Questions tagged [esc]
Use in reference to electronic speed controllers, used with both brushed and brushless DC motors on drones and model aircraft.
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Brushless Motor no datasheets available
Currently I‘m searching for the right motor. I really have problems with this because there are no datasheets for the motors I inspect. Is there a central database for motor datasets or something like ...
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Does all BLHELI_32 ESC supports bi-directional rotation?
Hello im new to drone stuff, im just wondering if any BLHELI_32 is compatible with bidirectional rotation? since blheli 32 software supports bidirectional rotation is it safe to assume that all ...
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How much current can float through all pads of the PDB (Power distribution board)?
I want to buy the „PDB-HEX, 12S“ Power Distribution Board. Are the current values of PDB/current sense resistor and ESC power pads meant for the summarized current of all motors or for each Motor? Why ...
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Using a raspberry pi 4 for motor control
I am fairly new to electronics and am trying to build a drone from scratch as a hobby project. I want a setup where I can control all the motors individually through the software. Through some ...
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LiPo battery voltage keeps dropping when connected to PDB
I have an F450 quadcopter frame with the integrated Power Distribution Board. In order to use this feature, I soldered the battery (XT60) and the four ESC (Dean-T) connectors. I tested the continuity ...
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A2212 1000kv Brushless motor keep beeping and twitching
I have bought an A2212 1000Kv brushless motor and a 30A ESC. I power this setup with a 7.4v 2s 30c 800mah LiPo battery. For the signal, I am using a DIY Arduino receiver and transmitter. When I test ...
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What battery can I use for 1000kv brushless motor, that will be the cheapest?
I am using a 10 x 4.5 propeller for my A2212/13T 1000KV brushless motor with a 30A ESC. What battery will I need that will be cheap to power my motor alongside three 9-gram servos?
Flight time is not ...
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Would appreciate help! What is wrong with the ESC?
Hear the beep when I connect a battery and when I connect a battery and the FC has voltage...
Sounds like there is a voltage drop...but could it also be a new noise?
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Does a brushless motor ESC need thicker input wires than output wires
For this question, I have my own opinion and want to know whether it's correct or not.
We know that ESC use pwm to control speed. For long range fixed wing at cruise speed, ESC may work at a ...
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Uneven RPM output across motors, how to fix?
After enabling the RPM measurement on a Quad-X craft that flips on takeoff, I see that the front motors (#4 and especially #2) consistently deliver higher RPM for the same throttle input. Here are ...
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Turn off beeping of ESC if idle for some time
I have holybro X500 V2 kit with pixhawk 6x, which contains BLHeli S ESC.
I usually have this drone turned on while I'm doing some programming on it. But after some ...
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ESC wiring to FC for wing - 2 or 3 pins?
I'm new to the wing builds and I'm a bit confused. I ordered the kit for the AR Wing Pro, which includes BLDC motor and ESC. The ESC comes with the mandatory 2 power lines and 3 thick lines for the ...
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Can poor soldering of ESC wires lead to low voltage draw from a Lipo battery?
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Would improper soldering of the power wires of my electronic speed controller limit the amount of voltage that my ESC draws from the Lipo battery?
My situation:
I have to solder an XT60 male ...
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Amperage of FC, ESC
There is something I totally don't understand about an amperage.
According to spec. AIO FC has 5 A and 6 A ( 5 seconds). However, sometimes I see in OCD far beyond 5A and 6A. And FC, ESC are OK.
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Esc beeping on first channel
I have a Flysky fai6s transmitter which I used to control my ESCs. When I put the wires of the ESC on channel 1 of the receiver the ESC starts beeping, but on other three channels it works fine.
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BLHELI32 DShot600 or DShot150 is not activated in my ESCs from my code written in c c++ in testing with 3 different ESC
My question is more related to inner working of ESC than coding. Particularly how to activate a particular protocol like DShot600 or Dshot150. Assuming a generic BLHELI ESC has all these protocols. I ...
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How to calculate the ESC and the LiPo?
I would like to know how many amps the ESC needs in order to use my brushless motor, and also which LiPo battery I'm going to need. I want the know how to calculate this, so that I can do it myself ...
