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Ecuashungo
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VESC Tool cannot connect to VESC

Hi VESC Community

I am new to VESCs and really excited about them. To start playing around I bought two flipsky 4.20 vescs. I modifyied conf_general.h in the firmware to use the hardware version 410. I have uploaded the firmware through a st-link and it seems to be working just fine for one of the ESCs. The other one does not show up as a usb device anymore after uploading the custom firmware (I used the current master, commit 3a071ce). I observe, that after powering both vescs the green led starts glowing for the healthy VESC, whereas the malfunctioning VESC only shows the blue led and approx. every 2 seconds it shows the green LED very weakly and briefly.

There doesn't seem to be a short or anything like that, since my bench power supply is showing 0.02 A at 22.8V input.

Does anyone have an idea what could be going wrong? The VESCs are brandnew and it was used once this morning to test wether its working. Then I uploaded my own firmware and... ... nothing.

Some more info:

  • working with ubuntu 18.04
  • lsusb or dmesg | grep usb show nothing when connecting the malfunctioning VESC to the computer
  • upload through the st-link with SWD port still works

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

Best regards,

Ecuashungo

Ecuashungo
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I have just found this other thread:
https://vesc-project.com/node/2010

Using the gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2018-q2-update with "make" and "make upload" worked just fine and my VESC is now functional again.

I leave this here for future reference.

district9prawn
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Nice work getting it working.

Yes I've noticed the green LED flashing for a brief moment is a giveaway for this problem.