DIY Electric Skateboard Build - How To Program a Vesc 

you are doing so great. your tutorials helped alot. thanks mike

Great job of teaching me how to program my new vesc. Thanks man.

Bro, love all the content, and info. I've learned a ton.

I’ve always wanted to know how to do this! Great vids! Have a good day! 👍👌

Thanks dude i was searching for a solution and the VESC didnt work, with the 1.16 so i downloaded 0.95 and works so far Great.

Thank you so much!!😀

Very Informative.

gread video. very informative

best tutorial eveerr!!

I made a skateboard using all of his parts and it is fun man. i want to now have more power with vesc and beefy motors

Hi Mike, Thanks for the awesome video, do you happen to know if you could build a weight sensor on the board so if there is no weight the motor will act as a break Cheers

Hi Mike, thank you for the easy video on this tool, with the programation explained by you its possible spin a motor forward and backward with the same intesity or there is some other addition to do in programmation? i mean for moving a vehicle forward and backword and not just for breaking

wow... you figured it all out. thx! ... Ubuntu is another alternative to Windows emulation on the Apple Platform... Still trying to figure all this stuff out... thx for sharing.

Could you please do a Dual motor programing Video?

thanks

thank you for the videos. would you be able to give some information on how to set up a vesc to run a salvaged hoverboard wheel? i have a project that could use some guidance

Nice & Thanks :)

I’ve been waiting for about a month for just an xt90 connector to complete my electric skateboard build!!

Very informative video. I have few questions. How do you know what motor type (bldc, dc, foc) to put? Is it something the spec of the motor we need to know when we purchase the motor? As for the sensor, how do know what sensor have or if any?

Hey, I finally got mine to work but now when I went to change some settings after following all instructions correctly again now nothing happens when I press the trigger on the controller?

Friend, thank you very much for the video, it is very good, but I have a query in foc setting in the first button it asks me to measure the motor, is it the resistance of the motor or is something damaged? please help

Your customer service from a1-10 is a 2+. I've been building my first diy since November. Bought your single 36v esc for my 10s4p with a 170kv motor

Are you going to make a digital remote like the meepo v3 remote shows your speed and how miles total on your board!

So suppose I knew nothing about how to wire or use the vesc 6. Does the vesc app describe everything you need to do and how to do it? Thanks for the vid!

Hey Mike thanks for the video, I'm building an ebike with an outdrive motor and I have one with a hub motor that I would like to switch over to using these fsesc controllers on first of all I'm 53 years old and I'm up on some tech but not everything and I e been using them huge controllers from china lol! But first do I need a reciever to program this because I thought them wires would go to my throttle, so I cut it off, but I saved it in case I have to wire it back up... hope you can help me.. well do one question at a time.. thank you so much..????

@Mike Beard is it okey flipsky 4.12 vesc with 6374 motor ? is 50 amp is enough for hills ?

Hey Mike great video while I am a noob my vesc is not detected it's vesc 6.6 is that a USB issue or windows 10 setback, I have my lights on perfectly with blue and green blinks, please help if you have an adviser

Nice video, just what I needed to watch. I'm thinkinh of buying a vesc as a replacement for the ESC I burned while connecting with a cable that was not verified for polarity. I have some questions regarding the vesc hw and firmware versions / revisions. I see hw version 4.20 and 4.12 and 2.18 and 3.28 for the firmware. I cannot easily find the differences between them and which should I buy, since the prices also differ. Thank you for your video and keep the good work.

With my board, it would simply stop the motor when braking, there was no gentle ramp up of the brakes. Is there any way to manipulating the ramping time for braking or is the only way to do this to deaden the breaks by like 25% to reduce the braking power overall?

Question. Since LIPOs have to be balance charged does regenerative braking damage them?

Video was super helpful. Do you know how to "reverse" the board using that specific controller too?

Good afternoon, do you know how to configure I2C communication in VESC?