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How can I use a Pixhawk 4 power distribution board (PM07) to power an older pixhawk?
I have the PM07 power distribution board designed for the Pixhawk 4 but I currently have a Pixhawk 2.8.4. On the data sheets I can clearly see a 5V output but I am not getting any power from those ...
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Will different brushless motor sizes work with the same flight controller and esc
I recently built a 5-inch quad using:
Diatone Mamba F405 Mk2 F40 Mk2 3-6S 30x30 Stack/Combo (F4 FC / 40A 4in1 ESC)
Motors: iFlight Xing-E PRO 2207 1800Kv Motor with DShot 600 and 4S battery cell. I ...
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Brushless Motor not spinning when controlling with Raspberry Pi, PWM and ESC
I'm currently working on a drone which is controlled by a Raspberry Pi. I try to control the motors by using PWM on the connected ESCs, which is described in many guides and forums. For that I use the ...
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Motor doesn't work, ESC doesn't calibrate
After I figured out why SAFE never turned off, now I'm stuck because my motor won't spin and I can't enter calibration mode of the ESC. After turning on the plane, it does three startup beeps in ...
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Choosing ESCs for an Autonomous Drone
I'm about to build my first drone. I chose the PixHawk 4 with PX4 as a flight controller and the Raspberry Pi Model 3B as the companion computer.
I am not sure about the ESCs yet. So far I'm ...
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Lipo battery with an ESC and a BLDC motor
I'm not sure if I can connect four brushless dc motors to my Lipo battery. I don't know how to calculate it. The brushless motor I have is the Turnigy L2210C-1200 brushless motor (150w) and the Lipo ...
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ESC overload protection at stall current?
I am trying to build, for the first time a drone, on a F330 frame, 30a ESC and 1000KV 2212 motors... But I destroyed 2 ESCs in the process. It literally burned up when the drone falled and the ...
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Brushless Motor Acting Weird
I recently got a brushless motor upgrade set for my RC car (I have previously asked questions about it), and there seems to be something wrong with it...
The steering servo works fine. The brushless ...
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Brushless Motor/ESC Voltage Cut-off
I got an ESC and brushless motor set for my RC car. After I finally got it to work, I put my car back together, but then when I turn on the transmitter and then the ESC, the motor emits a "beep&...
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Brushless Upgrade for RC Car
I was told that if my question was about motors and ESCs than it would be okay to put it on here even though it has to do with an RC car...
I am wanting to do a brushless upgrade for my WLTOYS 12428 ...
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Why is the ESC not giving enough current for my propeller?
So I have a Hobbywing Skywalker 80 amp ESC and Sunnysky X3520-720 that I just did a ground test with a power meter. Results gave only about 31 amps at 16.3V which is way under what I was expected (...
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Dshot 600 ESC is not responding to the transmitter
I'm building a drone with arducopter 2.8 (ArduCopter V3.2.1) and I'm using the DSHot 600 (BLHELI_S) Opto ESC's as my ESC and when I connect the Opto ESC to the arducopter and arducopter to the ...
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How to connect Opto esc to BLDC Motor
I'm using 30A Opto 2-4s LIPo Blheli-S ESC for my drone. And I'm currently confused about how to connect the BLDC motor to the ESC. I found nothing online that currently explains the type of ...
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Are the power connections for BECs of ESCs made in parallel or series with each other?
I see the 5V power pin of BECs all are connected to the flight controller, but within the flight controller, is this registered as a 4 5V batteries in series or parallel? In series would not make ...
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what is the voltage output from the ESCs of drone motors?
the flight controller i am using is a custom one, which is a teensy 4.0 microcontroller. it cannot have more than 3.3V into its GPIO pins. I know I can use the 5V from the BEC of the ESC to power my ...
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One of my motor don't turn if throttle is raised too rapidly
I've recently have an issue with my quad.
One of my motor don't spin if I raise throttle too rapidly.
If i raised it slowly i the motor turn correctly.
Only one of my motor have this issue and i've ...
