I made a youtube video explaining it, and will link it below- the youtube video may still be processing if you catch this thread early, but I wanted to go ahead and get this up so I can start troubleshooting and documenting the process. @chaka
summary: Road about 10-12 miles today. 2/3 or so with @longhairedboy in the morning, and then went for another couple miles before sundown when it gets slightly less hot here in FL. After stopping, changing some camera settings, and then starting back up, the board just stopped within 300 yards of my ride resuming. The reasonI mention this is because while I changed camera settings for 5ish minutes, you would think the VESC could cool a little, and therefore heat wouldn’t have been the issue- not to mention I road it way harder with LHB in the morning. Space Cell was fine and at about 35%, but I got no throttle response, and my GTB2 light was blinking, showing that the receiver disconnected.
The rest is shown in the video:
of course, right when I sell my two unused ESC’s, Enertion’s VESC’s get super delayed, and my chaka one dies-
I’m officially eboardless for the next month or so…
yet I have 4 motors, 3 18650 packs, remotes, wheels, and basically everything I need to make 3 completes except VESC’s
Also, I’ve been using that xt60 -> 12gauge -> 10 gauge -> VESC ever since I first got the VESC, and had to fit it in my crammed wood arbor box. At first, I accidentally cut too much off the 10gauge, so I soldered little pieces of 12 on there before throwing back on the xt60. The space cell uses 12gauge, so it’s not going to be a bottleneck.
Time to bring out a multimeter and check your power source. Something is definitely going on with those cables judging by your video. Since you a hearing a little pop every time means you have a bad connection somewhere upstream from the capacitor.
Soldering these fat cables requires a big soldering iron, 80 watts at least to do a good job. You also need some good flux, I use Kester 186. You can find small bottles on ebay for cheap if you don’t want to buy a gallon of it.
Of course you can send the vesc back for repair but I really think it is a cable issue here.
You could ask the inventor himself! He lives in europe so you will have to get on late at night but there are very knowledgeable people on the chat that might be able to help. He might help you out. When i talked to him it was really late. I think something failed you just dont know what.
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=vedder
worst case you’ll have to ride my rat board for the May ride. Its plenty ornery enough. But i think you’ll have a fix or replacement from @chaka by then for sure if you send it off now. I was hoping we’d both be on 10S so we can show those spandex clad cyclist hoards what’s up.
I priority mailed it to Chaka… hopefully will have a speedy fix.
I think worst case is I buy a castle 6s esc and get my 6s4p + torqueboards 230kv motor up and running. It would be significantly slower than the rat board though…
I really wanted to bring my bro to the ride though! Haha it kills me to see hubs, three batteries, 2 motors, remotes, boards, wheels, and LITERALLY everything I need for 3 boards except VESC’s…