While waiting for my VESC to arrive, I was thinking about how to setup a variable braking mechanism with the existing lever handbrake on my Oxelo Town 9EF. According to vedder, it's possible to switch the thumb throttle to a variable brake by "connecting a button between the servo signal and ground wire"
https://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=63540&p=1042854&hilit=Vedder+thumb#p1042854
Has anyone tried this yet? Would it be possible to rig a hidden wire brake sensor to do that?
http://www.greenbikekit.com/hidden-wire-brake-sensor.html
Even better would be if the brake lever itself generated the variable brake signal. Is that doable? And I don't need regen braking to get the variable braking to work, right?