esc exasperation

[royd]

I have spent hours trying to figure out how to calibrate the throttle on hobbyking blue 30 amp escs. When i go through the process according to the hobby king instructions it does not work. Everyone seems to have a different take on it....and then someone says, i'll be sure to get the programming card next time, but the programming card doesn't do throttle calibration....I am really confused here.

Roy

 

[Motopreserve]

What is the method you are using? Are you connecting the ESCs directly to the throttle output channel of the Rx?

 

[royd]

Yes, one at a time and pushing throttle up full and turn on transmitter and power up.

 

[Motopreserve]

Sounds correct. You wait for the beep, then push throttle down. Wait for more beeps then power cycle?

What exactly is happening that makes you say it's not working correctly?

 

[royd]

The manual says wait for the 3 beeps and turn throttle down then 4 long beeps. It doesn't do that. I can't describe the beeps but it just goes into a long series of programming beeps no matter what i do.

 

[Motopreserve]

It sounds like maybe the firmware on there is not working correctly. Does it do the same thing for each esc???

 

[royd]

Yes. I flashed them with the hobby king card just to be sure. I have never had much trouble from these esc's. This is a real head scratcher for me.

 

[Motopreserve]

Flashed firmware, or changed programming? I've only used cards for programming - but maybe they've advanced that. The firmware was always added by attaching a FTDI style thingamajig - to use a technical term

 

[royd]

I think i will attempt to flash simon k to these hk sec's. Thanks for the responses.

 

[Motopreserve]

That's definitely what you're going to want on there. And doing it yourself, you'll be confident they're all the same firmware.

Good luck. Let us know how it goes.