Wiring your buck to the BMS discharge is essentially the same thing as wiring directly to your battery, but without any of the limiters/settings. You could do that, but I would put in an inline fuse between the two, just in case.
Do you actually have a separate antispark? or is “antispark switch” referring to the Xenith’s power switch?
You can get RX, TX, power, and ground for the Arduino from the Xenith, but it doesn’t provide enough current to power any LED strips or lighting. Less than 1A, if I remember correctly. Try to draw more and it’ll burn something out. If you want to do that, you need a different ESC that has aux power (i.e. Spintend)
You might be able to wire a relay to the Xenith’s switch in parallel, but that’s beyond my electrical knowledge. You’d definitely need to check the power ratings on the switch vs the relay.
Hi everyone, so I’m trying to make my first DIY board and I have ordered a stormcore 60D vesc and TB 6380 motors. I just realized that the vesc has motor leads that are 4mm female bullet connectors and the motor wires are a 12AWC wire with 5.5mm gold bullet connector female. I’m guessing I won’t be able to plug the motors into the vesc with the stock setup? Do I need an adapter cable or is there a better solution? If someone could let me know what would work best that would be awesome. Also if anyone can paste a link as to what I would need to purchase that would be helpful too. Thanks!
Adapters are available, just search around google/aliexpress. Or solder the correct connectors on yourself.
It depends on how much room you have in your enclosure and how comfortable you are with a soldering iron. The cleanest way is to put the right connectors on (either all 4mm or all 5.5.mm, both work fine).
FYI this is a custom board I bought from someone else. Maybe settings got changed up somehow when linking to a new phone and all that? Let me know if there is more info needed I’d be happy to oblige.
When it was colder i was running 70-80amps 40mph no problem ripping it having a great time, but have brought them down to even 50amps now, with a speed limit to 35 or 30 to help. It will overheat in ambient 70’s (~21C) and it’s just gonna get hotter.
Motors are canned, so I know that doesn’t help heat dissapation. I am also looking at redoing my belt setup because I have 2 idler pulleys and it may be creating too much resistance for it which also isn’t helping and have ordered new belts as the ones that are on it are too big to work with one pulley. Gonna try that when it gets in the mail because I know this isn’t ideal setup. I have also looked at adjusting alignment of the belt too but it’s spot on.
Is there anything else I could do? I love riding in the summer and want to do it more!
Thank you!
I did the same thing on my first and only at the moment build and really didn’t trust the solder joints from the ones listed on ebay, I learned to solder because of this and it wasn’t that bad. Plus this ensures your quality control on the connection
You could probably make a heatsink. It might help letting air inside the board instead of leaving the esc inside. Also, why is your motor/mofset temperature that low? Or am I bugging since I leave mine on 85°c
Mofset at 85°c start since you don’t want those to overheat. The motors don’t matter since it will increase mofset. I don’t have motor tempature sensors and it’s fine.
