The TB VESCs are not a bad choice! If you can spend a bit more, you may be able to find a deal on some focboxes right now since they aren’t going to be making them anymore, but they may be out! They had them on sale for $99 but now their site/product page is down for it.
Its not really cutting a corner there, the FOCBOX has a nicely made case with an aluminium base plate for better heat dissipation as well, but the TB VESC will be able to run your 12s board fine.
this is truth. 4.12’s are easily destroyed no matter the form factor or optimized componentry. this is why we were doing all of the classic no-nos on the unity beta 1.
@nuttyjeff some things not to do ever: throttle it up and down repeatedly on the bench slamming on the brakes; run detection with shorted phase leads; miswire the can bus; mis wire the receiver in split ppm configs or even single ppm configs; reverse polarity on main power
any of those things could destroy even a competent VESC 4.12 variant
For a first build I think keeping things simple is the best option. Getting everything from one vendor and knowing it will all work together is golden. The hardest part of any build is getting components to be compatible. With @torqueboards that headache has been taken out of the equation and the gear is tried and tested with excellent back up. I regularly steer new guys towards Dexter’s kits because it is absolutely the best way to get on the road and get experience with DIY without causing mental breakdown. Great choices and make sure you get some pics uploaded when it starts to develop.
this is one of those that may or may not happen, but it does on occasion. there are reasons it could happen on the bench (unloaded) but not happen in the street (loaded) that i don’t fully understand but have witnessed. and like @chaka said its mostly to do with regen spikes.
because of that it mostly affects inferior products that haven’t been treated to handle it with better or bigger components but can occasionally happen on even a nice piece of kit because not everything comes off a line perfect.
I just fried a traditional 4.12 about a month ago doing this exact thing on an old set of carvons.
@dareno Thank you so much, this is probably the second comment that isn’t about the debate above . This is very true about how I want to go with torque boards, becuase I know that everything will fit together so I don’t have to worry about soldering because I don’t know how to do it. I don’t really have a budget, apart from sonthing excessive, but I don’t want to be buying parts again because I stuffed up, if I know it will work it’s one less thing to go wrong.
Perfect choice for a first build and think I’m going to get me some of those drives. Make a perfect lightweight board and with the tb back up a good safe bet. Good luck my friend.
Instead of using CANBUS, I personally recommend using the Mini Remote with 2 receivers. Not “split PPM” but two independent ESCs, each connected directly to a receiver.
Great choices and make sure you get some pics uploaded when it starts to develop.
10S6P 30Q dual FOCBOX
if a car pulls out in front of me I need to be able to slam the brakes hard. REALLY HARD.
it just looks so… I dont know how to describe it
I don’t like the flex though… for carbon, I expected less flex
gen 1 and 2 look identical to me then 