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Castle Edge 50 & Spirit Pro Throttle Calibration
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Author:  ghenders [ Thu 27. Oct 2016 2:22:50 ]
Post subject:  Castle Edge 50 & Spirit Pro Throttle Calibration
I know that has been asked countless times before, but I am at wits end trying to setup my Chase 360 with a Edge 50 esc & the Spirit Pro. I have adjusted my DX7s so that in the Diagnostic tab it shows 100% at full throttle and 0% at low throttle. I have then gone into the Governor settings and adjusted the Min & Max throttle to 1200us and 1900us. I then tried to power on with full throttle on the Tx and tried to increase the Tx throttle endpoints higher to get it to arm. What am I doing wrong? I want to use the governor in the ESC NOT the Spirit. I think I am making this harder than it should be!!!!!
Author:  abe_79 [ Thu 27. Oct 2016 3:23:02 ]
Post subject:  Re: Castle Edge 50 & Spirit Pro Throttle Calibration
I'm having the problem with my Kontronik esc. I've tried everything u set the sun and ended up shipping mine back to see if there was something wrong with my fbl. One thing I found was that I was able to arm the esc when was connected directly to the rx and the fbl was not connected. Try that and see if you can get it to arm.
Author:  Dosen [ Thu 27. Oct 2016 11:58:05 ]
Post subject:  Re: Castle Edge 50 & Spirit Pro Throttle Calibration
ghenders wrote:
I know that has been asked countless times before, but I am at wits end trying to setup my Chase 360 with a Edge 50 esc & the Spirit Pro. I have adjusted my DX7s so that in the Diagnostic tab it shows 100% at full throttle and 0% at low throttle. I have then gone into the Governor settings and adjusted the Min & Max throttle to 1200us and 1900us. I then tried to power on with full throttle on the Tx and tried to increase the Tx throttle endpoints higher to get it to arm. What am I doing wrong? I want to use the governor in the ESC NOT the Spirit. I think I am making this harder than it should be!!!!!

0-100% in diagnostics is good. Then calibrate endpoints for ESC. For Castle, in Spirit bring Max throttle setting down, meaning closer to 1500 us and Min value up, again closer to 1500 us. Then power on with high stick on tx and raise max throttle value in Spirit until you here ESC beep. Bring stick down, now decrease min throttle value in Spirit software slowly until you here the ESC beep again, now it will be a chime indicating that it is armed since low position has been seen by ESC. So... don't use tx endpoints for ESC calibration since that changes 0-100% in diagnostics use Spirit Max-Min setting.

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Author:  Coco66 [ Thu 27. Oct 2016 13:43:09 ]
Post subject:  Re: Castle Edge 50 & Spirit Pro Throttle Calibration
Do you use satellites or full receiver?

In case of satellite... did you assign the throttle channel in the channels window? If you don't, the throttle signal will not get sent through the AUX port so it will never reach the ESC.

If you use a full receiver and you don't need the Spirit Governor... plug the throttle directly in the receiver and totally forget about the Spirit throttle settings in Diagnostic or channel or governor screens.
Author:  ghenders [ Thu 27. Oct 2016 22:55:29 ]
Post subject:  Re: Castle Edge 50 & Spirit Pro Throttle Calibration
I use two satellites. What should I see in the Spirit software to ensure that the throttle channel is indeed assigned? I do see movement in the diagnostic window when I move the throttle to min & max, but I assume that does not mean it is communicating with the ESC??
Author:  ghenders [ Thu 27. Oct 2016 23:31:13 ]
Post subject:  Re: Castle Edge 50 & Spirit Pro Throttle Calibration
Here is my current setup per the Receiver Channel Mapping window
Function Channel
Throttle 1
Aileron 2
Elevator 3
Rudder 4
Gyro Gain 5
Pitch 6
Bank unassigned

I have two Sats with a Spektrum DX7s Tx. What channel number should throttle be??
Author:  Coco66 [ Fri 28. Oct 2016 6:59:55 ]
Post subject:  Re: Castle Edge 50 & Spirit Pro Throttle Calibration
Looks fine.

The easy test, if you doubt if the Spirit is outputting the throttle signal to AUX or not, is to plug a servo there, instead of plugging the ESC, and see if it moves when you change throttle.
Author:  Dosen [ Fri 28. Oct 2016 7:25:28 ]
Post subject:  Re: Castle Edge 50 & Spirit Pro Throttle Calibration
Coco66 wrote:
Looks fine.

The easy test, if you doubt if the Spirit is outputting the throttle signal to AUX or not, is to plug a servo there, instead of plugging the ESC, and see if it moves when you change throttle.

+1, if you get movement then the problem is that you didn't get the ESC to arm.

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Author:  Adrian [ Fri 28. Oct 2016 20:09:30 ]
Post subject:  Re: Castle Edge 50 & Spirit Pro Throttle Calibration
I just had a look into Castle Link and clicked on the ? Mark near Vehicle Type as well as Throttle Type.
Vehicle Type Helicopter and Fixed Endpoints or Governor Mode are using fix End Point values, no Calibration possible or required.

Range values are pending if you enabled Autorotation in ESC or not:
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Endpoints with Auto-Rotate disabled: <1.2ms Arm/Motor Off, >1.9ms Full Throttle.
Endpoints with Auto-Rotate enabled: < 1.06ms Motor Off/Arm/Reset slow spool-up, 1.06-1.2ms Motor Off, > 1.9ms Full Throttle
Just to clarify: 1.2ms (Milliseconds) equals 1200us (Microseconds)

Translating to Spirit Setup, if ESC connected to Spirit, with an extra +/- 40us cap, enter the following into Spirit for min max range:
If Autorotation in ESC enabled: min: 1020 / max: 1940
with no Autorotation in ESC enabled: min 1160 / max 1940

Looking at this, you might got Auro in CC Edge enabled and did not reach below 1060us.
Keep also in mind, reducing value in TX does not send lower values to ESC if connected via Spirit, as min range means min range, a hard limit, even diagnostics shows -10% it will not go lower than min range, in case of Spirit Gov enabled, this is to avoid binding let Gov know defined mechanical limits.

regards, Adrian
Author:  Coco66 [ Sat 29. Oct 2016 11:49:25 ]
Post subject:  Re: Castle Edge 50 & Spirit Pro Throttle Calibration
You are right, in Castle ESC you don't calibrate the ESC to the TX, but the other way around, so somebody does not call it "Calibration". But still, with all ESCs, you need to perform an operation of that type, which is commonly called "calibration", to make the two elements talk "at the same level".

In Castle, in Fixed Endpoints, you also do that operation, call it the way you prefer ))))
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