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lazerusrm
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Alien Power Systems Hall Sensors with VESC6

I have two alien power 80mm motors running in FOC.

I have hooked the sensors up and checked that i can rotate the motor slowly and get 5v on the different hall sensors between the +5V and phase hall sensors, but I've read I should get voltage from hall sensor to ground, can I not operate in this way??

It WILL NOT detect the motor hall sensors in BLDC or FOC mode, and i'm pretty sure i've hooked upeverything right, since i do get output on the sensors when probed with a volt meter.

what the heck am i doing wrong!?

 

The motors have no temp sensor, so that wire is skipped over. I hooked Red to +5V Ground to Black, and the three phase hall sensors to the remaining 3 wires closest to the ground pin.

 

So frustrated right now!  I want the extra low end torque because i ride offroad, and i want all my power to be able to start well on rocky hills smoothly. I have tons of power, but startup is still a little... meh

 

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Can you show a drawing and pictures of how you connected everything?

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Absolutely.  So the motor does spin when doing the detection, it spins very slowly, but it does not complete even a single rotation. I've tried different amperages (up to 50A current)

So, in this image The wiring is connected to the motor just as seen. I put the old connector next to the new one in the same orientation as the wiring has been connected. so as follows:

Old Connector   |      New Connector

Red                  ->     Green

BLANK            ->   Orange  No Connection (Motor has no temp sensor)

Blue            ->      Yellow

Yellow             ->      White

Green              ->      Red

Black             ->       Black

 

 

 

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In my opinion red wire should be connected to V+ and black to GND, the rest is halls. If your motor spins and doesn't detect hall it's likely that hall power supply is connected  incorrectly.

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It looks correct as far as I can tell. I will try to make a terminal command that tests the hall sensors to see if something seems to be wrong.

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I wish I could maybe visualise the output in the logging. I can hook up my scope and take readings if that helps too

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Are you sure the halls are working? I had an APS motor where the hall sensor wires broke so many times that I switched to external hall sensors.

I also had to ask APS for the wiring diagram for my motor. For mine it was: yellow - positive, red - negative, black white blue - sensor signals, green - temp. I had the 3000w 63mm motor. 

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I've emailed them for a response. wow if my cabling is like your's, my halls are definitely hooked up wrong, and probably blown. Ugh.  I hope not, but we'll see.

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Thanks for the helpful discussion fall guys