Hey guys I just finished my first build, its fucking incredible never had an electric longboard let alone one I’ve built. It broke just known but its an easy fix the motor mount broke.
I have a question about BMS. So the setup I had for my first build is a 60amp max motor and vesc 4.12, and the bms I attached to my 8s4p (Li-ion) is a 60A BMS.
So my question is If I wanted to make this a dual setup with another motor would I have to find a 120A BMS because I will have two motors + another vesc aswell??
What would happen If I kept the 60A bms on my battery with dual motors??
Nope! You can still use the same BMS, but just limit each VESC to 30a which should be plenty for most applications. If you go with 120a each VESC would be at 60a
Keep in mind that motor amps is not the same as battery amps. As long as you just stay with 60amps pulling from your battery ( -> 30a battery max for each vesc) you should have no problem with your bms.
Regarding the torque, you should have more torque since you are using two motors instead of one while pulling the same power from your battery (battery amps * battery voltage).
Ok great thanks stefan, later on down the line I will make another build that can tackle hills, If i wanted more torque for these hills would you recommend using a bms that could handle 120amps so I can do max currents for both motors??
What kind of hill are you riding, Everest? I have what is arguable a not very good 10s3p on dual 190kv motors and can climb 25deg hills without loosing much speed, 15deg hills while accelerating. I think you might focusing a bit too much in power deliver and not enough in motors and gearing.
U may have the vescs to pull 60 amps from the battery, as determined by the “battery amps”, but if u put a watt meter inline you’ll see that unless you’re running at full speed you’re not going to be able to get to that 60 amps. If u want more power at lower speeds u need to up the motor amp limit. Much more torque is possible and u could actually get (maybe depending on other things) the 60 amps u want but it won’t happen unless the motor amp limit is much higher. 200 is the limit and supposedly 150 is the max that the sensors can read so maybe try 150 motor amp on each vesc and you’ll blast off like you’d want
I would like to confirm what Hummie is saying.
I have put a watt meter in line and even with 6s voltage and dual motors going uphill, my peak amp draw from the battery was only about 36a total.
I have also tried increasing motor max current and even just raising mine from 60 to 80 per motor gave a noticeable increase in power especially at lower speeds.