The signal is fine, we ride these remotes since 5 years now and started with 0dBm NRF 24 chipsets in modded Nunchucks. That worked very nice but for left handed riders some cutouts could happen if the receiver was in a bad location behind the body. Now we have a lot more signal strength available using the latest NRF 5xxx chipsets. In all our tests and everyday riding we never had signal loss issues like you would experience with PPM skateboard controllers.
A very strong signal is not always desirable! You want your board to loose connection after some distance, so that failsafe can stop the board from travelling at speed into something.
I can remember one user who managed to shoot his board 100m up the road into a concrete pillar.
The board received full signal till impact.
Also we want to limit the radius of radio “pollution/noise”. The more radio devices we wear, use, hold, drive, the more noise is always around us, so we want to limit the impact radius of each device. The signal should be strong enough to have a good and stable connection, but weak enough to disconnect after 20 meters and activate failsafe of the VESC. The Wand features two blinking dots to indicate communication between the VESC and the remote. They should blink relatively fast. Easy to see…
With regards to the throttle lever: If you compare gaming to e-skating, we are always very gentle to the trigger. Gamers can go pretty wild on their game controllers.