Originally Posted by
masterfo
Thanks so much for that information, i truly appreciate it. I will test it out later however i have a 2 big questions:
1.) when i start the program (on the arduino microcontroller) do i give it neutral pulse only (neutral pulse as in make the pin that the ESC is connected to HIGH for 1500 microseconds) to arm it?
I read somewhere that u need to give it another pulse to activate reverse or something, so do i give it another pulse of 1000 microsecond or some other pulse after or before the neutral pulse?
2.) Second question: how do i control the speed of the motor?
Please help me understand this better:
So because the pulse width is from 1 ms to 2 ms, does that mean that from
1.5ms->2ms pulse, the motor will go FORWARD. And a 1ms->1.5ms pulse will make the motor go REVERSE?
You'll probably need to give it a bunch of neutral pulses for a second or so, this will vary with different ESCs. As for speed control, if 1.5ms is neutral and 2ms is full throttle, 1.75ms would be half throttle. But don't forget that these are all ballpark values, radios have trim and endpoint settings, and ESCs have calibration routines.