You are the James Bond of RC FPV reviews, love ya work n familiar accent. G'day from WA, aka Western Australia. Normally do quadcopters, but this helps with recent delta wing pwm build, thanks again. Will check for deadband.
Thanks a bunch, Lee! 😃 That reminds me of a product from China I've seen... It's pretty expensive! But it's just a 70mm EDF and probably a servo tester, with an XT60 for connecting a 6s battery! 😂 But damn, that thing blows air hard! 😬 Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
this bit me in the arse recently, 99% of my models have an fc as I couldn't keep a plane in the air without the fc providing support when I first started to fly. Recently realised I pretty much turn off all the support and fly just using my acquired flight skills. So I built a new plane with just a receiver motor and servos and couldn't figure out why their was a dead band on the throttle. after a day of thinking I remembered to calibrate the esc. good info Lee
Great video! It's like you're reading my mind... :DD I have the same problem with my ESC but I thought it was normal. I need to give quite some throttle for the motor to spin and also, after some throttle the motor maxes out before maximum throttle. I don't know if my ESC uses dshot or any other protocol but I will try your method regardless and let you know. (I have fixed wing).
Now your next vid, How to get out of program mode....:) just kidding. good work Lee this is great information for the newer flyers to get the most out of their models.
Another great video from the master. Question: On my T1 VTOL PnP, only the rear motor spins when armed, until I raise the throttle to about 50%, then the front motors come to life. I tried calibrating ESCs in Arduplane, but no joy. Any ideas? Greetings from TN and thanks as always.
Does the position of the throttle trim have influence on this process? I.E. if you move the trim either before or after the initial initialization, how much if any effect is there? You definitely understand electronics better than I, and that is an area that I haven’t checked out, wondering if you have?
How would you do that on a "Dual Brushless" ESC that are sometimes used on helicopters? I succeeded with the main throttle but couldn't get the second channel (yaw) calibrated properly...
I have a few ESC's that this Calibration method does not work. The only thing I can do to use this dead space is to put some sub-trim in for the throttle channel.
I had the wing in my hand and I accelerated it to 100% and with it at that speed I disarmed it, the OSD and all the configuration went away. What do you think about that?
What do you mean you don’t have to calibrate esc’s running digital protocol? What do you mean I’ve wasted hours googling esc calibration and completely missed this. Well that’s my fragile ego shattered just 7 days into the new year…..😂
I started off with 4 channel AM radios that were not adjustable. They had trims for each channel, but you really had to adjust everything mechanically to insure a bump on the slider wouldn’t cause disastrous results when plugging in or turning the airplane on. Didn’t even have servo reversing on the first couple, then computers started coming into the game 😮. On single motor electric planes I don’t remember half of the time to even set motor limits…..amnesia setting in😂
Crystal clear, as usual. Thank you.
Great topic. I get asked about this all the time at the field.
You are the James Bond of RC FPV reviews, love ya work n familiar accent. G'day from WA, aka Western Australia. Normally do quadcopters, but this helps with recent delta wing pwm build, thanks again. Will check for deadband.
Thank you!
So so helpful.
Very informative and helpful video. Thanks for sharing. 🤓
Thanks a bunch, Lee! 😃
That reminds me of a product from China I've seen... It's pretty expensive! But it's just a 70mm EDF and probably a servo tester, with an XT60 for connecting a 6s battery! 😂
But damn, that thing blows air hard! 😬
Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Thanks for uploading this! I think I was one of those who asked you about this 🙂
Thank you.👍👍👍
this bit me in the arse recently, 99% of my models have an fc as I couldn't keep a plane in the air without the fc providing support when I first started to fly. Recently realised I pretty much turn off all the support and fly just using my acquired flight skills. So I built a new plane with just a receiver motor and servos and couldn't figure out why their was a dead band on the throttle. after a day of thinking I remembered to calibrate the esc. good info Lee
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Great video! It's like you're reading my mind... :DD I have the same problem with my ESC but I thought it was normal. I need to give quite some throttle for the motor to spin and also, after some throttle the motor maxes out before maximum throttle. I don't know if my ESC uses dshot or any other protocol but I will try your method regardless and let you know. (I have fixed wing).
Now your next vid, How to get out of program mode....:) just kidding. good work Lee this is great information for the newer flyers to get the most out of their models.
Thanks, all those videos on this from back in the day are never found or watched... Happy flying
Thanks for this video. Do you have the throttle trim in the middle or in the lowest position when doing the calibration?
As @M-H433 said, leave it be. The only time you should be messing with throttle trim is on things like glow and IC engines IMHO... Happy flying!
Thanks!!
Another great video from the master. Question: On my T1 VTOL PnP, only the rear motor spins when armed, until I raise the throttle to about 50%, then the front motors come to life. I tried calibrating ESCs in Arduplane, but no joy. Any ideas? Greetings from TN and thanks as always.
The front ESCs may be set wrong. I'd check them with BLHeli if you are using DSHOT..
Set IAW 4.4 parameters. Yikes, no change. Maybe I should wait until you post your fine tuning of 4.4 for the PnP.
Already have. But that shouldn't affect the motor ranges... Test the motors using Ardupilot... Best of luck
Success! All motors are running as they should. Thanks to both you and Giz Fpv.
Does the position of the throttle trim have influence on this process? I.E. if you move the trim either before or after the initial initialization, how much if any effect is there? You definitely understand electronics better than I, and that is an area that I haven’t checked out, wondering if you have?
Yes. Don't move the throttle trim. Happy flying
How would you do that on a "Dual Brushless" ESC that are sometimes used on helicopters?
I succeeded with the main throttle but couldn't get the second channel (yaw) calibrated properly...
No idea, I've not used one. Best of luck
I have a few ESC's that this Calibration method does not work. The only thing I can do to use this dead space is to put some sub-trim in for the throttle channel.
Please post the make and model of the ESCs you are talking about... Happy flying
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Yeah.. lee taught me about this.. cool...
question friend my fc matek f412 wte suddenly voted all the configuration what do you think
Ports or evertthing?
I had the wing in my hand and I accelerated it to 100% and with it at that speed I disarmed it, the OSD and all the configuration went away. What do you think about that?
That does sound odd, I've never seen that here. Best of luck!
Is it necessary to calibrate every new ESC?
If using PWM, yes.
What do you mean you don’t have to calibrate esc’s running digital protocol? What do you mean I’ve wasted hours googling esc calibration and completely missed this. Well that’s my fragile ego shattered just 7 days into the new year…..😂
I've covered that little nugget in lots of my buuld videos over the past few years so glad this video is raising awareness... Happy flying
I started off with 4 channel AM radios that were not adjustable. They had trims for each channel, but you really had to adjust everything mechanically to insure a bump on the slider wouldn’t cause disastrous results when plugging in or turning the airplane on. Didn’t even have servo reversing on the first couple, then computers started coming into the game 😮. On single motor electric planes I don’t remember half of the time to even set motor limits…..amnesia setting in😂
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