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
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