Recent content by RideTheIon

The above is good advice, the going to a motorcycle shop suggestion not the lederhosen. I first went to an automotive and household store. They only had kevlar jeans that felt like they weighed a few kg and were bulky as all hell, yeehaw cowboy. The cordura gear they had was the cheap motocross...

Does anyone here ride with kevlar jeans, cordura khakis or other protective pants? It'd be nice to have pants that could take a few falls without getting ripped. I had the understanding that kevlar jeans meant that the manufacturer had woven kevlar into the outer fabric. That would have been...

The ESC is I-wonder's own production or a rebrand. In the video 1:02, you can see their logo on the PCB under the cable with the Deans connector. It appears to be a sensored BLDC ESC. What puzzles me is that I don't see the FETs. The aluminum cans that are painted with a black stripe are caps...

Thanks, but unfortunately the PCBs these VESC are built on don’t have any printed graphics. It would have been cool in this situation if it had the HW version, but otherwise, since this wasn’t a solder yourself project, it is useless to print the “frames” for the components and connectors...

I bought the VESCs from jamesonotc from his September 2015 batch. I'm not sure about the HW version. I sent jamesonotc a msg a week ago, but he's probably still in winter hibernation mode. The board is probably hw_46_47 or hw_48 at best. When I was loading the firmware, I had a brain short and...

Last year I got a pair of VESCs. I had them wired up, bench tested and all, then winter came. I thought that all I had left to do was run the motor detect with a free spinning motor and stick the case to my board. Well, loaded up then newest BLDC tool and it said to load a newer firmware...

Seeing as VESC can be used in E-skate/mountainboard, E-bikes, rc-cars, ect, it would be best if VESC had its own forum or section. Most of the information about hooking up and configuring VESC is generic for all uses. In a perfect world, people would write their answers to the new forum in a...

If you're an openSUSE user and itching to configure your VESC, you'll find this post useful. Compiling bldc-tool on openSUSE 13.X / enterprise SUSE 12 is fairly straight forward, once you get the Qt5 environment setup. The biggest trip-up is that openSUSE's qmake only produces Qt4 makefiles...

I commute between Ruoholahti and Lauttasaari. In both areas people stare a lot, but in Ruoholahti it has a good vibe. People give me the thumbs up and I kind of get the feeling that their happy that their day has some entertainment. In Lauttasaari the reactions are more mixed. Especially the...

Tervetuloa porukkaan! Your board looks sleek and mean. There is hope that the proposed “segway”-law will change that. http://www.lvm.fi/tiedote/4437033/muutosta-aletaan-valmistella-kevyet-sahkokulkuneuvot-laillisiksi-liikennekaytossa The 15/25 kph speed limit really sucks :evil: I'm almost...

Here's a short video and speed results of a run. It's really cool to now know how fast I'm going instead of a guestimate. Bit thanks to Markus for lending his Suunto Ambit3 Peak watch. The GPS watch gave a top speed of 39.2 km/h and I'd say the throttle was at 90%. I'm not surprised, I'm...

That is definitely the good advice that I just didn't take. I probably put 3 hours into taping, gluing, filing ect. I was able to ride to work. Then while showing demoing the board to a colleague in the parking lot, the clips holding the magnets in one of the motors totally disintegrated. The...

Thanks for the advice. I'm looking around for an assembled VESC. I also opened another thread to get some help in selecting better motors. I used chemical metal (epoxy with metal powder) to glue the flux rings to the housing. The motors are definitely screwed up, but at least now they are...

I need help in selecting a new motor for my build. The motors I ordered from APS are falling apart with under an hour on the road. I'm not going to deem them to be absolute crap, since there’s a long list of things I should have done differently. With the next motors, I'll remove the shaft...

I read up on how the sensorless ESC works and now I understand why the board burns rubber when I'm not standing on it but studders when I'm trying to ride it. I was hoping there was a magic parameter that would fix this. Adding hall sensors seems doable with a kit from Equals Zero Designs, but...