Building a Custom ESC from Scratch (VESC Based)

Join me as I take you through my journey of building a custom Electronic Speed Controller (ESC) based on the VESC platform. This video documents my personal experience, highlighting the challenges, successes, and key learnings along the way. Whether you're a DIY enthusiast or simply curious about the process, I hope you find this project both informative and inspiring.

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[tbrun]

please do a video about the power supply

[UkTechGuy]

Like a lot of VESC enthusiasts and EV builders with VESC, looking this. More please

[RoadSurferOfficial]

Ferrite on the gate is a great tip, wow! GANfet based design is really cool.

[Nakipzhan]

Hello! Your video released just in right time, cause i'm design my own version of ESC, but not finally consider on what schematic it could be realized: VESC, ODrive or maybe some other. I am delighted with the work you have done! Good luck completing the project!

[Brian-S]

Even though you said you didn't do this for a commercial purpose I would strongly suggest getting this out there dude. It's a great design and it fills a great gap. I hope you truly consider this!

[benny-fobd]

Man, this video is such a gem, i startrd some time ago triying to desingn or find a affordable esc for 120v dc opperation around 100 to 200a continuous, but frankly i just have no idea what i am doing electroniks wise i tried to get an 3 phase mosfetdriver to communicate with an arduino and some mosfets for testing blew that 40 eur driver right up and man as a student i just dont have that kinda monney germany is so expensive.

I woukd love to get back someday to my projects. And man u kida give me hope

Love this video its so great !


Sorry for my bad englisch, its not my primary language

[LatutaEV]

Loved the video great would love to see videos about power supply etc

[TheLeetfrog]

Such a nice design, really well thought out and executed.

[iainmurphy]

Very cool project. Loved the tip about using a ferrite on the gate. I was going to say please make the psu video, but it looks like you already did haha

[td]

Awesome project, indeed! I like to use a solid state relay, when the output amp draw is high and a MCU is the controller. A Crydom SSR is easily driven directly from MCU pin, as it only requires 7mA of current to trigger it. SSRs come in a wide variety of Input/Output Voltages and DC/AC Input/Output Combinations. I built a DIY reflow oven with one. Stay away from the Fostek (spelling?) brand, as they are known to be under-designed and their specifications to be overstated. Cheers.

[i_am_terom]

Awesome project dude ! I wish i had the knowledge and confidence to do all of that :)

[harrylenon]

Nice! I used epc2014c in my thesis for a buck converter, its rediculous how small the pads are, soldering by hand it a nightmare. I want to design my own motor controller at some point, but the BOM gets pretty high pretty quick 😂 might get to it after i finish my synchronous buck-boost MPPT solar controller

[Roodger.eleventh]

It should be mas production, it should be a reliable, designed to by easy to with good manual, and I would be happy to buy hundreds of them. There is plenty people who need it

So what are you waiting for!!!

[jannis]

Hi, i would really like to buy the projekt files when the project is finished.
that controller would be grate on my ebike.
I hope you conceder selling something like a diy kit or just the files.

Awesome projekt, keep it going.
It would be grate to fill the 40s gap

[townjava]

Adding isolated gate drive and isolated current acquisition is necessary

[doronlola]

Has your gate driver got integrated OC desat protection? if so tested?

[aaronruningen]

Would you be willing to open source your work? I'd love to build a controller like this. Thanks for your videos.

[RayG]

What software are you using for designing

[cicerodev]

What continuous current did you achieve with the final version?

[doronlola]

Did you put freewheeling diodes to deal with voltage spikes driven by inductive load?