(SOLVED) Please Help! Motor is having trouble moving the weight of the board (without me standing on it)

ESK8 Electronics
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@Blasto

Hi! I just built my first esk8. I was unhappy to see that my board was not working. After many hours of troubleshooting, I still could not find out why it is not working. It seems to be related to low torque, which is weird because I have a 190kv motor. Warning in advance: ALL MY VIDEOS ARE LINKS due to a problem wih downloading.

When board is on the ground:

VIDEO: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5BaErN4DS8JU1VMbkcyRXpRb2c/view?usp=sharing

  • The board jitters and does not move.

  • If I give the board a kick, it moves very slowly

When the board is not on the ground:

VIDEO: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5BaErN4DS8JLWotSDdEcklZdGs/view?usp=sharing

  • Wheels spin much faster

  • No jittering

Here are my parts:

While I am riding the board, this is the fastest it goes:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5BaErN4DS8JRXROcVE0WkFLNFU/view?usp=sharing

I can supply you wiith the BLDC Tool screenshots if needed!

Thank you in advance!

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Send the BLDC screenshots :wink:

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Sounds like your being throttled by your settings, did you perform a motor detection?

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Yes. Here are the settings.

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Looks like you haven’t had a successful motor detection. Up the amps 1 or 2 and try it again. Don’t forget to ‘Apply’ the results and write config. Then, reboot and try it…

EDIT: Also, it’s in battery cut-off mode. Your voltages are too high for your battery configuration. 2 x 3s is only 25.2v fully charged and you’re telling the VESC it should have more than 33!

Change cut-off start to 20.5v and end to 19.5v

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Your voltage cutoffs are set for a 10S system, you have a 6S system

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lol, beat you to it :slight_smile:

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What does that mean. How do I fix it?

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Ok I will try and post my results. Thanks for your time!

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Change your cut off start and end

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Wooooow… Thank you sooooo much @Blasto @darkkevind… Just one more question, when we are riding, no matter the position on the controller(only forward positions actually) , the board will go full speed.

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You need to calibrate the controller in the application section of the BLDC software. PWM.

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What is PWM and do I need to plug in the controller? BTW thank you for your help!

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Pulse width modulation. It’s too do with how the controller talks to the ESC.

Please look up on YouTube: VESC setup

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Ok Thanks… Would this also include how to make my board go backwards as well?

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you can just tick “current” in your App configuration/PPM settings

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Thanks! It worked out great!

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Hi again! What would I change in my BLDC tool to go from a 6s set up to a 10s setup?

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You should really do a motor detection again and then change your voltage cut-off levels for 10 cells.

Work out the values that we gave you last time, then change them for 10 cells instead of 6 :slight_smile:

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What should i change it to?