Hobbywing Pentium 30a Esc Programming
Hobbywing Pentium 30a Esc Programming Kit
- And an individual battery pack is needed to power the program card when setting the programmable values of such ESCs, please read the user manual of program card for reference. ǏWiring Diagramǐ. The Platinum-150A-OPTO, Platinum-70A-HV, Platinum-120A-HV, Pentium-80A-HV and Pentium-100A-HV ESC use the.
- ESC Programming on Arduino (Hobbyking ESC): Hello Community, I'm going to show you, how to program and use the Hobbyking ESC. I just found a few information and tutorials, which really didn't help me very much, so i decided to program an own sketch, which is very simple to understand.
HBW-PROGRAM-CARD: HobbyWing ESC Program Card (RCX / FlyFun / SkyWalker / Fentium / Pentium) HBW-PROGRAM-CARD Review - USD5.99: MyRcMart.COM: This program card is used to program the following ESC: HobbyWing FlyFun (previously known as 'Pentium' / 'Fentium') HobbyWing SkyWalker HobbyWing Guard (stop production) HobbyWing Sword (stop production) RCX H and G series ESC. RCX Sky Series 20A, 40A Note: This program card is NOT suitable for Platinum series airplane ESC and SimonK Firmware ESC. How to Use It 3.1 Use 'up/down' button to select programmable item, use 'left/right' button to select options of each item; 3.2 Use 'OK' button to save the settings in the ESC. 3.3 Use 'LOAD DEFAULT' button to reset each item to its default setting. Specification 1.1 Size: 92mm (L).
52mm (W). 6mm (H). 1.2 Weight: 26g. 1.3 Input Voltage: 4.8-6V (If the ESC hasn't built-in BEC, you need to use an additional battery to supply the program card) Package includes: 1 x HobbyWing ESC Program Card (RCX / FlyFun / SkyWalker / Fentium / Pentium). This program card can only program the ESC (with HobbyWing firmware), if your ESC flashed with other firmware (eg. SimonK), this program card will not work.
This is a video howto of programming a budget opto ESC 40-50 Amps via tone signal provided by hobbyking.
First of all I would suggest calibrating them. From the eBay page you linked to, It would seem that the ESCs are probably HobbyWing (or HobbyWing clones).
I would suggest finding some spec sheets for HobbyWing ESCs and using that information to calibrate them as well as understand them better. Since they seem to respond to values in the range 800-1800 they probably need to be calibrated. The usual range is 1000-2000. I've had HobbyWing ESCs and there is a way to send the proper min and max values to the ESC. Besides that you could adjust your code to accept values in the range 800-1800 and assume 900 is the centerpoint.
In a sense, you'd be calibrating them yourself via your code. As far as them not operating over 920, it almost sounds like a power issue. You say you are using '3 freshly bought and charged LiPo cells (V = 11.1V)'. Are you in fact using all three at once? I'm not sure how you've wired them up, but here is an example of proper wiring. Following on from, this comes from the thread, where a user was having the same trouble calibrating them.
I bought exactly the same ESCs from eBay and asked the seller for a datasheet. It appears that WaspNest was right, they match Hobywing product.
Here is a link to the datasheet he sent me: Here is the datasheet, referred to above:. There is also the following: A programming card is available: Hobbywing Pentium Series Brushless Speed Controller ESC Program Card.
It should work with these ESC's with no problem. See and Unfortunately the first link has expired, and the second link is to the, but it could be of some use. Looking at the documentation for the it looks like you are reusing the servo library to produce a PWM speed control for your ESC. Although the function page doesn't mention continuous rotation servos, the function page does: Writes a value to the servo, controlling the shaft accordingly.
On a standard servo, this will set the angle of the shaft (in degrees), moving the shaft to that orientation. On a continuous rotation servo, this will set the speed of the servo (with 0 being full-speed in one direction, 180 being full speed in the other, and a value near 90 being no movement). What the function page does say is: On standard servos a parameter value of 1000 is fully counter-clockwise, 2000 is fully clockwise, and 1500 is in the middle. Which would suggest that 1500 would be static, 1000 would be full speed in one direction, and 2000 would be full speed in the other direction. For motors which only go in one direction though, an ESC might change those ranges to maximise the controllability of the motor by accepting a larger range of PWM values, and mapping them to unidirectional speed only. Depending on your ESC, it may be that as you approach 1000, you are reaching the maximum speed, and as you exceed the maximum speed it is capable of the motor shuts off as a protection mechanism.
Ultimately, only the data sheet for your ESC can tell you why your system is behaving the way it is.