I’ve have had my Snappy Chariot on and off the road for two months. In that time I’ve had a series of issues surrounding remotes, charging, motor shorting out, and blown dvr chip.
I think that all these items are incidental issues and are secondary to another larger problem at play. Without going into too much detail (see links if interested), my braking issue under acceleration with the Steeze and the Winning Remote has not been solved with rectifying the shorting phase wires on the R Spec windings.
With the recent motor repair I though I was going to be all set, however to night the problem has progressed. After 5 km of riding I noticed the the now familiar suggest brake pulse under acceleration came back. I then backed off and checked for heat on the vesc or motor and it was fine. No evidence of any burning smell or overheating. I then started off again slowly only to have the same problem happen again. Only now, when the braking pulse happens (it feels like the break has been tapped briefly), the board will coast for a second or as it doesn’t most often, the Spacecell shuts down.
So now if I accelerate, I get the brake sensation then the LCD screen and power with switch off. A toggle back and forth on the Spacecell brings it back to life. So I think the phase wires (while starting to brake down) were probably not the source of the braking problem.
I am pretty confident that this isn’t related to the remote. I’d like to think I’ve solved the phase wire issue with the additional heat shrink. I don’t think this is a VESC setting issue since my settings are based on @whitepony settings and he hasn’t had any of these issues. Is this a VESC or BMS issue??? @onloop, @lox897, @Jinra@evoheyax you’ve all helped nail these past issues. I am at a loss!
sounds like an BMS issue, maybe a loose solderconnection. I´d check all wires first and then work my way up, starting from the battery to BMS and so on
@TarzanHBK I think that could be the deal. I think the vibration that our batteries are subjected to on the streets is pretty substantial and can loosen solder points.
Not only vibrations but if you setup hasn’t been working right solder joins may have become warm as well which combined with vibrations will start to loosen them.
It does sound weird to me that a loose wire in the bms could cause such behavior.
When it brakes on its only, does the space cell shut off every time?
Maybe its a vesc issue. Have you looked at the vesc carefully to see if anything stands out?
I wish you had more ride data. Seeing a graph of everything that’s happening in your vesc might give us a better idea of exactly what’s happening. This is why I’ve spent so much time developing a bluetooth system for recording and graphing as much data as possible about the vesc in operation.
Try checking for faults first. Ride your board until it errors out and then plug it in to BLDC tool and check for faults. Just make sure not to turn it off in the time between.
So it started to happen where I would accelerate and then it would brake pulse and coast for a second and then I could accelerate for a bit and if would do it again. Every time this happened the battery still appeared to be on and functioning. Sometimes I would have to reconnect the remote.
After doing this for about 5 minutes I noticed that it would sometime switch the battery off. I tried to take it out last night to get it to trip again but every time the battery would just switch off. This makes it difficult to capture the faults. I need to get the bluetooth going asap. @Jinra Even when I leave the battery on, whenever I try and connect the usb to BLDC, it doesnt actually show up under the connect tab until I switch it of and on again (I am running a MAC).
I don’t think this would be causing the problem, but I’ll throw it out there… See below photo showing the wiring path - at the junction, there are bullet connectors, heat shrink and electrical tape separating them.
I’ve got the battery to stay alive after one of the brake glitches and have connected it to BLDC…
At first hook up it came back as fault code none, so I ran it while on the bench and the pack stitched off and came back as FAULT UNDER_VOLTAGE. Sounds like the space cell is at fault here? I wasn’t sure how to export the data so I’ve taken 3 screen captures of the live BLDC report right after the fault.
For comparison, the attached screenshot shows its output while running normally on the bench 37.6v . It looks okay but must glitch when under load maybe?
Am I the only one whose reading the voltage along with the fault code from these screen shots? It says the current voltage is 0.5 volts in all but the last one.
The thing is, it’s hard to say what’s at fault still. My second enertion vesc broke the second day with an error saying under voltage, but it stays there permanently, it’ll never go away. This comes and goes, so I would be more willing to say it’s the battery.
Do you have any other batteries laying around?
And are you sure the wiring is solid between the vesc and battery?
At this point, you might be best trying another vesc or another battery if possible. That would 100% narrow it down.
Thanks guys, to clarify the last screenshot represents it running as it should (before the error). The first three show the results once the fault has happened. The .05 volts must have been the final reading before the vesc/battery shut off.
I’ll be able to test another vesc before I’ll be able to test another battery so I’ll start there.
If it is a bms issue, I wonder if it is just purely faulty rather that a loose wire?
Push skating to the tram this morning… man this sucks!
