yikes
I fucking LOVE hot glue. Black hot glue from Daiso is the bomb.
that’s why it was so difficult to uncouple…
noted…
I’ll procure the appropriate solvent before our next tryst…
Ah… crapple only 
Normally 14 poles.
That’s for outrunners. Hubs are mostly 28 I think?
So I have this hole in my enclosure that my motor wires go into. I don’t care about waterproofing right now, so is it okay that there is an exposed area? I was thinking it would help with airflow but I’m not sure
This is likely what caused your motor cracks. You want to use 4 per motor to spread out the force.
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Yup no problem with it really for electronics except for water damage to look out for. Personally think more important to conformal coat electronics if you want to waterproof things than to absolutely have an air/water tight seal. I printed two versions of my electronics enclosure one with air flow gaps for summer to keep the esc from thermal throttling and one more sealed one for riding in crappier weather.
Putting some kind of mesh or cover over the motor if it has openings or around the belt drive can help to avoid any rocks getting in there too if riding in gravel area or otherwise expect that might be a problem but pretty rare for me to get anything in there just cruising paved roads.
Okay, I’m using a tb 6355 motor so those have any opening and my belt is completely out exposed. I live in california so there is a lot of dirt and pebbles and I already have everything covered in dirt lol, si hopefully it will be ok
If you are using the hall sensors, they are not waterproof!
Unless it’s a new TB6355 then they might be, those look like they’ve taken the effort to seal them up pretty well. A TB6355 from last year or any other year, and any other brand 6355, your sensors are not going to be waterproof.
I’m using sensorless as of right now since I forgot to get an adapter. I’m just worried about dirt and junk ruining the components or motor
From what I’ve read the Ackmaniac tool is based off the (Vedder) VESC tool; what are the differences and how should I go about choosing which to use?
ACK is a forked version of the VESC Tool… pretty much a reliable tried and true version of the firmware, and a great place to start your journey into VESC firmware, and is pretty much not going to be updated or supported anymore… It’s where I started, and lots of peeps still run it…
@mmaner wrote a great tutorial here…
I no longer use it and moved most of my boards over to VESC Tool and FW 5.~
Is there a reason why you don’t wish to use FW 5.~? the only issue I’ve found is poor thermal motor filtering, and that’s being worked on at the present in FW5.02
+plus it’s not like you’re married to a FW, you can easily try FW out and if your motor, ESC, etc. are unhappy you can swap FW
good luck
Not really, I was just wondering what a good starting point would be since I see a lot of info for both. I thought switching FW would’ve been a lot more work lol.
Are there any noteable differences? Apart from that Ackmaniac is no longer being updated?
If this is your first GO at VESC tool… use ACK and Mike’s excellent tutorial… it will get your feet wet and is a great place to start… pretty much bullet-proof
if everything is hunky-dorey it’s your choice whether you wish to move back to VESC tool…
but in either choice… consider dropping Ben (Vedder) some folding cash for his effort… with out him… we’d still be back in the stone age… and ACK wouldn’t even exist
Ackmaniac has wattage control mode, that’s about it I believe.
I would run it if you feel comfortable with it and don’t need the features newer firmware provides.
Its been proven to be very reliable and stable.
Yeah this is my first time with a VESC tool so I’ll go with the ACK tool for now. I think I’ll only really need the bare minimum of features for now lol. Thanks guys