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Permalink Reply by emile on March 16, 2012 at 9:09am

You should try this method because I was not able to use authomatic calibration:

1. With NO BATTERY CONNECTED, plug the three-wire plug of the ESC you want to calibrate into the throttle channel of your RC receiver.
2. Turn on your transmitter and push the throttle stick to full up.
3. Plug the ESC into the LiPo battery
4. You will hear a musical note and then 2 beeps. After the two beeps drop the throttle to full down. You will then hear a number of beeps (3 beeps for 3 cell LiPo, 4 for 4 cell, etc) and then a single longer beep indicating the end points have been set and the ESC is calibrated and ready to fly. You may now disconnect your LiPo.
5. Repeat for the other five ESCs.
6. If it appears that the ESC's did not calibrate then the throttle channel on the transmitter might need to be reversed

Order is not important, but you need to do the above operation for all the 6 ESCs.

Also be sure you have NO trim and that your radio is configured for Airplane or Acro, not Helicopter.

Hope this helps,

Emile

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Permalink Reply by benperu24 on March 16, 2012 at 10:49am

    

Thank you Emile for responding and for clarification of the beeps.

 

I did what you said to calibrate the ESC and sometimes the ESC calibre and sometimes no (see symptoms).

 

Kind regards

 

Ben

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Permalink Reply by benperu24 on March 19, 2012 at 2:48am

Hello Emile,

I have two questions for you:
I followed what you said and ESC calibrates itself in disorder, let me explain:

- I tried to calibrate the ESC 1 and it did not work, ESC 2 it did not work, ESC 3 and it works, ESC 4, it did not work, 5 that the ESC did not work, ESC 7 it did not work, ESC Works 8, is this normal?

- When I calibrate an ESC (that works), there is a musical note, two beeps, I drop the joystick down, and there, there is 1 beep, 2 beeps, 1 beep, 2 beeps, the ESC does not calibrate. I vary the joystick up and down and after a few seconds the ESC is "calibrated" .. , Is this normal?

Excuse me for my expression

Ben

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Permalink Reply by emile on March 19, 2012 at 3:36am

Ben what kind of ESCs do you have?

What you say is very strange.

Procedure should be same for every ESC unless there is a problem with your radio.

If you plug the radio in APM and use the planner what are the values you see in Configuration-->Radio Setup? The should be something like 1080 for the minimum and 1920 for the maximum.

Of course every radio has it' own limits, so they could differ.

Emile

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Permalink Reply by benperu24 on March 19, 2012 at 5:36am

Emile the error came from me, I have not translated your response correctly

The error was that I do not connected the wires of the engine on the receiver directly (entry 3, throttle)

This is why I'm sorry!

ESC are calibrated but in the tests, they can't to start, well I put the CLI mode fly, I use my remote control in mode 2.

When I plug my LiPo a melody sounds, followed by 4 beep followed by 1 beep, and more nothing.

Do you know this problem?

Ben

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DeveloperPermalink Reply by jasonshort on March 16, 2012 at 11:06am

Have you ever calibrated an ESC before? One thing that got me at first was the fact that the ESC expected a minimum PWM from my radio. My radio outputted 1120 at low throttle, and the ESC wouldn't accept anything above about1080 before arming.

Jason

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Permalink Reply by benperu24 on March 17, 2012 at 7:52am

Thank you Jason for these details, not I never calibrate of before ESC, I followed the instructions on the site.

I could see what my remote control emits Monday.

I didn't understand (sorry I am beginner in English), the ESC does not accept the values below 1080? or above 1080?

Do I change remote control or I rule my remote control?

Ben

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