Vanarian said:silviasol said:They are fairly easy to replace you just need a hot air station and a good soldering iron with small tip. Quality solder and flux is best also.
Do you mind linking some solder iron and flux you would recommend?
On another topic I was recently wondering : when 2 VESC are plugged together and you want to update the firmware, do both VESC update when you update the "master" or do you have to do both separately? On same topic I forgot, is update available through Bluetooth ?
I use kingbo flux paste which is the most used flux in bga rework that I do, never tried other flux but this stuff is cheap and works very well. One $30 tub of it will last you for years. I use a hakko fx-951 soldering station with different tip sizes. These are really good soldering iron stations with alot of power but are about $150 to $200. You can get the non digital fx-888 for less which has the same power. For the vesc I use a small .5mm point tip for the small components and the two pinned chips and for the larger fets and caps I use a larger 4mm chisel tip. Works very well. There are many cheaper soldering stations available, just may not support certain tips. Haven't tried them but I assume the only difference will be how hot the very end of the tip will get on smaller tips or the quality of the tips. I go thru about 3 of the small ended tips a year just because they oxidize over time and will not wet solder at the very end.
chuttney1 said:Cruzing Vedder's page because I ran into an "OpenOCD init Failed" issue with my stm32F4 discovery board to look for answer. Came across a comment made by "Alex" what I believe Inboard is planning to use Vedder's controller in their product.
Pic from their Facebook page.
I hope they are donating or giving him credit of some sort. People these days just looking for an easy way out to make money!