Do you know where I can get a matching battery indicator for the VESC? Or should I buy that for the battery separately? Do you know a good 42V Charger (i need 42V for 36V batteries right?)? Though I donāt know what battery Iāll get so I donāt know the max charging current. But a battery charge indicator would be great!
All of the answers to these questions are already here. People respond best to those who use search and read up as well as ask questions. You also need to read a certain amount to be elevated to the next trust level here, and Iām sure you will want to do that.
Cool to see your enthusiasm, though. So great to see fresh blood coming in here every day.
Any battery indicator that has an acceptable voltage range (0-50V is a common one) will work.
If you get a battery maker to make you one, you can ask them to include a connector for a battery meter.
If you know how to work with batteries safely and solder, you just wire the voltmeter in parallel.
Do a bit of searching around, thereās a looot of helpful info here.
Uhmā¦ I texted the battery builder guy and now I canāt find our chat dialogueā¦ On the messages bar thereās only conversations with people who answered me and this thread here. Do you know what I am overlooking?
Click your avatar, then click the larger avatar that appears, then youāll see āmessagesā on the toolbar. Then select āsentā from the dropdown.
Welcome @Niklas!
itās pretty hard to do anything wrong here
We have many german residents that could also help you out
@xsynatic @Mainflow @Creavenger @Benjo are a few of them
Also since you are new, we made a few threads that could really help you with building an esk8, especially since it all seems a bit complicated at the beginning with different Vesc and battery cells, battery chemistry, boards etcā¦
So if you donāt mind, have a look at some of these
Glossary of Terms
Battery Basics for Beginners [Serious-ish]
[WIKI] Trusted Battery Builders (Serious)
Builderās Wiki-start here! (SERIOUS)
Thats a lot of reading already haha.
I also want to note that 500 is very low and to build something good at that price is really hard when āāChina Boardsāā like Exway (pun intended) make amazing boards for the price.
May i ask how much range you want and what wheels you would like?
I just wanna make sure I donāt screw this up: what do you think is the best way to remove tis XT90 and replace with an XT60? Super simple job I just donāt have any wickāthink I could just press a hot tip to the joint and remove it?
i would remove the plastic ( via dremel ) so that you could work on removing one soldered joint at a time.
No need, once they get hot the bullet can spin loose, you cab heat one side then rotate it out of contact
Do thisā¦ I make shit harder than it has to be. i have quarantine brain.
nice could I heat up the bullet from the outside/inside the housing? That should work right?
Yeah, but to get enough thermal transfer it would require some solder, youāll loose the connector
cool yea I dont care about the XT90. Just the $150 controller
Does using 2 loopkeys make it twice as safe? (Battery connection lead is too short so Iām using a series connector and a fused key to bridge the gap
Itās science day!
I thought it was standard practice to have the loop key on the + wire?
Ehh, I didnāt make these, came with the board
The esc enclosure and battery box had Velcro on the bottom and the loop key was on the negative and I havenāt gotten around to fixing itā¦I just wanna ride
Pretty sure the loopkey goes on the negative no?
I got a loopkey form @PixelatedPolyeurthan today and it was on the negative (thanks for that)
I thought it doesnt matterš¤.
Can anyone help Iām trying to connect through bluetooth with my vesc on win 10. I can connect on the mobile device but it doesnt show up in win 10 with the desktop tool
Is it supposed to be crazy hard to get this thing off? I removed the housing because the bullet wouldnt heat up enough, but now I can directly hold my iron in front of the joint forever and it still wont come off! Itās crazy, the heatsink of the VESC is heating up like crazy but the bullet wont come off, is there a risk of getting the internals of the VESC too heated up?? I feel like Iām gonna fry this thing trying to get this off!