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ESC shutting down when motor loaded
I have a BLDC motor and a 300 amp ESC, The ESC shuts down after a few seconds at full load. The motor only draws 2 amps at full throttle, full load and the voltage only drops .5 volts. The battery is ...
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Questions regarding drone components
I am wanting to build an ultra-light manned bi-copter from scratch, but I first must learn about the components, which is why I am here. I am working with a 43kv (24s rated, 192 max Amp) 70kg thrust ...
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BLDC Motors not spinning at commanded RPM
I have a F450 Quadcopter frame with BLDC motors of 1000Kv and ESC (simonk) 30A each. I am trying to verify if the bldc motor rpm output at a commanded rpm is same as commanded rpm. I am using ...
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Why isn't my manual DSHOT600 programming of a HobbyWing ESC not responding to direction change?
I wrote a firmware for an STM32L4 board to talk to a HobbyWing XRotor Micro 60A running BLHeli_32.
I can drive each motor indiviudally just fine using DSHOT600 by bit-blasting the signals out of GPIO ...
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Why can't quadcopters handle failure of one rotor?
Ardupilot can detect (and it logs) motor output mismatch. I think detecting in flight motor failure is possible with modern firmware and flight controllers. Then if one rotor fails, why can't we have ...
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Connecting 4 in 1 esc with power module
I have a 4 in 1 iflight esc currently connected to my motors. I am attempting to interface it with my flight controller (Pixhawk 4), which comes with a power module (https://docs.px4.io/master/en/...
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What is Commutation Enhancement in BLHeli_M and what should i set it to?
In the BLHeli_M version of the BLHeli Configurator, theres an Option for Commutation Enhancement. By default its set to Async-PWM but it can be set from 3%-CE to 100%-CE. What does this Parameter do ...
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My esc cuts the motor when I move control surfaces a lot
I finally built my plane and started testing it on my workbench. If I moved the servos a lot (using my transmitter), the motor would cut out, the ESC would play a tone similar to when I first turn it ...
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Wiring a 4-in-1 ESC to an Arduino Uno
I have four brushless motors that I want to control using an Arduino Nano. I was looking at getting a 4-in-1 ESC controller similar to this one on amazon.
At this point in my project, I'm more ...
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Help finding ESC for brushless motor
I'm very very new to hobby electronics however I have studied a bit about basic electronics in school. I have four EMAX 0802 Brushless Motors and I want to drive them with an Arduino Nano. I know that ...
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Why does motor not want to go above 2/3 thrust?
This is related to my past ESC troubles. See link for some flight history.
I tried the recalibration as suggested by ifconfig, which sadly didn't work. But now the motor will not go above 2/3rds ...
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Motor will not go above half thrust. Why and how to fix?
I fixed the esc of my aircraft, but now it won't go above half thrust for whatever reason. Here is a short record of the electronics in the craft;
Crashed twice, broke esc, soldered 3-pin ground ...
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DJI F450 ESC calibration fail
everyone. I am building a DJI F450 clone. I've got everything attached except for the propellers. The Pixhawk connects to my mission planner via USB. The remote controller is paired with the drone. ...
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Is it common to break ESCs?
I'm pretty certain my ESC is broken, so I went looking for some on amazon. I found a decent one for a good price, as well as a 4 pack that was a better cost per unit. I don't really want to have extra ...
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ESC power up beeps sound twice: du-du-du...du-du-du beep-beep
Just recently, my power-up beep sounds have changed. The normal sequence is just du-du-du beep-beep for ESC power, then throttle signal, right?
Now I get du-du-du, pause, du-du-du (again) beep-beep.
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Flight controller or ESCs on Eachine Viswhoop not booting properly
After last flight my Eachine Viswhoop stopped booting properly and arming (link to gfycat with sound). When connecting battery to drone I can hear FC beeping but don't get second set of "beeps&...
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Vibrating like a jelly when takeoff
I have Kotleta 20 UAVCAN ESCs. When I trying to increase throttle, motors are vibrating like a jelly. How can I configure my ESCs via development port? What are best options for non vibrated flight? ...
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