Estou montando um patinete para até 180kg aproximadamente. Quero colocar dois motores na mesma roda. Se eu usar fsesc dual é a melhor opção? Não queria colocar o motor na frente. Obrigado. Ótima

could you do a brief explanation about the motor settings: FOC, DC, and BLDC.

Hi Mike , I have a DC BRUSHED motor I want to program. Is the process the same to configure a BRUSHED MOTOR VS A BRUSHLESS motor?

Hi,im a newbie on building/making electric skateboard..there are 2 version of single vesc which one is better?and also i want to build from a scratch a 10s2p battery pack..is it compatible with 2 single vesc and a 190kv motor?what version of vesc software do i have to download for the right vesc?..thank you in advance for the respond...

Mine keeps saying could not auto connect? I have it plugged into the computer with the wire that came with the vesc and I have the battery attached and charged.. do I need to have the receiver and motor to the vesc in order for the pc to recognise it?

So do all vesc need to be programmed like your video?

I just bought a diy dual belt driven board secondhand on FB marketplace. Got it for a steal at $100 however the remote stopped working. I'm going to upgrade the standard esc to a vesc but not sure what type/size battery it's using ....is there any way to find out so when I program I do it correctly? TIA

Thanks for that, so how do you know what do you have to write in the program for amps of motor and amps for battery?

I was just hoping you could to a tutorial on the 10S 3P battery pack, because I am going to make one for my electric longboard which I am going to use for my school project

Great video Mike. One question I have is do you really need to connect the sensor wire to the VESC?

who can help me set up FSESC 4.12 to drive back and forward with NON sensor motor ? is possible ? control by PWM

Instead of accelerate can you get a variable braking force?

The sensorcables from my motor ripped of. can i still use a vesc or should i go for a normal esc ???

Did you find any pulley that works with kegels and dual motor kit from the boosted mini video?

How are you running vesc tool on mac?

How would you program it for a mountain board

thinking about making my board 12s

A hint and a PSU, one for remote calibration and the other for the mini remote sold at Mboards (or any remote with this receiver bug). * You don't need to enter the min and max pulsewidth values. In order to be more precise you click the little swirl under the apply button, it resets the min and max read from your remote. Just go full throttle and full negative throttle and then hit apply. The software automatically applies the measured max and min from your remote. * The mini remote sold at Mboards has an odd bug where once your remote is out of range or turned off, the receiver outputs a pulsewidth of around 1.65ms. This usually results in about a 50/60 % throttle applied to your motor which is extremely problematic (my board spun off and launched itself in a ditch, which covered my board in mud and almost destroyed it.) In order to counter this you should calibrate the little potentiometer on the circuit board to output the same pulse at the center (thus about 1.65ms, this could vary, check this for your remote by turning it off and reading the value). After having done that you should do the step above and calibrate the max and min again. Again I learned this the hard way and almost messed up my battery pack. Stay safe.

how do you change the throttle curve?

Hi Mike I got a small question! I also have to do the work around and nearly the end it says that the flash drive is too small (its about 16GB) do you know how big yours is? By the way: I love your videos, keep it up. Max

Can we connect vesc to brushed dc motor

After brother stm32 connects to Vesc. The encoder curve is abnormal. It's normal if I dismantle Stm32! Do you know what happened?

Hi! I have recently programmed my VESC for my robot project. The problem I have is that it is too fast which makes it hard to control. My question for you is, can I decrease the speed by decreasing the motor max current in the sitting? Thanks if you answer!

How do I have to choose the vesc? I have to choose one according to the power of the motor?

Current specs: 2 5200 mAH, 3s1p lipos, VESC, and 6355 190KV motor. I attached it and set it all up and the longboard still doesn't move when I stand on it. Is this a hardware or software issue?

can you use motors with no censors? I have had two esc break on me and I am looking for a better option.

