At first I was a little baffled to see the 20€ price tag on the VESC Tool Platinum, but what the hell. Vedder has done some great work and I’ll happily pay him to use his program.
One question though, in the product description it says “… You will be able to download the latest platinum status version of VESC Tool for six months.”
So it’s a subscription to get updates, but once I have them I can use them for however long I want?
Yeah, just read that. Looks like it’ll be like flair on the vesc forum. Might even get your questions answered faster. I have zero problem with this structure. Wish he had set up a patreon or something a long time ago.
Well, per Franks post, FOC is only better if upgrade to the new 3.27 FW running on 4.12 HW. It is not the tool itself that will grant better FOC-ing (heh)
You can access the VESC-Tool download and the forum, other sections will follow soon. Beside a good start into the week you will be able to use the new FW 3.27 with your 4.xx hardware. Your 4.xx will still be a 4.xx, but FOC is a lot better and all the new features, like the input wizards and throttle curves, are available. Note that this update won’t make HW 4.x more robust against broken DRVs for certain motors, so if you had problems with a motor and HW 4.x before it is likely to remain.
What I didn’t understand is if it is required to upgrade to 3.27FW on 4.12HW in order to use vesc tool.
Yes I plan to build 0.81 for macOS. Though I hope at some point it will be possible to download from the official website. I am willing to help with that.
The new way for managing parameters and (de-)serialisation is well made and really cool. I like it. Thank you Benjamin. Very easy to extend. I can finally implement my Pedelec App.