I get that, where I live, there isn’t really any downhills of course there’s sketchy ones if you really look for one where I just dangerously carve against cars with buddy’s going got no idea how fast , either way. If not adding a fuse is the best decision to the battery then that’s the decision I should make. More careful if you are with the work you put into building the board, carefully monitoring the system, I feel it’ll last for a very long time without it becoming a whole fiery mess. Just depends on quality I guess
I would much rather risk destroying my esc or battery than lose brakes and go flying into traffic at the bottom of a hill no thank you!
Not discharging through the BMS or fusing my battery no way.
Was about to plug this 8 pin female into my vesc and it DOESN’T FIT anywhere. The vesc only has a 7 pin male…did I buy the wrong remote/vesc?
You can either buy some jst connectors(nice to have an assortment) and depin/ repin in a 7 slot jst, or hack off the last pin and the key way jam it in and hot glue it so it doesn’t pop out(advisable either way).
The former is the best route. It’s nice to have connectors and a proper crimp tool for when ya need it.
Or ask someone to kindly ship one 7pin jst to ya(I could, but not ship till monday)
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Thanks for the tip, was looking forward to running her this weekend 
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Then either the whack a mole style or see how quick amazon can get it to ya. Make sure you get the right pitch. Most likely jst2.0
So chop that furthermost left empty pin off then shave the top key way?? Making sure I understand sir.
I’m guessing both keys would have to go. Line it up with your escs header and eyeball what needs to happen. Also make sure you pinout is correct.
I don’t understand why you had to adapt something?
The vx2 uses a standard connector also found on the Tenka aka what we call the UART port.
And since the tenka is a unity, it should be the same. Maybe flipsky bought the wrong connectors? 
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I definitely wasn’t expecting to tinker with these plugs. Maybe flipsky sent me the wrong jst? 
Seems like it. UART generally only has 7 pins
I have Flipsky FSESC and my remote thingy is 8pin and fits…
he got the v6 version instead of v4 for tenka
swap the rx / tx cable, also did u check the pinout?
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i usually don’t trust the printed paper, check the physical wires instead
also, swap the rx / tx pin
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Yes, absolutely. That’s the actual antenna part, the black wire is just a coax cable to carry the signal from the antenna to the board.
It doesn’t have to be that type. In a pinch to keep you rolling until a new one arrives, you can strip the black insulation, and the wire braid underneath, to expose the inner wire, and then trim the inner wire so that the exposed length is exactly 31.2mm long, which will allow it to act like an antenna at the correct frequency again. You don’t have to strip the inner wire - the insulation can stay on it.
As for replacements, any 2.4GHz antenna with an U.FL/IPEX connector on the end should do the trick. They’re available in a wide variety of lengths, radiation patterns, and mounting styles, all fairly cheaply from the usual scumbags.
Preferably away from any major obstructions - Not under where one of your feet will be, or directly above a big conductive object like a battery or BMS, for example. Wood is pretty transparent to rf, so it’s not super critical.
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Ty switching the wire worked but now my remote doesn’t show speed…