Full Overview: Upgrading your E-Bike to VESC!

Trampaboards has some INSANE VESC's and were the original developers of the VESC with Ben!

Also a good rule of thumb the general max amount of phase amps are 3x your line amp continous discharge of your battery.. phase amp = torque, line amps = speed

yes, a wiring video please 😀

Great video! Well presented and very useful information for sure.

Definitely, the wiring video is needed. I got a old 6.6 dual vesc that I want to put on my mx650 with a 2000 watt motor, but I have no idea how to get the wiring done right.

Wow your channel is a godsend. I am glad I found this before I spent a bunch of money on something I would just have ended up replacing! Keep up the great work ^^

Great Video. I put a VESC in an electric unicycle.

Thank you so much for your channel! We moved to Ecuador (we're Americans) not too long ago to help family. I don't want to have a car but need mobility. Moped-style electric Scooters are super prevalent here, I bought one and would love to know more about what I can do to upgrade its performance. So, really liking your channel! And I am not sure how much of the things you can get in the US can be found here. Lithium batteries are definitely expensive here.

Awesome video brotha!!

this was super helpful 🤘🏼

Thanks! Lots of good info. More please 🙏

Good stuff man. I didn't even know that the VESC can work with brushed motors too. Gonna have to look more into this

Nice video buddy. Thanks for the detail it was very helpful.

Lots of things I'd like to point out. Since VESC is open source, any companies can make VESCs. Flipsky ones are the best budget option, but they are not original vescs by any means. They are built in china to lower standards and overall lower quality, much better than standard ebike controllers though. (they also are making a brand new vesc str 500, which can do up to 500 amps cont. at 22S, 40kw). If you want an original vesc, you'd need to go to Trampa boards, but they are very expensive. Yes they have no display, (official vesc display also coming soon but like $130) but a Bluetooth module will be the best add on. And using your phone as a display is leagues better than most ebike displays. Showing all sorts of stats from battery percentage and voltage, real time usage and temps, efficiency, etc.. Most flipsky controllers can be updated to the latest firmware, but they will have issues! Most don't have phase filtering hardware, so if you forget to turn the setting off it will destroy the controller. My flipsky also completely failed to properly detect my motor on the latest firmware. (the motor would spin horribly and randomly stall). I had to downgrade it to an old firmware to tune my motor, then update back to the modern one to get the latest features. If you need a small amount of power, you can get 5v from the PWM + and -, since you probably won't need those for an ebike. But that's only enough for maybe some LEDs or a small cooling fan. I used 20-25 amps of motor braking current and it slows you down pretty fast. But it is not as strong as a mechanical brake, and when the motor spins slowly it has almost no effect. Regen braking is much stronger the faster you are moving, Overall vescs major downside is complexity, but for nerds or people willing to learn, they are super awesome. So versatile, and with new things like silent HFI (which can make a sensorless motor feel like it has hall sensors), very promising future.

About the safe start feature I had the same problem when profile set to 0 brake Don't leave it at zero and it should work at least for me it's solved the problem❤🎉

A wiring guide would be amazing

This got you a fella a like and subscribed.Keep going. I am building a 1500-watt trike.

I wish this video existed before I spent a bunch of money on votol controllers 😖 I can’t even connect to them to program them properly , such a tremendous pain in the ass and to top it off they are massive by comparison

I recently bought the baserunner from Grintech and it sounds like a very similar experience.

Good video