Noob question thread! 2020_Summer

[b264]

ESC Battery cutoff settings

State your pack and cutoff settings Easy enough? I’ll start Lithium ion 12s6p 30q 37.8 cutoff start 34.8 cutoff end -----------‐‐------ 10s3p 25r 31.5 cutoff start 30 cutoff end

3.2 is really low for lipo

[b264]

both

[RedEyedJedi]

Any recommendations for elbow pads? lol I posted some pics on the bloody images thread. ( I could post them here too, but they’re gross asf.

[frankthedragon]

Yeah the idea is that I’d rather dip closer to the actual hard stop of 3.0V rather than potentially lose control of the board in the event I miscalculate and run low. I get lower than expected consumption for some reason (somehow getting 25-35mi on 620Wh on pneumatics from 4.2-3.7V, more if I try), so the range from 3.5-3.2V is a fair amount of emergency range (guessing 3-5 miles). Since I will almost never actually reach a point that even the soft cutoff will kick in, it feels safer to have that emergency buffer than to do without.

[b264]

So you think. The first time you kill a P-group is when theory diverges from reality

[Halbj613]

anyone got a pic of a prototipo with a top mounted esc
friend wants a pic of one to see what it looks like

thanks

[rusins]

Sure, just send the proto my way and I’ll take a picture

[ZachTetra]

I’m checking my METR logs as one does, and my average battery current draw is negative…?

[xsynatic]

Are your motors inverted via the vesc tool?

[ZachTetra]

I think so, but while running forward is positive

[KonnerFallos1]

Hi guys, I am having trouble getting the nut off of the main part of the switch here. The nut doesn’t want to fit over the heat shrink. Is it OK to cut that off and apply more after I’ve gotten it attached to the enclosure?

[frame]

This reminds me of the flipsky smart antispark…Just cut the shrink, install ur things, heatshrink it again.

[KonnerFallos1]

Thanks, just wanted to be sure I would mess up anything too bad in the process ha

[frame]

Don’t go full waterjet on it, cut lightly, if it is the flipsky smart AS, then one of the wire inside is solder across two switch pin, u probably don’t want to cut that unless u want to do more soldering

[KonnerFallos1]

Thanks for the help! I’ll give it a shot

[zZoKo]

man i had that same problem i just brute forced it with my bare hands until the heashrink literally had a screw pattern on it

[mr.shiteside]

I’m a fan of this kind of thing

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[YeetMeat]

are some ESCs not going to be in stock for a while cause of chip shortages? (thinking of the xentih primarily here, since it’s what I’m hoping to use for another build)

[muf]

is It safe to solder 12 awg wire to these pins. to the outside of the flat pin and in thinner one

[b264]

It can be done yes but 12AWG is rather large for that. make sure you fuse one of the two terminals.