Try detuneing your amps by like 10 or so for motor. Or flipping back to 5.2.(currently what I’m running in one board)
Most of the community agrees 5.3 is not very solid with what changes happened.
To help me diagnose whether my remote not displaying info is related to the esc or the remote is it possible to connect a Wowgo 3 remote receiver to a Stormcore esc and see if it displays speed? Or vice versa, pair my VX2 with a wowgo 3?
Thanks
no, and no
not trying to be rude, but its actually no for both questions 
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I suspected that might be the answer but running out of ideas! I have emailed Lacroix support in the hope that they might know a way I can diagnose the issue through vesc tool. Otherwise I might take a punt on the cheapest option (replace remote receiver)
This won’t help if the remote is the problem.
there are many issue surrounding the vx2 and vesc, and its always comes down to a few problems:
- rx / tx in wrong order
- vesc control mode is set wrong
- setting in remote menu is not set correctly
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yes, have tried all three. Unfortunately this isn’t one of the normal issues. The remote is actually operating and controlling the board fine. It’s just not displaying the speed, kms, amps and battery level of the board. Thanks though, appreciate any input at this stage 
have you contacted flipsky?
also does yours look like this rn?
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where r u located? i can send u a working vx2 internals if u want (can’t send battery, so i have to strip it
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that was the connector, however have now switched to a JST PH-4 pin to connect to the UART3 on the Stormcore. Maybe now i’m running through that I’ll try switching the RX/TX one more time but when I did that with the connector pictured I just lost control of the esc completely
I’m in New Zealand (probably the other side of the world for you!). I haven’t opened up the remote. Is it easy to do and check internals without springs jumping out at your etc?
there is only one spring in the remote, which holds the wheels in the middle position. it shouldn’t fly out when u open it, but its always good to use ur hand to hold it when u r prying it open once u remove all the screws.
mind u, there is a screw under the flipsky sticker on the side
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thanks, any tips for noob on what I should be looking for?
for taking apart the remote? have a spare remote on hand 
but honestly if u can’t get the remote working, taking it apart won’t hurt anything, except maybe if flipsky ask u to return it
I feel like I’m getting some weird speed measurements in VESC telemetry, it likes to say I’m traveling over 30mph at some points in time, but GPS correlates it closer to 24mph and plus I don’t think my board is even capable of doing 30. I thought it could be wheel diameter or gear ratio, but those look correct, and my odometer differs from GPS by less than 5%, and tend to be undercounts rather than over. What might cause higher than average instantaneous speed readings, but not overall distance?
I would trust the speedo reading over GPS. GPS is screwed up by changes in elevation, patchy reception etc. Given you can probably top your top speed going downhill and the gps doesn’t allow for the drop in elevation when calculating distance travelled it would definitely give you a lower speed (it’s under calculating the actual distance travelled).
Are you sure that those points you’re seeing are while you’re actively riding?
Yep, it’s the real time output on my phone dashboard thing. Based on the esk8 calc I should only max out at 23mph, maybe a little more due to voltage. However being 40-50% off feels unlikely, unless there’s so little load from the gear ratio that the loaded speed closely matches unloaded.
Hm that is really weird, I’ve never seen my own setups be that far off
GPS does include elevation actually, it gets shown in my elevation charts. It’s a moot point on this particular case though, since it was on a level parking lot surrounded by open fields for at least 50 yards in any direction.