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[SOLVED] Throttle Calibration on Hobbywing 50aV3

Posted: Thu 18. Aug 2016 10:02:32
by kmaluo
I have a Hobbywing 50aV3 and a DX6 tx. Both display throttle in sync from 0 to 100. However the 50aV3 won't enter programming mode unless I up the tx endpoint to about 118. Any suggestions on how to bring that down so the ESC enters setup at 100 so I can accurately set the throttle range?

Re: Throttle Calibration on Hobbywing 50aV3

Posted: Thu 18. Aug 2016 10:22:41
by Adrian
I assume you are using SATs and ESC pluged into Spirit. Have you tried to increase max Throttle range in Spirit? This will raise upper limit towards ESC.
TAB General => Gov/Throttle (Settings) => Throttle Range => Max 1950us

Re: Throttle Calibration on Hobbywing 50aV3

Posted: Thu 18. Aug 2016 10:33:57
by kmaluo
Adrian wrote:I assume you are using SATs and ESC pluged into Spirit. Have you tried to increase max Throttle range in Spirit? This will raise upper limit towards ESC.
TAB General => Gov/Throttle (Settings) => Throttle Range => Max 1950us
Yes, one satellite. No I will do that. Do I still need to calibrate the ESC afted since the Spirit will be matching after I increase the max throttle range? Sorry, still learning.

Re: Throttle Calibration on Hobbywing 50aV3

Posted: Thu 18. Aug 2016 10:45:58
by jgiannakas
kmaluo wrote:
Adrian wrote:I assume you are using SATs and ESC pluged into Spirit. Have you tried to increase max Throttle range in Spirit? This will raise upper limit towards ESC.
TAB General => Gov/Throttle (Settings) => Throttle Range => Max 1950us
Yes, one satellite. No I will do that. Do I still need to calibrate the ESC afted since the Spirit will be matching after I increase the max throttle range? Sorry, still learning.
Yeap just increase the range a bit to get it to recognise max throttle then calibrate. Don't change the range after that though!

Re: Throttle Calibration on Hobbywing 50aV3

Posted: Fri 19. Aug 2016 8:14:44
by kmaluo
jgiannakas wrote:
kmaluo wrote:
Adrian wrote:I assume you are using SATs and ESC pluged into Spirit. Have you tried to increase max Throttle range in Spirit? This will raise upper limit towards ESC.
TAB General => Gov/Throttle (Settings) => Throttle Range => Max 1950us
Yes, one satellite. No I will do that. Do I still need to calibrate the ESC afted since the Spirit will be matching after I increase the max throttle range? Sorry, still learning.
Yeap just increase the range a bit to get it to recognise max throttle then calibrate. Don't change the range after that though!
Thank you. So I'm trying to get from the 6 beeps that indicates 6 cells and armed, to two beeps indicating programming mode and stick at 100%. Max throttle was at 1900µs, and increased all the way to 2140 before the 6 beeps changed to constant beeping which just indicates the stick is not in the bottom position when powered on. 2130µs activates the 6 beeps. Not sure what to do next. I know if I up my TX throttle end point I can trigger programming mode. Not sure what to do next.

Throttle Calibration on Hobbywing 50aV3

Posted: Fri 19. Aug 2016 9:56:11
by jgiannakas
Ok a couple of things for you to try:

1. Reset the ESC to factory settings

2. Set the gov end points to the default values

3. Calibrate your transmitter to output 0-100 in the diagnostics page on Spirit

4. Then retry calibration. Governor should be switched off (tick box unticked).

It should work straight away :) the range mentioned above is way over the default and way over the values you need in your TX to set end points so there is something miss calibrated.

Re: Throttle Calibration on Hobbywing 50aV3

Posted: Fri 19. Aug 2016 19:01:54
by Adrian
Follow sugested steps. If you wanna monitor whats send to ESC, use a Y Cable and plug a Servo in parallel, servo arm movment represents signal to ESC.

Re: Throttle Calibration on Hobbywing 50aV3

Posted: Fri 19. Aug 2016 20:10:32
by kmaluo
The governor was on. Now I know. Thank you, she's flying better than ever!

Re: Throttle Calibration on Hobbywing 50aV3

Posted: Fri 19. Aug 2016 20:19:44
by jgiannakas
Yeah you need to disable it, calibrate then re-enable it.