What's more common, 60 degrees or 120 degrees phase angle?

[rg12]

and also what are most controllers set to?
I never seen hub motor sellers and controller sellers mention this but I read that a mismatch could be a mess flipping sensors etc...

Roy

 

[Alan B]

I believe most controllers adapt automatically. Never heard of this being a problem.

 

[rg12]

I believe most controllers adapt automatically. Never heard of this being a problem.

Thats what I thought, then a hub motor seller asked me which do I want 60 or 120 and I told the guy "wait a sec let me check..." and here i am.

Googled it and it seems that 60 is the more common and that Crystalyte hubs and controllers are 120...

From all I've read, there is no "self adapting", only match and don't match.
People are opening their hubs flipping the sides of the hall sensors and stuff...just imagined myself going through this cr**...no thank you.

 

[Alan B]

The difference is an inversion of one of the hall sensor signals. Pretty simple to recognize and compensate for in software. Seems to me that both the Xie Chang and the Sabvoton that I've used detect it and work either way. I've never messed with it on any of the motors I've used. It is an interesting question.

 

[rg12]

The difference is an inversion of one of the hall sensor signals. Pretty simple to recognize and compensate for in software. Seems to me that both the Xie Chang and the Sabvoton that I've used detect it and work either way. I've never messed with it on any of the motors I've used. It is an interesting question.

Yeah, the Alibaba vendor wasn't kind, he said "is it for a resell? do you know what you are doing? you have to match the controller to the motor!" and I was like "wha?! since when?"

EDIT: Just checked out a Chinese controller I just received from AliExpress and it says 60/120 so I guess they do adapt...
Maybe the threads I was reading were old and things have changed since then.
EDIT#2: Yup, 2007.