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Simon Kirby replied to Jeffrey Foster's discussion Tear down of Hobbypower 30A Simonk ESC
"The only benefit would be that the oscillator speed would drift less with temperature.
The oscillators in the Atmega8 and similar parts aren't all that great, and slow down significantly with temperature. This means that the pulse lengths appear to…"
Jan 24, 2016
Simon Kirby replied to Phil Gamito's discussion ESC Recommendations. No EMAX, and no SimonK, as neither work with Pixhawk
May 13, 2015
Simon Kirby replied to Phil Gamito's discussion ESC Recommendations. No EMAX, and no SimonK, as neither work with Pixhawk
"Well, it sounded like from your previous post that the firmware update had resolved the issue, but that you didn't want to try it since it might cause damage. That is fair. I think I have enough Afros for testing, but not that particular motor. I'll…"
May 12, 2015
Simon Kirby replied to Phil Gamito's discussion ESC Recommendations. No EMAX, and no SimonK, as neither work with Pixhawk
"Paul, you sound defeated. :) Does it stop accelerating part-way up the throttle, or just seem not enough at what should be full? Maybe try with a servo tester or direct with the radio and see if it's any different? Maybe it's just endpoint…"
May 12, 2015
Simon Kirby replied to Phil Gamito's discussion ESC Recommendations. No EMAX, and no SimonK, as neither work with Pixhawk
"Hi Bill,
I can't control the EMAX firmware, since I have nothing to do with them. They just borrowed my name for marketing. It sounds like that is a bug that should be fixed in their software, though.."
May 12, 2015
Simon Kirby replied to Phil Gamito's discussion ESC Recommendations. No EMAX, and no SimonK, as neither work with Pixhawk
"Well, it would be nice to get working what isn't, if only for the purpose of avoiding having to maintain lists of what doesn't work. ;)"
May 11, 2015
Simon Kirby replied to Phil Gamito's discussion ESC Recommendations. No EMAX, and no SimonK, as neither work with Pixhawk
"Hi Phil,
The ESC always uses the input immediately following the low-going edge, unless the pulse is of an invalid length (too short or long).
Note that the EMAX units just borrowed my name for marketing but have nothing to do with me. They've never…"
May 10, 2015
Simon Kirby replied to Phil Gamito's discussion ESC Recommendations. No EMAX, and no SimonK, as neither work with Pixhawk
"Hi Phil,
Sorry to hear about your troubles. I'm curious what the problem might be. What motors and battery are you using? Could you maybe post a video of the sync issue occurring, preferably with LEDs on the Afro visible?
I'm not sure what the…"
May 7, 2015
Simon Kirby replied to Max Miller's discussion Throttle issue on simonk 20A HK BlueSeries ESC
"Maybe try a servo tester to each ESC to make sure the outputs are matching? If not, you will want to calibrate every ESC from the same source. Otherwise, the problem must be with the flight controller (perhaps a trim problem?)."
Dec 26, 2014
Simon Kirby replied to Cool Dude's discussion SimonK firmware for the old 3DRobotics ESC.
"Hello! It looks a lot to me like an RCTimer ESC, which is an ATmega8-based Hobbywing clone, likely compatible with the original tgy.hex. I'm guessing by the heat shrink, wire, and sticker being very close to http://0x.ca/sim/esc/RCTimer_CBS002/…"
Sep 23, 2014
Simon Kirby replied to Daniel NIkolov's discussion SimonK ESC issues.
"Hello,
At what point do you believe there is a stall? It seems to me like you just ran out of power or lowered the throttle too far and scraped the ground...am I missing something?"
Jun 11, 2014
Simon Kirby replied to Daniel NIkolov's discussion SimonK ESC issues.
"Hello! You mean with the stick high, it just makes three increasing beeps, and stops? The only explanation for that would be that either the pulse is never going longer than 1460µs (PROGRAM_RC_PULS), or that calibration is turned off in the source…"
Dec 31, 2013