This is stephen from sequre. Nice to meet you guy here. I hope this post will not violate the rules.
I noticed that some people will choose our ODdrive ESC for building RC model recently, so I would like to do a survey here to see if anyone have experience to build esk8 or somehing else with such ODESC?: ODESC3.6 Optimization of High Performance Brushless Motor High Power D – SEQURE
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Welcome!
A few users have expressed interest but I can’t say I know of a build using it.
https://forum.esk8.news/search?context=topic&context_id=51766&q=Odrive&skip_context=true
Can you share with us what makes your product competitive and worth trying out instead of our usual Vesc based systems?
Sure looks like a compact option
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I’ve been watching ODrive from afar for over a year but I haven’t had the urge yet to build an esk8 with it.
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Why is your “survey link” to a sales page and not a survey?
That’s a huge red flag.
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Pretty sure he just wanted to link the product and get our thoughts; not link an actual survey.
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It sure looks like a spam/SEO post when he says he wants to do a survey and then links a sales page instead of discussion or a survey.
Just sayin’
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Yeah, got the same from the post. Maybe lost in translation a little bit.
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The survey is to see how many people buy them…
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What kind of shit is this! wait, i should be outrage right?
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Sometimes I love you barking 
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Just trying to keep things real
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@Stephen
Honestly the main thing that is an absolute dealbreaker for me (and likely also for many other esk8 builders) is the very low maximum input voltage.
In most of our builds, we use 10s or 12s li-ion or li-polymer batteries with a voltage of 37-44.4v nominal, and 42-50.4v peak. The ESCs we use are rated for up to 60 volts, with some new ones recently released or in development that can handle 75 or 100+ volts to allow us to use even higher voltage batteries of 14, 16 or 20s. The ODESC you linked to has a max of only 24 volts, which is pathetically low by comparison. Even 6s batteries (max charge 25.2 volts) would be too much for it, and that’s half of what’s commonly used in esk8.
That means we get half the voltage, and thus half the performance, of any other ESC that we would normally pick.
Being stuck with 3-5S batteries is fine for RC cars and similar, but for esk8, it’s just not enough.
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user from sequre linking to a sequre webpage…yeah, sure sure
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These can do 12S, but I haven’t tried one.
I think they have to be programmed in python, I know they were working on a desktop interface; not sure if that’s done yet.
More non-spam info is in here:
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Yeh, the lack of a user-friendly GUI w/ wizard is definitely a barrier. Pretty intimidating for a newbie who just wants to skate.
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Yeah for sure 
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I may be out of line here, but is this a direct trademark violation of the famous robotics oDrive controller?
If these are related, we’re cool, otherwise, that’s disrespectful.
Edit: “Based on Odrive” does that mean this is like “Based on VESC” where you used oDrive as the basic starting point?
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