One of my motors was damaged in a crash and I have replaced it with a spare. I have confirmed that it is turning in the correct direction for its position. Do I need to do anything else? I'm thinking that calibration is tied to the ESC rather than the motor, so replacing the motor shouldn't require re-calibration, is that correct? Is there anything else I need to do?
I am using the standard arducopter hardware: AC2830-358 / 850kv motor and Arducopter ESC 20 Amp ESC.
Replies
Yes like earlier people said too. No need to calibrate ESC when changing motor. In anyways you are not calibrating motor to work with ESC. You calibrate ESC to know your throttle values.
If you change ESC, ESC configurations get corrupted, you change radio and/or receiver then you need to re-calibrate ESC's.
And also in case if you have big difference on spinning speed while using minimum throttle to start your motors to spin.
just change the motor and go back flying ;)
no need for anything else
No, you are fine when the motor spins in the right direction. Even if the KV is slightly different, ACM will correct that automaticaly.
Best
Christof