abe_79 wrote:
After speaking with James from Esprit Model, we are both baffled as to why the spirit does not allow the esc to arm. We connected the esc directly to receiver pin 1 and unassigned a throttle channel in the spirit software so that the spirit software/fbl wouldn't look for a throttle output. We still could not get the kontronik esc to arm. I swapped receivers but was still unsuccessful. The only time i could get the esc to arm with the spirit and rx connected via EX bus was when i completely remove all servos except for the tail servos. If i plugged in any of the cyclic servos, the Spirit would prevent the esc from arming. So he's asked that i send the spirit in to be checked out unless someone can help determine the problem i am having. This unit including all the electronics are new never used.
Thanks
Abc_79, I had the same problem with my Castle Creations Phoenix 160 ESC. It took some time before I finally got the ESC to arm. The key for me was 1st, find out what your transmitter MS range is from low to high stick. This is what the ESC looks for from the Spirit when you are initializing it. Next calibrate your ESC's throttle (if yours can be done) so the ESC knows where high and low stick is on your transmitter. Then providing you "successfully" got that done, make sure the Spirit's throttle setting at low stick is set to "0" or lower if necessary, and the high stick setting is at 100%. Lastly go into the Spirit's software where you can adjust the MS at low and high position and make sure it is within the ESC's MS range. As soon as I made the adjustment to within the ESC's MS range, the motor armed right away.
It is my understanding that once the initial "calibrating" is done in both the ESC and the Spirit, then by matching the MS's on both units, they are in sync and the ESC will then arm the motor.
Hope this helps.