Is there any reliable VESCs on the market?

36v foc mode

There is the first problem. The cheap hw4.12 don’t work well on FOC.

You run a mountain board? What you set for your bat max limit?

FOC + 4.12 = blown up vesc

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Street board with 30amp Max battery

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Well that’s good to hear now

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30amps should be fine with 4.12. Than it seems that the FOC blew your vesc.

Is there any reliable VESCs on the market?

@jayx probably is thinking “no” at the moment. he keeps blowing shit up, but then again, he keeps doing things like running 13S and towing people on home-made carts. I was one of those people this morning. Sometimes its fun to just hang on and scream.

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If you buy all the cheap stuff, you will keep re-buying it, and it will keep breaking. Just get a Meepo or come back when you have a $1k budget. Otherwise, you will end up spending more in the end.

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Even the expensive VESC’s will blow up in 5 mins with wrong settings / incorrect procedures. They are far from plug and play.

But if setup right will outlast all your other components.

I agree with the above advice though running FOC will kill most all 4.12 vescs / especially the low end ones.

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