@lia It worked
I did get something else, more on that later
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@lia It worked
I did get something else, more on that later
@loaffette said in Vesc Conversion Status (Rose/Mika):
I managed to obliterate my motor cable on my Superflux
Oh.... wow!
Sorry that happened but dope you got a new cable for free.
Fingies crossed it all works again so you can go clear out them lungs with some zoomy zooms.
WELL
I managed to obliterate my motor cable on my Superflux
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I don't want to talk about it
Convinced Fungineers to send me a new motor cable for free, and it arrived on Friday of last week
Spent about six hours yesterday doing the cable swap
I'm tired, I still have a headache from that and I'm very sure the lead content in my body has gone up by a considerable amount
It's not pretty
I will go back to clean it up
I'm tired, I don't want to deal with it for any longer than I have to
@cw_o Welcome :)
If the price is okay I'd take the risk. Getting actual chips from companies like Mouser, Digikey and LCSC can be pricey once you get to the shipping screen. I've gotten chips from eBay and AliExpress (likely the same source) without many issues for things like IMUs, Mosfets and a handful of logic ICs.
Get multiple though just in case you need to redo it. No more than 5 should be fine. IMU's are fragile so you may need to try a few times.
Before powering on I recommend grabbing a multimeter and checking the voltage rails and some of the capacitors for shorts to ground. The caps should have 1 to ground and the other to data so if any are bad then you may have a bridged solder joint under the chip and will have to repeat the process with less solder.
Below is a reference for the traces in the area if it helps at all.
@cw_o Did the seller say what hardware revision it was. It looks like it's pre-serialisation but the 4210-4213 models complain about mismatched BMS's. It can be worked around with additional modding but it's a factor.
4206-4209 are fine so if it's one of those it'll be a simple swap.
@cheesej Great work getting that fixed! Surprised that damage was enough to break the inductor.
Thanks for sharing your process :)