General discussion

Hello folks,
I have two questions I can't answer myself and would like to politely ask you guys for help:

Question one would be:

During the FOC loop the spacevector-modulation takes place.
For this the respective mosfets are switched on and off accordingly, as it is nicely described for example here: [link]

My first question is: Does the duty-cycle in FOC-Mode control the duty-cycle of the S(pace)V(ector)M(odulation)?

System components 

Motor 1: direct drive electric skateboard motor with Hall sensors

Motor 2: direct drive electric skateboard motor with Hall sensors

Encoder Incremental : 

Both motors are in Velocity mode.

Motor 1 is controlled by a remote controller and sets a velocity.

Motor 2 jog speed and direction is set by Motor 1 velocity/encoder position.

Can this be done in VESC tools/firmware or external controller?

Hello!

I’m trying to create a simple control system for a diver propulsion vehicle. Bluetooth obviously doesn’t work under water, so this needs to be controlled by a hard wired configuration.

I want two buttons - one for a low/medium throttle setting and one for fast.

Can anyone give me an “Idiot’s Guide” to how I should wire a VESC (4.x) to make this happen?

I'm not an electronics wizard, but I feel like this should be achievable :-)

Thanks! -Ben

I have a project that requires to control two direct-drive skateboard motors independently. Motor 1 needs to run in velocity mode at a set velocity.  Motor II reads a potentiometer 0- 5 volt or rotary encoder input and sets motor velocity in a positive or negative direction. I also need to measure the current and distance traveled. I believe this can be done in firmware.

Hi, this is my first e-bike build and I am planning to use a VESC controller. Thanks a ton to Benjamin for keeping the project opensource. I have few questions:

1) Does the VESC output battery pack capacity, remaining capacity, voltage, speed etc, on the UART? If yes, can I read this info using a controller to display it on a TFT display?

Hello everyone.

At first, I want to say thanks to the developers of this awesome ESC. I'm using it at my projects for a long time and it works almost perfect.

Now I'm trying to use vESC in my big hoverboat model. The motor is T-motor U8 135kv with 30" solid carbon propeller, it was previously used on large quadcopter and was presented to me without ESC.

Hey guys, I have been struggling with setting up PID speed control in the vesc controller. I am using a synchronous AC motor (https://www.amainhobbies.com/dynamite-fuze-1-5-6pole-brushless-motor-800kv-dyns1665/p635507). I let the vesc tool to identify the motor parameters and then the current control works perfectly, but it is somewhat impractical since i want to control the RPMs directly.

Hello,

I'm new to this forum and I hope that you will bear with me :) .

Is VESC able to drive AC Synchronous motors in closed loop with torque control, and i mean full featured control like Foc or Bldc mode. Here are some example motors:

I think that this one has 8 poles ( if it matters )

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Small-Mige-130-series-1KW-best_60...

Or these Kollmorgens

Hello Vesc community,
I have a problem with my maytech 100A vesc. I turned on ADC+UART APP and connected my brake on-off switch to VESC PPM input Ground-Signal wire.
ADC mode is ''current no reverse brake button''

It was working well before then suddenly stopped working. I checked my PPM input port , ground to signal wire , voltage is around 2.3V, checked my brake button, works fine.
I just couldnt figure out what's srong with my setup.

Hello

Im really intereated in building this vesc, i saw a vid on you tube showing an open source vesc, is the diy version still a working unit?

I found the file on github i see its 4 years old now really hope it does work, is there anything else i have to do / buy?

Also if it does work  can it be used with other controllers out there ?

Thank you