In the Evening I spent some time in the garage.
The goal last night was to get the cabling resolved.
The first step was to get the box really set on there and I used a ton of butyl tape on the bottom of the box to get it to sit.
Drilling through the box and the deck for the cable holes is another task that makes me really nervous but I got it done and it’s not perfect and I did it somewhere different than the Gravel Flux which turned out to be less than ideal but we’re making it all work
So I got to the point where I was able to hook everything up and run motor detection to see if everything still worked which is yet another one of those moments that can be nerve-racking.
Fortunately the Vesc Gods were on my side and everything is coming up censored.
Up until this point I had not put the charge port in the box yet, That’s less than ideal… Ishould have done it way earlier when it was loose but I drilled the hole and soldered the wires on. so moving on!!!
Next up is just all the taping on the bottom.
I decided to leave these XT60s here on the bottom because I didn’t want to do direct soldering, or move the XT60s
I just didn’t want to mess with it now I’m going to have to deal with it when I try to do the ABS plate.
We got the bottom all taped up with a massive amounts of gorilla tape.
I’m just using butyl tape to try to seal all of the holes into the enclosure.
And just like I did with the Gravel Flux I’m using Legos around the unity for support to put the battery on top.
It was just happenstance that the Z-mote I have for this board happens to be yellow and obviously I could not be more thrilled.
I really enjoy the pops of color
It’s lives.
So I have to do the bottom ABS plate which is a whole thing.
And I have to do a little bit of cleanup with the battery and shrink wrap and put some foam in there but for the most part I’m all set.