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nick_a, on 13 September 2011 - 07:33 PM, said:
Might we see the original for comparison?
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13 September 2011 - 06:30 PM
Breezemont, on 13 September 2011 - 02:46 PM, said:
Have you guys seem this?
In Topic: Cant set outputs on new board
10 September 2011 - 02:40 AM
Rusty, on 10 September 2011 - 01:58 AM, said:
Greetings,
The ESCs arrived, and they worked just fine for me
(just kidding)
I put connectors on one of them to match my copter, and substituted it for an existing Plush 18A. As Gary saw, it just gives the fast beeping which indicates that the throttle isn't at minimum. No amount of EPA changing would make the CC output low enough to make it arm.
I checked the programming, and it was exactly as I would have set it, so no problem there. One of the 4 did have the defaults, but I changed it to what it should be. That wouldn't have been a problem until the battery got too low and went into cutoff
Since it appeared to be a calibration issue, I grabbed my terribly inaccurate HK servo driver, and set it to 2.0 ms. Power up gets two beeps, reset to 1.0ms and I got one beep. I then tried it again on the copter, but no change.
Next, I set the upper limit to 2.0 ms, and the lower to 1.1 ms, for the cal, and that worked fine with CC, though it started later than my other motors.
Finally, I did my normal cal. I have a motor testing board that will do the cal for me automatically, using 2ms and 1ms. Once I did that, it appears to be working just like all the other motors as far as starting level and operation. I also did the other 3 ESCs with the same cal, but since I don't have connectors on them, and no motor is connected, it was sort of "in the blind" (or deaf) since you can't hear the tones to confirm that it did it.
Bottom line, just a calibration issue, and no problems with the "new" ESC variety. Funny thing is that I pulled out an old 10A Plush to see if it was different, and it's completely different, I mean that none of the chips are even in the same locations. It's probably a few years old though. I have some other new 10A Plush units that are the same as Gary's.
Rusty
The ESCs arrived, and they worked just fine for me
(just kidding)I put connectors on one of them to match my copter, and substituted it for an existing Plush 18A. As Gary saw, it just gives the fast beeping which indicates that the throttle isn't at minimum. No amount of EPA changing would make the CC output low enough to make it arm.
I checked the programming, and it was exactly as I would have set it, so no problem there. One of the 4 did have the defaults, but I changed it to what it should be. That wouldn't have been a problem until the battery got too low and went into cutoff
Since it appeared to be a calibration issue, I grabbed my terribly inaccurate HK servo driver, and set it to 2.0 ms. Power up gets two beeps, reset to 1.0ms and I got one beep. I then tried it again on the copter, but no change.
Next, I set the upper limit to 2.0 ms, and the lower to 1.1 ms, for the cal, and that worked fine with CC, though it started later than my other motors.
Finally, I did my normal cal. I have a motor testing board that will do the cal for me automatically, using 2ms and 1ms. Once I did that, it appears to be working just like all the other motors as far as starting level and operation. I also did the other 3 ESCs with the same cal, but since I don't have connectors on them, and no motor is connected, it was sort of "in the blind" (or deaf) since you can't hear the tones to confirm that it did it.
Bottom line, just a calibration issue, and no problems with the "new" ESC variety. Funny thing is that I pulled out an old 10A Plush to see if it was different, and it's completely different, I mean that none of the chips are even in the same locations. It's probably a few years old though. I have some other new 10A Plush units that are the same as Gary's.
Rusty
On the esc that had the default setting, I set that just to see if that was the problem.
On the programming side, was there anything that i could of did to fix them without any Special equipment??
Thanks for all the help.
Gary
In Topic: Cant set outputs on new board
09 September 2011 - 08:17 PM
c2po, on 09 September 2011 - 08:00 PM, said:
BTW, it looks like that "black chip" (A226L) is just a 22uF tantalum capacitor, the same as the 22uF yellow one on the left ESC, and the 3.3V voltage regulator above it is just in slightly different package.
So I really don't see any dramatic differences in the elements.
But of course a firmware might be completely different.
So I really don't see any dramatic differences in the elements.
But of course a firmware might be completely different.
Rusty will get them and they will probably work just fine for him, but we will see
In Topic: Cant set outputs on new board
09 September 2011 - 07:51 PM
c2po, on 09 September 2011 - 07:43 PM, said:
Sorry, probably a language barrier, since English is not my native language...
, i need all the help i can get 
