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Just finished assembling my open source brushless controller. What do you think? More details in the comments. 3
Just finished assembling my open source brushless controller. What do you think? More details in the comments.
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I’ve been looking for a good brushless ESC for robotics projects and the only one I really liked was the VESC motor controller. This is, because it has FOC commutation, automatic motor detection and a digital interface for reading back the current state of the motor (current, voltage, speed, …).
Unfortunately, the original VESC is quite expensive (>150 Euros) and is hard to integrate into robotics projects, since it only has solder pads for wires and no way to mount it to a PCB. Additionally, it can provide LOTS of power and this is too much for most of my projects. This is, because it was built for e-skateboards and not for robotics projects.
Now I finally had the time to build my own version of the VESC which is more suitable for robotics use. It can deliver less power compared to the VESC, but is cheaper (~30 Euros) and features pin headers for easy mounting on a PCB.
Maybe someone finds it useful. You can check it out here: https://github.com/ClemensElflein/xESC
Looks awesome! Well done!
Have to commend your photography too. Before zooming in, this image really looked like a software render.
As an ESC designer, that looks awesome! Nice work! Sensed or sensorless?