CodeChief
(Tony Wall)
June 20, 2016, 8:21pm
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Similar to the RC calibration but with the range the joystick transmits, it’s better to program the ESCs directly and forget trying to calibrate via APM…
After some more experience I’ve learnt the best way to calibrate the ESC is to NOT calibrate it! Use a firmware tool which is easy to use (e.g. BLHeli Suite or RapidFlash) and set the minimum and maximum within the range of your transmitter, which you will see on the RC calibration screen. For example for Taranis X9D we always have 982-2006 as the range with 1496~1500 at the centre.
You should add some PWM buffer at the top and bottom to make sure you can stop the motors and get full power or t…
Also regarding the overall “PWM” (simulated) range sent from the joystick read this:
Ground Control Software
APM Planner 2.0
Hey @billbonney, Now I’m seeing poperly the channels. I have fixed channels and parameters related to each RC channel values. I think that when I tried to calibrate the RC, ~1500 PWM values were set as min and max to RC1&2, so I could not...