If they weren’t such dummy’s they would have stocked up!
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I fuckin love you guys
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I buy stacks of new wheels and toilet paper because I know that I’m gonna need them next year 
. Why not do the same for unity’s?
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Hey. You make a good point there. Can’t leave the store with a single roll of tp.
Specially when you’re full of shit
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Animals. I don’t feel as bad about my ridiculous pile of parts…
@CiscoV your point of view is amazing, with the amazing prices you’ve given us on your stash of stuff.
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Its 2020 guys, I’ve said it multiple times in this thread and I’m happy to say it again, Kevin actually did the community a favour by removing a shitty product off the market. Anyone who pays MSRP or resale needs their head examining, its not fucking safe at high speeds and its laughable anyone would pay Kevin his $400 he originally asked for the unities (33% markup, hes a pos).
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When you say (pos) do you mean
(positively obliging stud)
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Sure!
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Its a great product. No problems on my Unity.
Learn to build and you won’t have problems.
It caused at least 4 lawsuits, still plagued with transient noise on PPM servo cables from 3v/5v rails, antispark design is just as many fets in series as they could fit without a precharge circuit so it blows after x power cycles. Learn how stuff works and you won’t look stupid.
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Okay then, what dual ESC is perfectly safe at high speed with none of the problems you mentioned, with built in antispark switch?
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I know how things work. Most problems are caused by idiots who don’t know what they are doing and then blame the product.
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Dual ESCs are inherently less safe than singles, and having an antispark built-in to a ESC is just one more thing to fail that you can’t replace. I’d be going with 2x Trampa 6++ if I cared about my skin, and probably a Maytech 6.6 (again it has problems but they aren’t going to hurt you as bad as the unity unless you’re using UART) if I was limited to a budget.
@Crashmaster, have you controlled your unity at max duty cycle on PPM? Funny LHB has the same problems as me and I don’t think hes an idiot, he understands its fundamentally flawed and doesn’t pretend everythings fine. Enertion lost 4 consecutive lawsuits because it wasn’t the idiots fault that built it for almost killing the rider, it was a software problem in the Unity modified VESC tool.
@kellag Care to weigh in?
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It’s not perfect but it’s pretty solid, the only problem I’ve ever had is the same one as Damon. The tilt at high speeds
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Love ya
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I don’t agree there. There is nothing inherently dangerous about a dual ESC. If I took 2 single ESCs and populated them on a connected PCB with CANBUS wire traces across, it’s a “dual” ESC but technically 2 singles. Makes no difference for reliability by design. Having a separate antispark switch, now I populate that antispark on the same PCB, now it’s a dual ESC with antispark “built in”. My point is, consolidating components means that the singularity component has a higher overall failure chance, the same chance as all the failure rates of 2x single ESC + antispark is.
Whether the unity is good design or not is another story, but it is not the consolidation that is the problem. And as far as compactness, no ESC that is remotely as reliable as the unity exist in the same dimensions. I have boards where literally nothing else but a unity will fit other than some flipshit. Nothing else currently exist that can replace it, even when it’s not the best, it’s the best we currently have. Hopefully NEObox will derail this.
And yes I’m running UART on my unity.
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This is also true. Brian uses the newb thread to spread his personal opinion which doesn’t always line up with reality.
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I used a poor choice of words there, dual ESCs are no less safe than singles you’re totally correct there. But I’d never run a dual again since if anything goes wrong, you’re down to 0 drives while its getting repaired or you’re buying another dual controller while only one half of the original still works. EBMakers dual boards while V4.** are pretty resilient for lower current drawing builds while not comparable to the same calibre of a Unity they’re much smaller.
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First of all was it the Unity that was at fault.
As there are shitty controllers with subpar Rx’s hooked up in PPM that do fail.
And yes I had failures due to crappy controllers.
I never used the Vesc tool just the app.
I use older firmware and a reliable controller.
No drop outs. No shutting off. haven’t had my enclosure off in months. Plug and play so why is mine working so well.
I agree some lemons might get by but not all of the Unity’s are junk.
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Every single Unity is plagued by the PPM problem, its a design flaw and it can be anywhere from harmless to throwing you off the board and anywhere in between at upwards of 90% duty cycle. In my mind, yeah that makes the unity junk and after seeing a couple people get absolutely tossed from it, I’d rather use any other ESC at this point. The problem isnt an RX or a TX connection with a bad solder joint or something like that, its a groundloop or a trace overlay problem with the 3v rail and PPM data.
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