Hey VESC guru’s. I decided to switch my 4WD hub motor board from split servo PPM control to 4wd CAN bus control last night and lost 2 of the 4 VESC-X’s I was using. I’m pretty sure the CAN tranceivers are toast. Both VESC’s are lights out and the C25 CAP is getting hot. This same issue happened when I used CAN to control my TB VESC’s. I thought I was over using CAN bus after the first incident but making adjustments to all 4 VESC’s is so time consuming and I have a micro USB extension from the Master VESC that would allow me to adjust all 4 through the side of my enclosure had this worked.
I’ve never had issues running two VESC’s via CAN bus but running four seems to be problematic. Anyone else have any insight on this issue?
FYI I already triple checked my CAN bus harness there are no issues with it. I’m confident its Vesc hardware or firmware related.
Well, so that is not the reason. Seems odd that anything burned, when there is no power connected.
Seems like an odd bug.
Did you connect them as star or in series?
I used a length of wire and then soldered an extra piece at each end. Not sure that really qualifies as series though it’s more of a parallel connection.
I had chaka build a custom quad vesc. He has made atleast one other one from what I know. It uses canbus and splits them 4 ways. I id them 0, 1, 2 and 3. One master, 3 slaves. It works with no issues.
I use the vesc modules and iOS app system I have developed on the master, which is configured to uart + ppm. I use the 2.4 ghz trigger that torque boards made famous.
System works flawlessly. I’m just working on battery technology right now and developing a dummy proof battery system.