Dajum this is clean! Love the display, and the wiring! It all looks so neat.
Where did you find the display?
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Thanks! Its super easy to have clean wiring with screw terminals 
I got the display from ebay, i prefer this one as its a bit smaller, 32pixels vs 64: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/332047978840
So you updated the driver and images to support this new resolution? Respect!
No, just used the defaults, its just squeezed.
Wow! Finally received it. Looks good
The winter has come around here, so I will install this the coming months.
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Hi guys. I almost forgot the most the most important thing: donations. I ordered few extra naked pcbs; 100% of this sale’s profits will be forwarded to @jtag’s paypal.
2oz copper on inner and outer layers enig gold immersion fr4 laminate
oshpark price: 130$ for 3 my price: 15euro/each (please buy 2 at least)
*sorry for pics quality
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is that for just the PCB without the pressed in terminals or anything baked onto it?
Pcb as shown on picture (no components installed). Somebody may not agree with me but I believe oshpark is definitely overpriced.
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That’s ludicrous. $43 per unit is ludicrous, even for that level of complexity.
I want to try my hand at baking these on my own. I just bought a reflow oven. I’m also hoping to be able to bake the rest of the things i use in house as well, such as the VESC6 and my eswitches.
I’m tired of relying on volatile supply chains, and any chance to use elbow grease instead of cash is worth looking at.
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I believe hand soldering is only good for prototyping and repairs. Are the 20$ you save hand making vescs really worth 2 hours of your time? The truth is everytime I imagine you doing repetitive stuff like spot welding, I die a little inside. You are here to make art, let robots(or chinese) do the copy-paste job.
Btw no matter how hard you try, new generation pick&place robots will always be much more accurate than human shaky hands
You may have missed the part where i mentioned i bought a reflow oven. I’m not scared of manual pick-n-place, nor am i currently under any pressure to produce these. If it doesn’t work out oh well.
Don’t die inside. If you had any idea how much money i save building my own packs you’d feel better. I’m also damned good at it now and can knock out even a huge pack in just a couple hours. The evolve mods, for instance. The entire mod, machining the deck, welding and wiring the pack, and installing everything and testing is only three hours now. Last year it would have taken me all day.
Besides, if works out i can hire some kids to come in and do the manual stuff.
Look at what @chaka is doing. Lots of people thought it was a bad idea for him to vertically integrate as well. Now he’s got the best 4.12 format direct fet VESC in existence. Eventually i’m going to do it regardless but i thought i would start dipping a toe into making things now instead of next year.
I’m starting with this: https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/MSM2M9LC
Its just a simple triple FET eswitch with support for LED angel-eyes. I just ordered 9 of them and i’m going to make them myself to get an idea of how stupid this plan really is. I’ll probably do a VESC 4.12 next to get a handle on it before i do anything more complex.
There is no timeline on this, i’m already very busy, but it needs to happen eventually so why not start trying things out between stuff in my wait-time.
i know its hard to tell sometimes… but i’m building a factory. And as the Steeze Lord of this factory, i must have knowledge of all workings and understandings. If i haven’t at least tried my hand at pick-n-place-n-bake-n-spray then i would have failed everyone.
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Mine arrived maximus happimus
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This is great, being able to repair stuff on your own is faster and cheaper.
The only companies that are doing well in my country are following the same plan: do it locally and do it better. Maybe if oshpark started a USA pick&place service he’d jump on that; the premium package he sells contains extreme QC, R&D, amazon’s style service. Auto-assembly wouldn’t ruin any of that.
Interesting fact: Michelangelo did’t fisically paint all of his paintings; he had assistants to fill most of the easy and repetitive sections like the sky.
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@JTAG hey mate, any plans on adding a custom charge voltage? I want to undercharge my cells to 4.1v, not sure if Soft/Hard Over voltages would do this.
What are you asking 
? I don’t understand. You can change every voltage you like as long as you stay withing the hardware limits of the chips.
this is perfect. We can leave plenty of room at the top of the pack for braking regen.
So the soft over voltage will stop the charging process when reached?
Btw, one thing people should be aware of is the 3v higher than the pack voltage for charging. If you disconnect the charger when the pack is close to fully charged, and connect it again then you’ll end up with a pack at less than full charge.
Sounds good that you guys are all working on your DieBie-s
Mine’s still in Italy, the post was so super that they needed more then 2 weeks to get it into international center, but still there.
It is so unfair, for UPS Hungary isn’t Europe, we belong to an other zone (I guess I’m the closest to Italy) from all of us…
Hopefully mine will arrive once in January
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Have you tried to use the tracking number on your local post service’s website? It is very odd that a package remains too long at the int.fulfillment centre. Some Australia guy already received his box btw.
no I haven’t but I guess you looked at the italian, and you can see that the package was hold for 2 weeks on 1 place.
I hate everything that’s state property, they always are slow, doesn’t mater wich country, they can only hire people who don’t have a clue to anything…
But, never mind, I’m not fed up, it’s not urgent for the BMS to arrive, it’s only annoying that they can’t manage anything right. If we would work like this at our jobs, our companies would go bankrott