So, i initially detected both motors just fine an set up. i was finishing the build part, and took for a test around the block, half way around the block i lost all control and when i press throttle only one motor would spin for a moment.
I am now back at my garage and trying to redetect motor on the master vesc, and it is failing. i got a bunch of drv8302 faults when i look for faults in the terminal…
Ive never had an issue with this vesc and it seems pretty shitty to me that as soon as i tried a dual setup it broke
can anyone give me any suggestions on troubleshooting, repair, etc? Im at the end of my wits here and this is my last week with my board before i need to fly back out to school and was really looking forward to playing with my new dual drive setup
edit: the new vesc works just fine though, motor detection runs fine, and no faults; its the old one that got the DRV fault
Looks like you blew your DRV. You’ll need to get that or the VESC replaced. FYI you do NOT use “send status over can” on the main VESC, this might be why your DRV blew.
Send status over can = slave
Multiple ESCs over can = master
i also think it could have had something to do with my erpm setting, alot of reading around has lead me to believe it should be set to 60k max? can someone confirm this for me, for future reference and maybe anyone int he future looking for the info.
thanks
Unless your motor is over 260 kv, you shouldn’t even come close to 60k eRPM, doubt that was the problem. You don’t need to set the limit if your setup is good
EDIT: just saw your motor is 260kv, yea it probably wasn’t that
Wow! I never knew that.
Good thing I never tried to use canbus. I probably would have fried my Master Vesc.
I just stick with Dual Master Vescs using a signal Y cable.
Yea i tried send on both once and my motors spazzed out. Simply unchecked it from master and they ran fine. A good practice when testing anything you’re not sure about is to never give it more than a little throttle for less than a second to make sure nothing’s acting funny.
Yes, I plugged each vesc into the bldc tool one at a time loaded identical settings on both then use a Y splitter from the receiver to the 2 vescs. Being careful to supply 5v to the receiver from only one of the vesc’s by clipping the red wire from one of the signal cables.
I’ve been using this setup since day one on both of my builds and it works flawlessly.
alright im likely going to do that once i get my stuff repaired…and get back from school next year to use it…i have a handful of extra servo cables… so the key is to ensure that only one red wire is connected to either one of the two vescs?
Good point, guess it really doesn’t matter.
In fact, supplying 5v from both might have an advantage. Like if the buck converter fails on one Vesc, the other will keep things going.
