert.
I also donāt think this is a firmware problem, with any version. I think itās a configuration/connection issue as I think his board worked in the past with this ESC
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yes the board worked perfectly fine until a few days ago.