VESC ADC input help

[sjoeman1]

Hello everybody,

I’m new to this electronic buisness and i’m making my own electric bike. I have a 6s3p batterypack with the torque ESC. For the input i have these E-bike throttles: https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B07FFVTR29/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 8
. The problem that i have is that can’t find any good step-by-step tutorials on how to setup the VESC with E-bike throttles.
Does anybody have some tips or helpful links?
Thanks for the help.

 

[TilmanBaumann]

You got GND, signal and +5V on your ADC port. Should be obvious.
Works with poti and hall style throttles.
Just calibrate the endpoints right via the input wizard.

Please ask specific questions.

 

[ScooterMan101]

We all need what you need , Pictures and Diagrams of a VESC and where to solder the wires to, as well as a full length video of how to do it .
As well as a Full Length Video on Youtube that shows how to program a VESC. ( Step by Step done slow enough to follow each step )

I am not building my own mid-drive because of the fact that there is no proper information .

 

[TilmanBaumann]

Well GTFO then. [emoji849]

That level of documenty is quite a bit to ask. But even worse, ALL of that is perhaps two or three Google searches away.
What's wrong with you guys?

Vedder made some pretty kickass videos about the software. The ports are bloody well labeled and obvious. There is a active community and forums. The code is on GitHub.
What could you possibly complain about!?

 

[TilmanBaumann]

This took me 2 seconds to find. And guess what, it was even linked in this exact forum here!

http://vedder.se/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/VESC_ADC_Button.png

 

[ScooterMan101]

Well finally someone is providing some links, calm down, what the OP wants and many of want as well , is a more narrow search, but more important how someone here has done it . Instead of many articles on a google search,
( which I did by the way, but found many other people asking the same question, not the answer ) .

And BTW Tillman, How to hook up a throttle to a VESC without having to use a Server Tester ? .
( someone already damaged his VESC by trying to do what someone on google did ,
here is just one of many examples not the damaged vesc one but one for whom what someone else did did not work for him ...
" La denky
8 months ago
Hi, at the moment i`m doing an e-bike project and i ran into an issue regarding the throttle... i did everything the same, soldering ect... and still not functioning do you have an idea what could be wrong ?
Thank you "

so better than a google search , is for feedback from someone who has done this successfully )

I am working on other projects at this time so I don't have hours to spend sorting through Google.
making my own RC mid-drive with throttle is off in the future.

Having it shown here is/can be a more condensed instruction , which for many of us is better than spending hours reading all the different links on Google , some of which does not always work.

 

[Addy]

Here is a rendering of the VESC 4.12 PCB with the ADC inputs marked.

For my ebike I have the throttle signal connected to ADC. I have a variable regen signal connected to ADC2.

Your throttle/regen devices should have 3 wires each:
Power
Signal
Ground

Power wires should connect to one of the 3.3V pins on the VESC, Ground wires to GND pins and signal wires connected like I described above.

 

[TilmanBaumann]

And BTW Tillman, How to hook up a throttle to a VESC without having to use a Server Tester ? .
( someone already damaged his VESC by trying to do what someone on google did ,
here is just one of many examples not the damaged vesc one but one for whom what someone else did did not work for him ...

Just provide a signal between vcc and 0v on the ADC pin.
Either via the the wiper contact of a poti between those voltages or via a hall effect sensor.

There is a second ADC which you can use for a progressive brake signal. Or use a button.
There is also a button option for fwd/reverse and cruise control.
The input wizard allows you quite flexible mapping of those.