I wonder if anyone had their ESC blow up as a result of the sensor cable getting pulled out while running.
I had a weird accident last week. I changed my drive; installed the long xtla mounts, which put my motors further away from the ESC and there was almost no slack in the sensor cables. Then while testing the setup, as I turned, that put one of the motors even further from the ESC and the sensor cable got disconnected; also the solder joint on the 5V wire broke.
The VESC shut down and I wasn’t able to start it again. So I opened the board to find out the battery fuse has blown. That was a bit unexpected. I measured the continuity on the VESC input to assert it’s not shorted. It wasn’t. So I went ahead and replaced the fuse; then I carefully reconnected the VESC. Nothing bad happened at that point. However, when I pushed the start button it burst into flames. Fortunately the new fuse blew almost instantly and stopped the fire.
It seems weird to me that merely disconnecting the sensor cable would cause such a dramatic failure. This was with the BKB Xenith. Anyone experienced anything similar?
BTW, the input on the Xenith is shorted now.
After cleaning:
