@lemur I appreciate the reply. I was able to get the light situation worked out.
What was the reasoning behind switching to the MK8? I am just curious as the main reason I went with the Thor, despite reports of caps blowing, was due to the amazing thermal performance as I live in hot tropics and it’s get hot in the summer and also the easy LED control without having to do step downs or conversions and extra hardware.
@lemur I am having a bit of an issue with the LEDs. I went with avasparks Laserbeam LED and the front one works perfect but the rear ones do not listen to any commands from led control on refloat on the VESC app and they just come on or change colors as they please.
I even tried just a basic 12v RGB strip and it still does the same thing. It's got 26 diodes but if I put 26 in refloat they don't light up. I put in like half of that amount and it gets like 20 of the diodes to light up. Very strange behavior. Did you have any trouble getting the rear ones to work?
I contacted fungineer support and they told me that the rear led has a different pinout but according to their own diagram each LED connection is the exact same.
@lemur did you use thermal paste or a pad? I did mine very similar to yours and I used a pad but it wasn't thick enough so I doubled it up which I know isn't the best method to do but I'm curious too what you did and what are your temps so far? I live in hot South Florida and my Thor got up to 46c when I was doing some off road with a few little hills. I know a lot of videos have shown people climbing some crazy hills and it didn't even break 40c so I'm just trying to see if I need to figure a different method for mounting or a better thermal pad
@lemur did you buy the aluminum plate that mounts to the controller lid precut and ready to go or did.ypu have to DIY it to fit everything properly?
I had to scratch my original build idea and I am gonna have to go back to using my spare xr controller box so I am kind of curious. I know there are mounting plates that are sold for the thor300 and a few other escs but am curious as to where you got yours at since there aren't too many articles about using the thor300 inside the stock box
@lemur awesome job on it and thanks for the reply. It's my first time really getting into the customization part of it after using the XRv kit for a bit. If you have anymore pics lying around of the install that you could post I would appreciate it.
I'm curious about the lightbar that you used as well. I'm looking at the avaspark laser beam light bar but there really aren't very many suggestions as far as light bars go.
@lemur hey I just got a bigger battery and ended up going with a Thor300 esc for my XR. I want to keep most everything else stock and just splice or use an adapter as needed like the stock XR harness and motor. Was just curious if you kept stock motor for this build you did?