Noob question thread! 2020_Summer

[fessyfoo]

@ShutterShock

Have you tried opening the remote to see if maybe one of the potentiometer wires has a bad connection or anything like that?

@kook

I offered to fix a friend’s remote an snapped a pik for posterity

22ga wire and e6000 sloppily applied

see the full thread for ways that breaks:

VX1 remote potentiometer wire broke.

Today my board just didn’t work. Turns out the remote was stuck in full brake/reverse. when paired it was sending a full reverse signal to the vesc. when unpaired back to neutral. pairing a different remote worked as expected. opened it up and observed the red wire to the potentiometer had just failed. glad this didn’t fail this way while riding. it would have hard locked the brakes. and in current mode hard locked reverse. [image] [image] shakes my confidence in this remote th…