I tried to search, but wasnt able to find anything too useful
Is there an advantage in buying a dual VESC over two individual single VESC’s?
For example, i’m looking at flipsky 4.2 dual vs flipsky 4.2 single.
buying two singles is slightly cheaper than a dual. And has the flexibility to be reused separately for the future
not really, i’m using the flipsky dual 4.20, you can use it seperately. It just has a can bus on the pcb. However it came with the ppm wire on 1 vesc only, you can solder another one on the other vesc.
usually dual escs are made are for dual motor, single deck, boards
seems like you just need 2x focbox/vesc/fesc (an optional addition would be heatsinks which could (this depends on which one you buy, obviously) protect the ESC against dust and water )
dual ESCs that are generally solid is the dual 6.6 from flipsky and unity, ive heard that a few others like the dual 4.2 from flipsky has some issues with overvoltage and other error readings
I just burned up 1 vesc in a dual single board set up. I’m now hesitant to buy anything dual…
I kinda wish enertion would make an “un-unity” single just for these kind of shenanigans. I know this sounds stupid, anyone wanna call me out? I have a fancy 300$ esk8 paperweight id like to show you. Btw it’s not a burned up unity, another brand.
All said, I’d happily run roll on the unity when it comes out and I think they would be quick to make you whole again if you had a hardware malfunction on one side.
Size was the reason I went for dual on single pen board recently.
In my N of 12, I’ve burned one drv on an early 4.7 (8?) vesc, jacked up firmware on a vesc6 (my bad), and burned components off one side of a 6.x dual. So far, I’ve had zero issues with my two single focbox’s and they have seen more miles and higher amps on 10s and 12s with zero logged faults than all the rest.
Not a full throated endorsement of focbox, but it works for me. If delivery times for the unity are stupid, I’d happily buy two more singles.
while I would agree with that I might have to take my reccomendation of the 6.6 dual back as theres a thread currently where people are discussing a common* issue where half their unit is having bootloader issues o.O