After ordering my VESC on the 15th of February, I finally received it today! Nobody can say I’m not patient.
This is my first VESC and only my seconds eboard build, so I have a few (noob) concerns.
Uploaded you will find a pic highlighting one area of concern. It looks like the ground wire’s solder spills over onto (what to me looks like a) MOSFET, the same thing occurs on the other side. Is this normal? Would this not cause a short circuit somehow?
Second total noob question: The thermal plastic covering the VESC, does that generally stay on, or do some people take it off in their builds?
Number of caps doesn’t really matter, as long as there’s enough capacitance and voltage that the VESC needs. But I agree, a bit misleading on the website.
@wiehan You may want to take a sharp blade and trim out a patch right above your mosfets for cooling. It allows more airflow to let those mosfets “breathe”, but I wouldn’t take it all off. It’s a pretty durable material that will protect your VESC. You are going to have to cut it to get to your JST connectors anyway.
Here’s an example from http://www.ollinboardcompany.com/product/vedder-s-speed-controller
If you comare the two pics, you can clearly see the pad in the highlighted area and how it connects to the traces on the PCB.
Looks clean, dude! Not the slickest solder job, but should be fine!