do you need to disconnect hall sensors with ass?
Ass?
advanced sensorless startup
Seems like you need temp sensors, but the hall sensors don’t need to be working. But iirc the temp sensor connectors will be on the same one as your hall sensors, so I think they will need to be connected.
Unplug all sensor wires from the JST apart from temp and then connect it to the vesc.
Anyone know the pole count in loaded x unlimited / neo hubs?
Edit: from photos looks like 14
When you guys slap a heatsink onto an esc like the xenith, do you use thermal compound like on pcs or like a thermal pad? Or is it more optional and not really affect performance?
for flat surfaces thermal paste otherwise pads, there needs to be contact for heat transfer
The proper way is not just bolt up and done?
You can bolt them up and be done or you can use a tad of thermal paste which will perform a little better, but just the dry heatsink will be far, far better than the naked ESC.
Nothing<<thermal pad<<thermal paste. But given the generally large contact area and generally low thermal load (a few tens of watts at most, usually), even straight metal-to-metal is usually more than adequate, as long as both surfaces are moderately flat. It’s not anywhere near as critical as a computer heatsink, where you have tens or hundreds of watts in an area of ~0.5 square inches.
do I need to charge my lipos before setting up vesc? they are at 30% from shipping. also when charging I wouldn’t need my loop key in?
No
Under typical bypass wiring, you do not need your loopkey in while charging. Your loopkey breaks the circuit to the load (esc + motors). The charge port is wired to the battery (with fuse), through the BMS.
I have actually never heard of thermal paste, thanks for the explanation. Just when I thought I was getting out of the noob label lol! Still lots to learn.
You don’t need to charge them to set up VESC, but I’d recommend charging them to at least storage voltage before doing anything further with them. IDK about your batteries but mine were plastered with warning stickers to bring them up to storage after opening as soon as possible.
yes mine were too, I heard they would keep as long as I didn’t use them though. after setup ill charge them fully
Stupid questions is there a way to disable the switch on my Zenith in Vesc Tool as I have an anti-spark with a switch already for power? or do I have to bridge mom pins in hardware?
Also another dumb question but does Zenith with built in ble work with windows? I can connect from my iphone but can’t find ble using windows however it works via usb.
Vesc tool does my head in…so much confusion.