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#9670

Yeah that FW shouldn’t even run the Unity since it uses a different MCU, Prog/SWD Flash the Unity with stock firmware and you’ll be right as rain.

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#9671

Well shit, I over looked that key piece of information. So I need to go back to the Unity VESC Tool and flash the FW?

#9672

Thanks, to be clear, flash the stock fw with the Unity VESC Tool and not Ackmaniac Tool?

#9673

Yes.

Edit: providing you didnt try to run the motors or anything high current like that, there shouldnt be any damage but if you tried its pretty conceivable you got some cooked DRVs but shit happens.

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#9674

Yes, load the latest version of whatever Unity was with the focbox tool. Only config unity with that or the UI, anything else and you’re in for a bad time.

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#9675

@moon
i sell one… interested? ^^

#9676

Only motor running was during the motor setting detection.

The Unity Tool doesn’t recognize which FW I need, so do I need to manually download the Unity FW from GitHub? If so, what is it called? VESC_default.bin?

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#9677

1 metal truck?

#9678

12201-MBSMatrixIITruckSystem
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Plastic baseplate

#9679

ah nvm. Would break it in like 1 month

#9680

How do you ride to brake them? :sweat_smile:

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#9681

Unity is not compatible with ack firmware… Roll it back to the stock unity firmware and it should work fine.
EDIT: I read more replies in the thread… Try downloading latest tool version if you haven’t already… Loading ack may have borked something though in which case you’ll have to go to GitHub at which point my knowledge ends… Perhaps @Deodand will be able to chime in?

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#9682

Im not heavy but I break stuff

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#9683

Well… ^^ So far they survived my offroading fat ass.

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#9684

I think you’re right about running the Ack fw over road the Focbox Tool from seeing my unity and apply unity fw. So I just loaded the Focbox UI Tool and while pressing and holding the power button, the focbox UI pushed the unity fw, so everything was fixed after that and I could run the config through the Focbox UI and it works great now!

Thanks @BluPenguin @itsrow and @Jordicious

I thought I bricked my new Unity, but all is good now!

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#9685

Bricking a unity is a painful thing to recognize, best to avoid the mental torture.

Happy to help.

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#9686

Whats the best way to trim motor shafts? I need to shave off about 3mm and am not sure what tool most people use.

#9687

Motor in vise, spin up, sandpaper on shaft!
Jk, seriously don’t do that.
The right way would be to remove the shaft and turn it down on a lathe but you might not have one…
Not sure what the diy/ghetto version would be :confused:

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#9688

Man I almost thought you were serious for a second :sweat_smile:
Good thing I don’t have a vise, let alone a lathe.

#9689

And when I say shave off 3mm I mean from the length, not diameter