ESCs in and out of calibration
I have calibrated my 4 ESCs from my 3DR kit on several occassions, mostly via the manual method, but they seem to intermitently indicate that they need recalibration.
I turn on the copter and sometimes, all 4 ESCs initialize nominally, but other times some of them continue to beep as if they need calibration. This varies from day to day. I don't understand why they would be in perfect calibration one day and randomly indicated need for calibration on another day.
Additionally, sometime 3 of the ESCs will beep as if needing calibration, but if I'm patient and don't do anything, they will stop beeping one by one and I can go fly. What would cause the beeping to magically stop?
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DeveloperPermalink Reply by jasonshort on -
Check out the in the field calibration technique. It works great in version 55 and above.
Maybe your throttle is too high? These ESC's don't like to have neutral above a certain PWM.Try and lower it with trims and reset up your radio, esc Calibration.
Jason
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Permalink Reply by Pat on
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Thanks, Jason. I successfully did the field calibration technique on Saturday.
I'm not sure what you mean by having my throttle too high. There were 2 times that I "set" the throttle. Once in the APM Planner, I set the throttle PWM limits along with pitch, roll, and yaw. And then when I calibrated the ESCs, I set the throttle high and then low. When you are referring to "neutral", is that equivalent to the off/low position of the throttle?
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