Volker’s Build - 80100 18650-30Q

Dry Test with prop:
Seems like 91kV

Well no torque applied , kv isn’t a fixed value , 14 poles , supposed to be a 80kv ?
Voltage left ( rpm) = voltage applied - resistance of coil x I
What Ri has a 80100?

And i thought, kV is always s no load value!?

Vesc says Ri 15mOhm
And yes, it should be a 80kV

Kv is calculated by spin the motor at a know rpm and measuring the voltage given , so the other way around , 12% off isn’t so bad ,with bemf… of what I understood… it is always a approximative value , just to help to choose the setup for brushless

I think you are talking about Ke there, which is an inverse measure of Kv. It is usually expressed as V/krpm

Okay, i did further Investigation for you guys…
180A Motorcurrent is no Problem for the Flipsky 200A
Only a short test in a bucket, after Few seconds the Motor ist pulling a bit air, and thats the reason, why Motorcurrent Drops…

Turned cooling off today for Testing

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And If there is anyone interested in motor consumption in air (with prop), here you are:
590W full Throttle
260W at cruising Speed

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And temperture cutoff at 75°C with no cooling and 90A Motorcurrent:

Such a nice focus on data that matter. Would you have a step like that with your 2 best props against a pontoon, a bathroom scale between the pontoon and the board nose (increasing duty cycle) ?

Sorry, no.
And honestly, I will not do that either.
All in can say, i got enough thrust to get on foil with 120A Motorcurrent. 32km/h with 130A Motor.
What i can say, that the Flipsky works with the 80100 good, and in combination with metr its a fuckin nice Tool to optimize a Setup/Prop.
if you compare the two blade and three blade and 4 blade propellers, there is not such difference. 4blade has more thrust and less AMP at Low Speed and more Amps at high Speed. 2Blade less thrust at Low Speed and better Performance (less consumption) at higher Speed.
The 3-blade propeller is a middle thing between the two.

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Well, i did these tests, cause i had some trouble with overcurrent faults. I needed to tweak some parameters and Investigate, where the issues have been. Decreasing Motor Filter Constant to 1/2 (0,050) did the Trick for me, in combination setting ABScurrent a bit higher.
The Problem was: you have to set ABScurrent much higher than only a bit higher, than Motorcurrent.
If i set Motor to 30A and ABS to 50, its easy to get a fault.

Those datas are still really really helpful. Thanks a lot !

Setting Motorcurrent Limit to 150A, way enough for my needs.

You need to be careful with the meassured values. The 200A rated VESC clones we tested could not even meassure 200A. If it can’t meassure the current preciseley it can’t run at such currents. RT Data is as good as the precission of the device taking the meassures.

RT Data analysis is now part of VESC-Tool. Watch Vedder Video on YouTube.
It’s very easy. Connect with VESC Tool App, go to Develloper, choose a directory ( e.g. sdcard/Downloads), Enable RT Data Logging. After your ride, email the csv file and open it in VESC Tool. You will get access to 50 different values and have a map overlay.

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Nice, looks like a new funktion?
Anyways, thank you for that hint, i’ll test it

Super easy and very precise.

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Super easy … I bring my pc on my board when ridding ?
I guess I need to buy a waterproof android phone and always have it on me ? Will gps speed be logged as well ?

AS far as i understood Benjamin in the Video: Not yet. But he ist working on it :blush:

GPS speed is used I think, the new features for logging look really good!