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Version: 5.0.x {nightly}

I. Prequisities

Hardware​

Check the corresponding controller´s hardware documentation and find your controller pinout. It will be needed in the next steps.

Safety precaution
  • Lift your vehicle from the ground. Allow the motor to spin freely.
  • Secure the vehicle and motor against any movement
  • Power the controller from a battery, do not use a power supply!
  • Do not use a battery without a Battery Management System (BMS)

Wiring Motor​

  • Connect three motor phase wires (order of phases is not essential in this step).
  • Connect motor sensors (if available)

Wiring control elements​

  • Connect the potentiometer to GPIO0
  • Connect the map button to GPIO1 and IOGND
  • Connect powering switch

Wiring

Wiring battery​

  • Check that the powering switch is in the OFF position
  • Check that the potentiometer is in the minimum position
  • Connect battery minus terminal
  • Connect battery plus terminal (sparking can occur)

Software​

Install SWTools​

This guide will refer to SWTools. SWTools is a tool for configuration, tuning and diagnostics of Silixcon controllers. Before you continue, Install the SWTools on your computer.

Setup LYNX credentials​

The LYNX firmware has a security feature that prevents unauthorized access to the controller. To access the controller, you need to fill in credentials in the options of Launchpad.

Lynx credentials are: service:superlynx.

credentials

Useful guides​

In this getting started guide, you will need to use some of the following guides from SWTools:

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If you change a parameter in the controller, it takes immediately in action. But you must save the parameters to make them persistent after powering off.

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Using USB you can connect to the controller without the need to power the controller. Use this and try to play with emGUI.

Firmware​

This guide presumes, that you have LYNX firmware with all parameters in default value.

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