*SCAM ALERT* neoBOX open source Focbox variant (HW 4 and HW6 Design)

For our new ESC is design for 20S.

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Fantastic, rated current?

For current we work for 150A continuous at 20S.

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Do you have an estimated launch date for that controller? Youve piqued my interest.

It not until after spring festival. It still need some time before we can make available to friend for testing. It must pass our strict testing procedure first before is safe to test with others. But when we make we plan making 500 pieces so can always be stock.

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count me in. 2 for me :crossed_fingers:

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me too, sooner or later ill have to replace that maytech, and throwing that money at jeff feels right

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My engineer know about can bus problem. Also possible leakage of 5V back to USB port so we fix these for new layout. We also change to USB C port.

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Count me in also

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This is all very exciting. Jeff is making my wallet scared.

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My wallet has a minor stroke every time a neo thread is updated :rofl::rofl::rofl:

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Another problem @Gamer43 discovered is that a low ERPM there is noise in the measurement, so the motor position is no correctly calculated, leading to a significantly loss of torque, this is really apparent is hubs and direct drive, maybe he can explain it better

If you guys can fix that would be great

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You said it brother. Watching these products like a hawk and you are all my Guinea pigs.

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@Pedrodemio yes we notice some noise issue already on this design. Once we make new layout we can look more at this and how to solve best way.

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Can you also make a charge only bms?

Not now. But we already making one PCB with ESC and battery and BMS together.

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Please, for the love of God, do not use any MOSFETs from International Recitifer.

Also I would highly recommend the use of four terminal current shunts such as the PSG4 and the use of the INA240A1 for currebt sensing.

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We only use automotive grade parts. Our main business is make electric car.

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If you have the resources, I would highly recommend implementing your own motor control algorithm. There are just so many issues with the VESC and its derivatives’ firmware.

The reason why it gained so much popularity in this community was the form factor and the ease of selecting basic parameters such as current limits than compared to a kelly controller.

As an example, I saw nowhere in the code that takes into account that PWM values are preloaded and don’t take effect until the next timer update event. This means the observer is using wrong values for the applied A and B axis voltages. This would have a greater impact at high speed.

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We already making new ESC not based on VESC. But for now we replicate this one with some change for the community until is ready.

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