This has been a puzzle for several months and has now been solved.
I have been unable to get reverse even though the ESCs have been carefully setup usually using the programming card (e.g the ZTW Shark)
I would occasionally get reverse but the next time I switched on - forward only.
Very puzzling!
A recent very interesting conversation at our Lake side (Thank you Neil and Peter!) suggested a solution. Was I using a standard transmitter stick with spring centring?
No, I wasn't.
Over the years I have usually been putting throttle on non-centring sticks or rotary knobs.
I went home and put the spring back on my transmitter stick and connected up a 40 MHz receiver rather than anything more exotic.
Switch on, Wait 3 seconds. Allow stick to go into neutral position.
It worked - every time! (The ESC seems to need a very closely defined neutral zone to work.)
Thank you my fellow Club members!
The KISS principle is a good one.
David
I have been unable to get reverse even though the ESCs have been carefully setup usually using the programming card (e.g the ZTW Shark)
I would occasionally get reverse but the next time I switched on - forward only.
Very puzzling!
A recent very interesting conversation at our Lake side (Thank you Neil and Peter!) suggested a solution. Was I using a standard transmitter stick with spring centring?
No, I wasn't.
Over the years I have usually been putting throttle on non-centring sticks or rotary knobs.
I went home and put the spring back on my transmitter stick and connected up a 40 MHz receiver rather than anything more exotic.
Switch on, Wait 3 seconds. Allow stick to go into neutral position.
It worked - every time! (The ESC seems to need a very closely defined neutral zone to work.)
Thank you my fellow Club members!
The KISS principle is a good one.
David
Wed Dec 04, 2024 7:26 am by geofrancis
» Robbe Seawolf V2
Wed Dec 04, 2024 7:17 am by geofrancis
» Futaba -868/915mhz equipment
Tue Oct 29, 2024 4:46 pm by tsenecal
» RC Drift Gyro for pitch control
Sun Oct 20, 2024 2:04 pm by geofrancis
» WW2 mini sub build
Thu Oct 17, 2024 2:34 pm by geofrancis
» sonar data link
Mon Oct 14, 2024 4:31 pm by geofrancis
» ExpressLRS - 868/915 Mhz equipment
Fri Oct 11, 2024 8:58 pm by Marylandradiosailor
» Flight controllers as sub levelers
Fri Oct 11, 2024 8:14 pm by geofrancis
» 868/915 Mhz as a viable frequency for submarines.
Thu Oct 10, 2024 3:21 am by tsenecal