<p dir="ltr">Dave,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thank you for your input. I knew you would have some good insight into Castle. I have always flown them since I got back in. I have fixed the issue by updating the firmware to the latest stable version first, then the latest BETA version published two days ago. The ESC was on fixed endpoints and I reset the transmitter endpoints per Castle's help file. The other thing I did was set PWM to 8 kHz per Hacker's website vs. Outrunner. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I know better than to change more than one thing at a time but I did. I'm not sure what fixed it but everything is working as it should now. Incredible power and a fairly cool motor and ESC even down here in Texas.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thanks again, <br>
Scott</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 30, 2014 9:41 PM, "Dave Lockhart via NSRCA-discussion" <<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I don’t think any ESC manufacturer recommends auto calibrate for performance applications.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Castle instructions advise to plug in at HALF throttle (generally 1.5ms), then reduce to idle to arm. In auto calibrate mode, the low and high values are set at default values….there is no guessing of any kind. To recall, the defaults are 1.35ms for “low” and 1.7ms for “high”. The ESC will not arm until it sees a value less than 1.35ms, and if it sees a value less than 1.35ms, it resets the “low” to match the lower value. Most radios with default endpoint/ATV values are in the range of 1.2ms low and 1.8ms high. After the ESC is armed, it “sees” the throttle range from the lowest value (likely 1.2ms) to the default high of 1.7ms. Going to full throttle after the ESC arms will allow the ESC to reset the high value to something greater than 1.7ms.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Castle and many other ESC brands have default settings that allow the broadest range of users to use the ESC without having to do any programming. Having spent a fair bit of time with Patrick del Castillo and a number of the Castle engineers, they would be quite amused to hear Castle is designed for the sport fliers. Patrick has always had the goal of making ESCs that would provide the best performance with the best motors….he despises any change in code to accommodate “sport” motors if there is a chance of losing any performance on the best motors.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><br>Dave<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> NSRCA-discussion [mailto:<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org" target="_blank">nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Peter Vogel via NSRCA-discussion<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 30, 2014 4:11 PM<br><b>To:</b> Scott McHarg; General pattern discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] ESC Motor Combo<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal">Sounds like a Castle ESC in "Auto" endpoint mode. The correct way to handle one of those is to arm at FULL throttle and then drop to zero throttle, that way the ESC knows the high + low end points. If you arm at low then it "guesses" at the top end point in the first few seconds after it gets a signal above zero, hence a slow advance of the throttle confuses it. (Castles are designed for sport fliers who think a takeoff is full throttle immediately). <u></u><u></u></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Personally, I *hate* the idea of arming a system at full throttle, so with a castle ESC (I think I'm down to 1 of those in my hangar at this point) I set up fixed end points right away.<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Peter+<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Scott McHarg via NSRCA-discussion <<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" target="_blank">nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
<div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue">Hi guys,<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue">I need a little help. My buddy has just recently bought a Mythos 125 and has gotten frustrated with it. The setup is the <a href="http://www.f3aunlimited.com/catalog/product/view/id/661/s/hacker-a60-7xs-v2/category/53/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans","serif";color:#333333;text-transform:uppercase;text-decoration:none">HACKER A60-7XS V2</span></a> and a Castle HV85 ESC. He recently went to this motor so that he could fly 8S packs which he is currently running. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue">Recently, he brought the plane over to the house and wanted me to have a look. Before I dive into it (which I haven't yet) by looking at the logging on the ESC, etc., is there anything wrong with this combination? I've always flown Castle ESCs myself but I remember reading on here not too long ago about how the Q80 and the Castle controller don't really get along. I mainly want to make sure that this doesn't apply to this combination as well. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue">I know there are a ton of variables and again, I haven't begun to dig into it. Essentially, if you start at idle and bring the throttle up slowly as if you were in the air flying transitioning from a down line to horizontal, the RPMs only increase slightly even to full throttle. Two takeoffs were aborted due to this. If you jam the throttle from idle to full throttle, the motor comes alive and performance is spectacular and it will act fine with smooth transitions for a period of time if not the rest of the flight.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue">Just mainly making sure there are no specific hangups with this combo that y'all can think of.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue">Scott<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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