Wookong compatible ESCs
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DYS and Turnigy Plush both of which are variations of the Hobbywing ESC. Reflash with SimonK's firmware ( http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1513678 )
for the smoothest flight possible with the WKM. The firmware update will work on just about any ESC with an Atmel processor, most of the Hobbywing line has had the Atmel processor although the recent ones have been coming through with a Silabs chip, there is no firmware update for the Silabs versions yet.
Ken
for the smoothest flight possible with the WKM. The firmware update will work on just about any ESC with an Atmel processor, most of the Hobbywing line has had the Atmel processor although the recent ones have been coming through with a Silabs chip, there is no firmware update for the Silabs versions yet.
Ken
danproud
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Does anyone know if this ESC will work for Wookong?
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=19747
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=19747
Just buy the HobbyWing ESCs from EBAY or any dealer you can find them. Found out just a few days that HEliGuy from UK sells them. Hobbywing is the safest bet at the moment and recommended by DJI.
I have now tested my Quad and Hexa with Hobbywing 60A (FunFly with BEC, red wire disabled from servocable) and it works much better than the Kontronik Koby. Hobbywing 60A is fairly large in size. Much fatter than the 40A koby but about the same length.
But it seems that the availability of counter escs are very very limited especially if you need anything bigger than 30A.
I have now tested my Quad and Hexa with Hobbywing 60A (FunFly with BEC, red wire disabled from servocable) and it works much better than the Kontronik Koby. Hobbywing 60A is fairly large in size. Much fatter than the 40A koby but about the same length.
But it seems that the availability of counter escs are very very limited especially if you need anything bigger than 30A.
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DucktileMedia
Drone Enthusiast
No one mentions Maytech. I keep hearing good things about them and I use them now with my non-DJI hex with zero problems to date.
This whole WKM trend still worries me. There are just as many "what the hell happened" comments as there are with MK. I have seen enough videos of $4-5k helis lost under the DJI. I'm not overly thrilled at the risk I would be taking but for some reason I want one too. I am starting to believe there are some unknown forces at hand that randomly effect our flight controllers.
This whole WKM trend still worries me. There are just as many "what the hell happened" comments as there are with MK. I have seen enough videos of $4-5k helis lost under the DJI. I'm not overly thrilled at the risk I would be taking but for some reason I want one too. I am starting to believe there are some unknown forces at hand that randomly effect our flight controllers.
BorisS
Drone Enthusiast
japp i can back that up. Have them on my hexa and i am very happy. Have it running since beginning september an no probs with them.
I'll let you know how the Maytechs work in a day or two, as soon as I get a chance to install the set that just arrived in my CineStar 6.
From what I've seen so far a large part of the "what the hell happened" problems are pilot error or build error. I've been flying a WKM since the first 20 arrived in the USA and have not yet had a single problem that can be directly liked to the WKM. I acquired another WKM shortly after the first and it is now on its second frame having replaced it with a Naza controller on my small quad. A couple weeks ago I got the Flamewheel 450 kit and I've been flying that like I stole it (new video up shortly) and have not had any problems with either of the WKM or Nazas.
One week ago today I had a few thousand dollars worth of gear fall out of the sky and do a substantial amount of damage to some of it and yes it was under my original WKM. Not a DJI problem, a motor stopped spinning in flight and bench diagnostics after the fact discovered a bad ESC attached to that motor. Those ESCs have been on the CS 6 since it was built, but recently were reflashed to firmware that was developed by a couple folks in the multirotor community. Obviously there isn't nearly the QA on that code that there is on what comes on the ESC and many of the "failsafe" features of the orignal code aren't present in the reflashed firmware either. I knew full well the risk I was taking by using it and I accepted that risk, ultimately I believe it was at least partly, if not fully to blame for the failure of the ESC and resultant crash. I'm now in the process of replacing all of the reflashed ESCs I have, I'm no longer willing to take that risk to either my equipment or anyone that might happen to be nearby should such a failure happen again.
I have complete faith in the DJI Wookong-M controller and have no problem flying either of the ones I own with camera gear hung underneath. It's the rest of the parts that are often the "unknown" in the equation and those are what I will not trust my gear to again. Someone asked me not too long ago why I spent so much $ on AXI motors for the CS6 when I could have bought RCTimer motors for a lot less. My answer comes down to this, trust and product reliability. You get what you pay for and it's just not worth trying to save a few bucks here and there if it increases the potential to cause hundreds or thousands of dollars in damage should the low buck part fail.
My $.02
Ken
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DucktileMedia
Drone Enthusiast
Good info. Thanks for clarifying your disaster as I still have flightmares with your images in mind. The Avroto/maytech combo has been reliable so far. I am running all 3s batteries and would like to maintain my 12" props. But yes, please chime in on the maytechs. thanks.
BorisS
Drone Enthusiast
I would say its really time for DJI to step it up a notch. ESCs not working or not working on certain ports are coming up more often. They should really start making a list of ESCs working or just loose the line that WKM works will all counter ESCs.
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Well I don't and neither should you. We had one very expensive turbine heli equipped with DJI ACE waypoint go absolutely crazy last september. Damages where in thousands of euros. The heli lost all of it controls basically just 20 or so seconds in to the flight. Before the crash it had been flown over 10 hours.
Anyway they fall and fail all but the worst part is that DJI newer supplied any service report once they returned the so called "serviced" units. This is typical for them. I have sent many of my DJI units back to them and newer received any service reports.
I got the CineStar back in the air tonight with the Maytechs, WOW! Absolutely the best setup I've flown with the WKM controller so far, smooth, quiet and steady. I've used DYS, Turnigy Plush, and Exceed Proton ESCs with WKM and the only setup that comes close to the Maytechs is the DYS with reflashed firmware, but given the events of New Years day at the field flying on the reflashed ESCs, I have to give them low marks for reliability.
Only had one 5 minute flight by street light, light of the full moon, and the dual green LED strips down two arms but it looked far steadier than anything I've tried so far on a large multi. I also went back to the 11 x 5 Graupner props, partly because I know how well they flew on the CS in the past and partly due to breaking a couple props in the crash and not having enough spare APC thin electrics to replace the broken ones.
Test flight exceeded expectations even with the CoG being off siginificantly due to the camerra mount not being mounted on the frame. Tomorrow I'll dial it for this setup and once done reinstall the AV 130 mount, then it will be time for some video. The proof of how much smoother it may or may not be will be in the raw video that comes out of the camera. With the DYS and other ESCs ther was always a certain amount of very slight wobble that I could never quite tune out of the WKM no matter what I did with the gain settings and it showed in the video when in FF. From what I was able to see tonight with the Maytech setup, that wobble is gone. Daylight and a bit of video will prove that one way or the other, but I think the Maytechs properly programmed is a much better setup than the Hobbywing/Turnigy/DYS line of ESCs.
Ken
aerial imagery
New Member
Hi all, does anyone know if these will work with the Wookong?
Tiger Motor 35A ESC flashed with genuine SimonK fast code. No BEC
The reason I ask is that these ESCs are 600mhz and the Wookong output is 400mhz....
Tiger Motor 35A ESC flashed with genuine SimonK fast code. No BEC
The reason I ask is that these ESCs are 600mhz and the Wookong output is 400mhz....