Swordfish ESC's

[drwayne]

A: If you put usb to esc, and Rx batt to esc, no probs.
B: If you put usb to esc, and Rx Batt to usb.. the usb would by default try to charge the rx Batt 5V@150mA
regarding B: If the Rx batt is >5V, chances are the usb may have laid a turd ( browned out ).
W

[drwayne]

Mate, This afternoon I plugged the program board up and made sure I hadn't changed any settings and then tried it out with the DX3S throttle travel at 150% and it seemed to really be ballsy, a lot more than ever, can I over do the travel, should I maybe play around and start with smaller trials, eg. 120%-130%? When trying the 150% dry in the boat, I did notice things got a little warm in just a few pumps of the throttle.

Whatever you set as wot on Tx, the script will see as 100% travel.
If you try to be smart and hold Th at 80% when setting wot point.. then go to 100% on water.. anything over calibrated end point is seen as end point.. no advantage there.
Test the Bl systems as you would your 1:1 car.. dont go wot for more than a micro second else it could all turn to brown smoke.

if it got hot ibn a few micro spurts,, what's wrong with your setup ?

sent pm also
W

[bill34207]

I'm just trying to recalibrate my sf240hv and I'm following the book on how it's done although the esc keeps going into program mode, the bell's just keep ringing. The book say's to "hold full throttle and turn on esc, there are 3 beeps indicating correctly powered for the setting, then there are 4 long beeps, then I'm suppose to move the throttle to neutral and 2 beeps are suppose to follow indicating the calibration is complete. I seem to just have it starting with 4 beeps and entering the program mode, could this be bacause I've changed the LVC settings from auto to 6's. I only did a recalibration last week without any troubles and after doing that I reprogrammed the esc to increase the timing and set the LVC to 6s. Has anyone else had this trouble?

If you're trying to calibrate throttle end points you're letting it beep too many times and entering program mode.
Hold trigger to full, switch on the esc. After 1 beep release the trigger back to neutral and it will beep again. End point calibration is complete.

[millzee]

If you're trying to calibrate throttle end points you're letting it beep too many times and entering program mode.
Hold trigger to full, switch on the esc. After 1 beep release the trigger back to neutral and it will beep again. End point calibration is complete.

thanks mate, I 'll give it a go

[millzee]

Whatever you set as wot on Tx, the script will see as 100% travel.
If you try to be smart and hold Th at 80% when setting wot point.. then go to 100% on water.. anything over calibrated end point is seen as end point.. no advantage there.
Test the Bl systems as you would your 1:1 car.. dont go wot for more than a micro second else it could all turn to brown smoke.

if it got hot ibn a few micro spurts,, what's wrong with your setup ?

sent pm also
W

Thanks mate, I really appreciate the help given.

[sailr]

Never got hold of her. I don't believe I ever got her email from you in my PM's. I used to have her email but lost it when one of my past computers died.

Could you send again please?

Jim what did Michelle say?

[clarkm]

I too have been having trouble with throttle setting, the instructions say when you get a red light you have full throttle am I reading this right and what red light?

[drwayne]

What cells, motor etc ?
What Tx/Rx ?

W

[clarkm]

tx/rx, motor all stock with UL-1 hydro, lipo's venom 2s, 7.4v 5000mah 50c.

I never know if I'm getting full throttle, were should the trim be when I set it...the instructions say "When running at the calibrated max throttle, the red led on esc wil be blinking to indicate the esc is giving max throttle." There's a red light on esc?

[drwayne]

tx/rx, motor all stock with UL-1 hydro, lipo's venom 2s, 7.4v 5000mah 50c.

I never know if I'm getting full throttle, were should the trim be when I set it...the instructions say "When running at the calibrated max throttle, the red led on esc wil be blinking to indicate the esc is giving max throttle." There's a red light on esc?

What model esc ? That red led sounds T180 !

[Chrisg81983]

There is a tiny red light on bottom of 240 took a while to find as it was not reaching 100% throttle Michelle from Hifei told me to raise endpoints and there it was

[clarkm]

What model esc ? That red led sounds T180 !

I have the 120a model, do you know were the throttle trim should be when setting the range?

[drwayne]

Set both fwd and rev at 100%
Is your Rc spektrum ?
if so you need to use this procedure to set the throttle ranges
Turn all on... let it bind.. turnit off.
within a minute .. hold th 100% on trigger, powerup esc and rx..
There's a delay with spektrum if not bound recently which is known to limit Th range.
After this 2nd powerup the esc will 'play' a quick set of tunes from motor, pause, then play 2...2...2...2
Somewhere in middle those 2...2...2...2 you should release Th back to neutral

hope this helps.
If not.. keep asking !

W

[Chrisg81983]

Do exactly as w said as spectrum was the only rx that was limiting my throttle range but if that don't work mine worked at 114 THIS IS FOR SPECTRUM ONLY AND I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOURS all you half to do is power up system give full throttle for a short millisecond if light does not turn on raise endpoint and repeat step one and so on I like to use a low cell count batt this way motor does not rev at too high of rpm while the endpoints will not change I use a 4 s wit a 910 kv

[clarkm]

Thanks guys it's great to have a forum to learn these things I'l let you know how I make out but I don't think my Swordfish 120 has the LED light?