VESC WAND REMOTE soon to arrive from the future

WavRX · February 24, 2020, 11:19am

Duuuuuuuuuude does this thing have a disposable battery??

Andy87 · February 24, 2020, 11:42am

Duuuuuude you one year too late with this question
People use rechargeable AAA cells thou

Trampa · February 24, 2020, 5:07pm

What about the indicator on the Wand itself? Is that centred and moves according to the input?

Pimousse · February 24, 2020, 10:02pm

Yes

10char

Chupacabra · February 25, 2020, 3:35am

Kinda off topic but what is this HFi mode ? What does it do?

Andy87 · February 25, 2020, 5:04am

Chupacabra · February 25, 2020, 6:54am

Thanks

tipsy · February 25, 2020, 6:08pm

Would be cool if the wand had a NiMh mode for a more accurate battery % on rechargeables.

Soflo · February 25, 2020, 7:01pm

Over in the OSRR thread, it appears their dongle will work with a wand and has better range.

Pimousse · February 27, 2020, 10:02pm

Any news about my issue report ?
And about the github repo update ?

Trampa · February 28, 2020, 11:12am

The code will be uploaded to Github. The issue looks like HW related. What does the throttle indicator say. Is it centred?

Pimousse · February 29, 2020, 9:15am

Wand FW 1.1 : no issue
Wand FW 1.2 : issue
Is this really HW related ?

If so, WAND HW issue I assume.
So, please tell me how to send it to you to have a replacement one. Thank you.

Trampa · February 29, 2020, 1:30pm

I need to double check how it could be possible that there is a difference in throttle neutral between the two FW revisions.

Pimousse · February 29, 2020, 2:24pm

Once the github repo will be updated, I can help you doing that.

Trampa · February 29, 2020, 11:09pm

Could you try to switch on the wand with the right button? Maybe you got some CC holding the left button while switching on.

DerelictRobot · February 29, 2020, 11:45pm

If the current release firmware for the Wand gets posted I’d be happy to take a look and post what I find.

Plenty of reasons a code change could impact how an ADC is read, and looking at the V1 Wand code there is a good amount of filtering happening on the joystick input.

Trampa · March 1, 2020, 10:01am

The only difference in between the 1.1 and 1.2 FW is “immediate responsiveness” after switching it on or reboot and FW version display.
The rest of the code is the same. I’ll tell Benjamin to update GIthub.

Pimousse · March 1, 2020, 10:10am

Nice spotted.
This is the issue.

That leads to 2 concerns for me:

Ignore the buttons action at WAND start-up (using the right one makes switch the display)
Add a minimum ERPM for engaging CC (VESC FW side)

I’m really astonished that I’m the only one who encounter this issue so far (finally not HW related ).
Would be great if the WAND FW bugfix could be combine with USB update (or even better, OTA update).
This is pretty annoying to update rhe remote though VESC BM.

Trampa · March 1, 2020, 10:18am

We will ad a minimum ERPM for CC.

Andy87 · March 1, 2020, 11:15am

You are not the only one
Just updated my wand yesterday and reported to Frank that with the new FW the wand gets into CC as soon as you press longer than like 1sec the button to start your wand.

Hope that’s going to be changed fast.
Bit sketchy to be honest