Hello, I posted here a couple weeks ago about a problem I was dealing with regard my eskate build and I ended up contacting the company and they sent me a new vesc. Anyway, just today I was setting everything up and after I plugged in the Bluetooth module and started to try and use the remote the motors started to make some questionable noises. Here is a video of what is going on
Motor noises
also here is my setup,
Flipsky Sensored Brushless DC Motor 6368 170KV 2700W
FLIPSKY Mini FSESC6.7 PRO 70A
Two 5s 3300 mah 30c batteries connected in series
Unrelated to your problem but you have installed your truck backwards.
Related to your problem:
What exactly did you set up. Guide us through the steps. Did you do motor detection? What firmware? Does it do those noises when you spin the motor by hand? Did you try running it sensorless? Etc etc
Do you know how to check if your vesc threw faults? (Red led)
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I knew I wasn’t the only person who saw that
Yes I ran motor detection and everything went fine with that
the settings I got were:
VESC ID: 26
Motor Current: 62.82
Motor R 15.2 mohms
Motor L: 8.2 uH
Motor flux linkage 4.04 mWB
Temp comp: false
Sensors: Hall sensors:
I am using the firmware 5.2 that came with the vesc since the website says not to update it,
The motors do not make this noise when I spin it by hand and I have not tried to run it sensorless yet.
I am using the UART port for the module and didn’t have that plugged in when I did the detection since I heard that It could cause problems so after I ran detection I unplugged eveything and plugged in the module and soldered the extra wire to the + side of the battery on the vesc, btw I made sure to be very careful when soldering plus Ive been soldering for about a year now so I have a decent amount of experience in it. After this plugged everything back in and turned it on and at first it wasn’t working at all but I figured that might be due to not having the motor wires in the same places as when I ran detection so I switch a couple of them and I got to the point as shown in the video but now I wonder if they are still not in the same slots as when I did the connection and if that is causing the problem.
I have been wondering if I should redo the motor detection with the phase wires plugged in as they are and see if that fixes anything but idk if I should do it with the uart port plugged in and idk if having the wire from the bluetooth module soldered in would affect anything and I would rather desolder the extra wire cause I really don’t want to keep messing with the + terminal on the vesc
Also thanks for pointing out that my trucks are backwards didn’t realize that lol
Also something I should add the Bluetooth module seems to be acting weird as if I leave it plugged into the vesc then unplug the batteries back , it will not turn on when plug the batteries in and turn everything on unless unplug the module then plug it back in
Please do.
Are you maybe talking about the remote receiver?
(Flipsky remote)
I’m not aware of any Bluetooth modules that need the extra wire soldered. When in doubt upload pics of it.
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Yeah I meant remote receiver its the flipsky vx1 remote and it came with a remote receiver. In the instructions I was told that in the connector there is a wire that needs to be soldered to the + terminal so that the remote can show the charge of the batteries.
here is the link to it
Remote
Yeah, just wanted to make sure we’re talking about the same thing. Remotes don’t use Bluetooth, that’s why i was asking if you perhaps mean the remote receiver and not the Bluetooth module (used for telemetry or wireless programming)
OK thank you for the clarification I was not aware of that
Also I just re ren the motor detection and everything seems to be working fine I think my dumbass just plugged in the phase wires wrong.
Thank you for your help