Hi there,
I know it's not strictly quadcopter related, but I built an electric scooter and used a HobbyWing 80A UBEC ESC as the speed controller. I worked wonderfully and didn't even get hot until one day I decided to try out the brake feature on it. They are extremely powerful and stopped my in about 1 meter! Weirdly though I had this problem straight after I used them for the first time, the esc would only spin the motor when the throttle was about half way and then I could use the other half just as I would normally use the whole range. Think this makes sense? I could still use it but it meant I accelerated twice as fast as I only had half the range in which to control speed. I am using an arduino to generate the pulses so at first I thought that was the culprit as it was a cheap clone, but I tried it on a small quadcopter ESC and it worked just like it used to without a problem. I did notice that one of the capacitors look damaged but I don't think that would generate the issue described. I would ideally not want to have to buy another one as I am on a tight budget
Any help apreciated
I know it's not strictly quadcopter related, but I built an electric scooter and used a HobbyWing 80A UBEC ESC as the speed controller. I worked wonderfully and didn't even get hot until one day I decided to try out the brake feature on it. They are extremely powerful and stopped my in about 1 meter! Weirdly though I had this problem straight after I used them for the first time, the esc would only spin the motor when the throttle was about half way and then I could use the other half just as I would normally use the whole range. Think this makes sense? I could still use it but it meant I accelerated twice as fast as I only had half the range in which to control speed. I am using an arduino to generate the pulses so at first I thought that was the culprit as it was a cheap clone, but I tried it on a small quadcopter ESC and it worked just like it used to without a problem. I did notice that one of the capacitors look damaged but I don't think that would generate the issue described. I would ideally not want to have to buy another one as I am on a tight budget
Any help apreciated