Hobbywing 1060 brushed ESC won't with calibrate FC, but works direct from receiver?

ArduRover Rover 4.0
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I’m using a omnibus nano v6 with a hobbywing 1060 ESC on a toy crawler. The ESC works fine if I plug it straight into the PWM out of my RX.

When I connect it to servo out 3 it will not calibrate when turned on. According to the manual it needs to see a neutral throttle, which according to MP it’s sending 1500 out on the throttle channel. If the ESC doesn’t calibrate it won’t work at all.

Something I noticed is in the boot messages it says RCOut: Brush:1-2 PWM:3-4
Does that mean I should be running the motor on servo out 2?

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Those ESC’s take standard PWM. Set the MOT_PWM_TYPE to 0. You can run the throttle on any channel you want.

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Ok, it works now but I only get forward in manual mode, and it goes in reverse, in circles in auto mode.

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I reversed the motor servo and it drives forwards in auto mode now. The main thing I’m confused about is the PWM out from the throttle channel. I have full range in the RC calibration window. In the servo window it only goes from 1500 to 1900 or so on the throttle channel. I can get forward and reverse now if I power on the ESC with the throttle at neutral, but reverse is really slow, and forward should be faster.

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What mode is that ESC set for?

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Forward and reverse, which is no jumper.

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The main thing is this ESC calibrates every time you switch it on. In the manual it says to keep your throttle neutral. If I power up the ESC at neutral I get forward and very slow reverse. I know it has a much higher forward and reverse speed from when I tested the ESC directly off the RX PWM outs. If I turn on the ESC with the throttle at the bottom, it will give me higher top speed forward, but no reverse.

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I set my throttle up different than most with a reverse switch on the transmitter (neutral at throttle stick low) but let’s take a look at your parameter file.

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crawler.param (14.2 KB)

I wondered if you could put reverse on a switch. Do you do that on the FC or on the radio?

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I’ll take a look at the parameter file later, I want to compare it to one of mine.

Yes, I mixed the reverse switch in the Transmitter. I didn’t like stick neutral on my radio (Taranis/Radiomaster). Perhaps if it had a center throttle spring it would be OK. And it’s actually functional, kind of like how a real car is driven. And, I’m not it in reverse that often and you get full stick resolution either direction.

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You might want to try it with the brake off (ATC_BRAKE)
Looks like you need to do all the tuning.
I would enable crash check. If it hit’s something and keeps churning away you may break something. My Spur gear fails. I have replaced it 3 times but it acts as a good “mechanical fuse” and it’s cheap. Others thought they were upgrading by replacing the plastic gear with a metal one only to have the gearbox fail next :smirk: