Hey y’all, just wanted to post a PSA/review here:
I have been experiencing what I thought were VESC issues on my build for several weeks now, and have been trying to debug what was going on, and the symptoms made no sense. I purchased the @Avx MK2 gear drive with the new open can motors from @Haggyboard.Timo and built the whole drivetrain (super easy, nice kit!). When I went to configure my VESCs, I would get no problems at all configuring both motors as single drive, but as soon as I did anything that ran both motors at once, everything would go wrong.
Over in the FW4.1 thread, @DerelictRobot detailed the issues we were seeing, and what he and I had done to try to debug in this post:
We suspected that it was a CAN issue of some sort, but finally I figured it out, detailed here:
Turned out, two of the motor bolts that came with my kit (I cant remember if they were with the motors or the gear drives) were protruding too far into the motor can and shorting against the stator. I removed the bolts, ground them down a bit, and put them back in, and now things seem to be working (though I will be keeping an eye on it).
Just wanted to point this out in case anyone else experiences anything similar with the gear drive kit or these motors!