Originally Posted by
irgo
is kinetic have rpm log? That can be read on pc?
Currently Kinetic speed controller does not log rpm data, we only log motor and speed control power board surface temperature.
The motor temperature sensor is mounted on the Hall sensor board so its monitoring the temperature inside the motor and not the winding temperature Inside the motor coils maybe 20-70 degree higher then the sensor board temperature.
If you heat the motor up fast and you get a motor temperature reading of 170 degree F the windings may actually be 220 - 250 degree F.
On power up we also log the battery voltage but this data is not available for pc download.
One design challenge is that some of the very fast frame rate transmitters send PPM information to ESC at a frame-rate of 3 milli seconds and flash memory devices require at least 5 milli seconds to write logging data, so we have to overcome some these timing issues.
We have discussed adding more parameters for logging but that will be in future updates ( may require hardware update also) as we use an external flash device for data storage and the amount of data storage is limited by the size of the memory device and not limited to the micro-controller, so we have plenty of room to grow in Kinetic design platform.