That’s a long foking shaft.
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September 17th
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This board is so close I literally can’t stop thinking about it. Hopefully I can finish it before I go back home for break 
I conformally coated the vescs today, I’ll be using these vesc 6.4s until the neoboxes arrive (granted they don’t arrive before the board)
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Any tips on coating them? What have you used?
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This is what I use, reccomended by @b264
MG Chemicals 419D Premium Acrylic Conformal Coating, 55 mL Bottle, IPC 830, UL 94V-0 (File # E203094) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B8RY7M6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apap_AVCnHgxmhsGOn
I reccomend you find one with a brush on the inside of the cap so you don’t have to be like me:
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Thanks, what worries me more is getting into the connectors and ruining them
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I’m honestly really sloppy with it, but I (think I ) know what to steer clear of.
First, I like cutting little masking tape squares to cover the fets with
Secondly I put a USB plug into the port, pretty much to use it as sacrifice incase any coating enters the plug. You just want to keep it off the pins.
Third is go ham with it. I like doing 2 ‘thick’/generous coatings, seems to cover everything enough.
While I’m on the topic: it bothers me how close pos and neg are on a vesc, between those two capacitors. It seems like such an easy way to short them out. I like to go especially heavy in that area.
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Really good tips, specially the usb one
The fets it’s a good call to cover them at least most of the center
Did you pay any attention to the switch that toggles 3.3 and 5 V for the sensors?
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Nope 
If it’s actually important, conformal coating can be removed, and it can be fixed:
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It’s actually convenient that you can solder through conformal coating, and it’s designed for that. Just don’t accidentally get it inside a USB connector or on JST pins
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Fucker snapped them up from right under the Aussies’ noses. Good catch!
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Have you ever applied to a battery pack? I mean directly on the positive and negative of the cells? I was thinking in doing that as a additional protection
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Not on the cells directly, but on the packaging and shrinkwrap and BMS and all that, yes, and I’m sure some probably got on the cells but dunno
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Easily the nicest Vanguard ever.
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Thank you! I would like to think so too 
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Thank you Mr. West 
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Remind me to send you a pic of my Kanye underwear
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I might need some for myself 
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I guess some actually do exist
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