I know this isnt normal, which is why I’m posting this. I do t even want to plug this guy in to my battery…
So I bought 2 fsesc and opened them, still factory sealed mind you… 1st thing I always do with Chinese ANYTHING is visually inspect for bad solder joints, cold solder, or something out of the ordinary as I don’t like blowing my self up.
Any who, one of the 2 I got looks BAD
The weird thing tho, no bad smell usually associated with burned electronics…
Side by side of the 2
The other 1 I’m about to wire up and set up, but I just sent Flipsky an email to find out what to do…
it does wipe off but the pads were the fets are supposed to be soldered to are gone, like burnt off… i dont think this unit was ever supposed to leave the factory lol
yea, i mean the 2nd esc seems to work perfectly… I’ve never ran FOC because i was always on 4.12 HW and holy crap is it a noticeable difference in sound and take off… its nice
So I plugged it in (as per their request for wanting the configuration it’s in) It SEEMS to work fine, green light and everything, no fault codes, but when going through the motor setup wizard, it won’t spin the motor for detection or even make it do that God awful sound. It’s been about 36 hrs since their last reply…
Yeah if you blow a fet on a Vesc it will still power on and communicate with your Computer but you won’t be able to spin a motor or do detection it’s def blown.
Yeah super weird how they let that through that obviously would not pass testing let alone physical inspection. It has to be powerd on to blow like that so it probably blew during the QC testing process and they still passed it…