Hello!
Recently, my VESC has started behaving strangely. It has a variety of issues:
Randomly becoming unresponsive(the remote shows the signal as strongest). It starts working after a few seconds
Becoming unresponsive and only completely turning it off and on again(by disconnecting the battery) works
Slight random braking when accelerating
Jerking when starting to break
When becoming unresponsive the display on my VX2 Pro freezes and shows the same values(same amperage, speed, etc.)
The remote is not at fault as this also happens with some other remote I own that is not UART.
Could this be a faulty VESC or something else? How can I diagnose it? I don’t want to waste my money buying another VESC and then figuring out that something else was the problem.
I noticed one time that the voltage of my board was displayed as 0 on my remote so I double checked all my battery connections and soldering and it seems solid.
Not sure what exactly was the fix but after replacing my BMS and controller, the issue was resolved. I think the most likely one is the BMS because I dropped it from really high up one time before and it could have been the issue for the malfunction.