Auto calibrating ESC and Arduino
Posted: Mar 14th, 2015, 1:39 pm
For my ROV I am planning on using three ESC to control my motors. So far I played with servos attached to save me some noise in the house.
Just to be sure that I am the right track I switched to the ESC last time to check my code build in node.js and Arduino fermata. I ran into the issue that I did not get my ESC calibrated correctly.
I need to be certain that I send out a PWM signal for "neutral" or either my forward or reverse won't work.
So now I manually send a neutral signal and then switch on the ESC and wait a while and continue with the second and third. This is all easy and no problems on the kitchen table but in the ROV it could be a bit more nasty.
Anybody a smart suggestion on how you solved this?
Thanks.
Just to be sure that I am the right track I switched to the ESC last time to check my code build in node.js and Arduino fermata. I ran into the issue that I did not get my ESC calibrated correctly.
I need to be certain that I send out a PWM signal for "neutral" or either my forward or reverse won't work.
So now I manually send a neutral signal and then switch on the ESC and wait a while and continue with the second and third. This is all easy and no problems on the kitchen table but in the ROV it could be a bit more nasty.
Anybody a smart suggestion on how you solved this?
Thanks.