So what if you are using a dual monitor system and are using 2 vesc?

how about programming a 48v 13ah 5 parallel hailong battery on an ebike with 1000w hub wheel

I have a question.....Cant you use a charge port with a 4 wire pin connected to an esc ? Thanks.

ola boa tarde. estou a usar vesc 75300 r2, motor 65161 120kv, controle rc em ppm. façotodas estas configuraçoes porem meu motor não gira de continuo e não acelera, ao contrario gira e para, gira e para, quando aciona o acelerador. poderia me ajudar comesta configuração estou usando vesc tool 6.02

is it possible to use a Dual Belt Drive 5055 Motor Kit instead of a one belt drive with this kind of Vesc and battery? and what other consequences would this have?

Can i use that esc on kv motors without the senser wire?

you should sell custom esc enclosures.

What do you do if you have 2 VESC? I’m trying to build Skate Metric’s foosted board.

Does two motors need two vescs

why did you skip hall sensors calibration at 7:52

When I get to the step to make your motor spin(foc) it says that it failed and then when I go to retry it, it says that my vesc isnt connected.

What about setting the erpm limit?

FOCBOX Unity worth it over two VESCs? I'm concerned about the VESCs burning out. Already been experiencing DRV errors in the past.

4:20 Lol I think i’m the only person who uses Windows Linux and my Mac interchangeably. Seems like I reach for my macbook a lot more nowadays tho

where can you get a battery for the remote ?

How do you figure out your battery current max?

Is it possible to make the motor go in forward and reverse with a single Vesc?

hey wondering if anyone on here could help me? when I was putting everything together a bare wire touched the receiver chip for the remote, which is just an open circuit board, it sparked a good one. finally when everything was connect I powered up the board and controller, the Vesc lights up, but the indicator light on the remote receiver does not. hoping that all that was damaged was that particular chip. My question is do i need both a new controller and receiver? or maybe just the receiver because the controller is good? also would i need to reprogram the new remote? thanks for any assistance!

The remote have reverse gear

What are the sensors?

what does v in vesc stand for?

Whats the "Battery current Max" of your 10s2p?

I have vesc from Flipsky company and when I measured R&L in FOC it showed R=0 what should I do? Vesc isn't working now, when I tried to click my remote to spin motor on The vesc was A red Light betwin Green and Blue

So, how do you calculate the amperage of your battery, and what percentage of your batteries amperage do you use as the output for your motors? Thx in advance

I hooked everything up and didn’t program and it worked so I need to still program

How to run windows on Mac

What if my motors don't have sensor wires

Windows on a Mac???

There is a way to use vesc tool on mac, I have vesc tool on mac and I am still using mac OS

where i can buy the vesc becaus the link do not work

HELP! COMPUTER EDDIOT! need program my dual VESC for MAC. how and where?

Does two 5s battery's count as 10s?

Why is my braking power so powerful on my DIY setup, running 12s through one motor btw

My vesc didn’t come with the signal wire

If im running a 10s4p battery with 6354 motors what should I set my battery max and battery regen at?

question: after the BS that I went through trying to program my 2VESC's and blowing up I think4, buying a PC that's SAS(slow as SHIT) etc..I would love to get this program to download for my MAC. can anyone please tell me where or how I can find this? im losing fate in humanity. you buy kits from DIY and they omit the part about paying, NO I sorry, donating money to some dude to get an updated version. If you don't donate your not going to get updated wizard.

You didnt even address the centering the remote, I havent even calibrated a single vesc and even I know that, who knows what else you missed :(

You can probably run it in wine for macOS

You could've just run Linux on your computer to make things easier.

5:10 thnks me letter

WHATS THE POINT BUYING EXPENSIVE VESCS WITH USB PROGRAMMING WITH SUCH LITTLE PROGRAMMING NEEDS TO BE DONE WHICH IS NOT IMPORTANT AT ALL WHEN WE CAN GET THE DIFFERENT VESCs WITH PROGRAMING CARD