How to: Ackmaniac ESC Tool

mmaner · October 26, 2019, 2:09am

Try 3.103. See if that resolved the issue. If not, prolly just have to use the master vesc.

Customesk8 · November 26, 2019, 3:39am

My mini wont let me control via trigger its being controlled by the wheel on the side how do you change this?

mmaner · November 26, 2019, 3:47am

Move the PPM cable to channel 3.

Customesk8 · November 26, 2019, 3:51am

thanks, i tried it didnt work might need to reset vesc?

does it need to paired again or should just be able to switch to 3 and it work?

BillGordon · November 26, 2019, 6:51am

Also, make sure the black wire is closest to the outside of the receiver.

Customesk8 · November 26, 2019, 6:51am

thanks it worked on port 2 but not 3 not sure why but someone else had suggested 2

kook · January 8, 2020, 4:46am

has anyone successfully hooked up a Unity to @ack? (by bluetooth)

I have 2 Unities, and all I really wish is telemetry, both hook-up (connect) but I cannot receive telemetry from either…

am I chasing a wild goose?

BigZwatt · January 25, 2020, 3:21am

@Sn4Pz @mmaner thanks for this running ack on 4.12s now

BigZwatt · January 26, 2020, 8:58am

Alright so initial ride total of 15 miles . nice job OP.
My only gripe. The hm10 module dropped connectionand wouldn’t reconnect aboutbhalf way through so I was skating blind. I made it back to my car with only 35v left. Got home popped ooen the enclosure connected the vesc to my pc and re did the BT Uart rewrite . the app started working again. Turned it off after I disconnected put the enclosure back together. Now it’s back to showing zero data. My enclosulre is C.F. but it worked flr a good 4 hours today without issue

mmaner · January 26, 2020, 3:00pm

Did you hot glue the connector? It sounds more like a module issue than a software issue, hard to tell though.

BigZwatt · January 26, 2020, 5:57pm

The modules soldered to the vesc

mmaner · January 26, 2020, 6:44pm

Oh wow, ok. I dont know, I’ve never had that issue. I would start by putting a connector in the vesc so you can try a different module. What kind of VESC is it?

BigZwatt · January 26, 2020, 6:45pm

It says Vedder.se 4.12 on it. Not sure of the brand . I think maytech.

Harrisonwms1 · January 26, 2020, 9:16pm

@mmaner what version of ack tool should people use?

mmaner · January 26, 2020, 9:38pm

I use 3.103 for most everything.

Harrisonwms1 · January 29, 2020, 12:11am

Who “created” this software? @mmaner

pookybear · January 29, 2020, 12:23am

Nico Ackerman

github.com

Ackmaniac/vesc_tool/blob/master/README.md

ESC tool
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This is a GUI written using the Qt toolkit to configure ESC motor controllers.

This is based on Benjamin Vedders work (https://github.com/vedderb/vesc_tool).

Happy further forking and using. Thanks Benjamin for your work.  

This is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
The software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses

deucesdown · January 29, 2020, 6:20am

Technically bvedder, with some small changes by other including ack.

BigZwatt · January 29, 2020, 6:46am

Im having an issue my vesc are showing my voltage as 40.6 at a full charge on 10s . I thoight my bms wasnt working and on of my.p groups was out of balance so I pulled everything apart. Got mt multimeter and checked every p group. After the msth was finished everything checked out so I charged to 40.8v on the vesc and checked again my pack is at 42.0v anyone else have this issue or know of a way to fix it. Its tripping my cut off early and decreasing my range

pookybear · January 29, 2020, 7:16am

I assume you chose 10s then hit apply when you were initially setting up your vesc right?

What Vesc are you using? Trampa?