giles123

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Need your help in solving my problem, Burned 2 Castle 80HV2 ESC’s in few days. My setup is Pletty Advance with 20.5x14.5 Falcon V2 on JL Neptuno using Rhino 4900Mah batts. I have been using the CC 80HV2 for more than 50 flights suddenly deadstick, when I land the plane it has burning smell and no power. ESC looks normal but it has a strong burned smell. Plug my new CC 80HV2 the next day and flew 6 flights on my 7th flight motor skeech after few minutes of flying. I landed and check the temp of the ESC and Motor, temp is normal. Restored the settings to factory setting and reprogramed the ESC again, flew the plane 4 mins and plane got deadstick again. The ESC has no burned smell and has normal temperature. My settings was 10 degress on the timing and 8khz on the PWM. My friend told me that timing should be 20 degress and PWM should be on the outrunner mode.

I already ordered Futaba MC9100A ESC, but I wanted to fix this problem before installing the new ESC’s.

Thanks guys.

Walt Thyng

My Feedback: (9)

first off it would help to know how many amps you are pulling. Your PWM setting of 8 is optimal for sport and mild aerobatics. Timing is a matter of choice. To much advance could lead to the motor overheating, but probably not the ESc. I'd sooner think you've got a cooling problem. My experience is the the CC HV series are quite sensitive to overheating.

I don't remember ever seeing an inrunner/outrunner selection on an /esc. Number of poles, yes. I've has some problems in the past with pole count on Hacker/Pletty motors.
Walt

Jetdesign

My Feedback: (8)

You MUST make sure you are getting advice from guys running Castle ESC's. If you look, you will find that recommended settings for some motors have an asterisk (*) saying the the settings are different on Castle ESC's.

Typical settings for a Castle ESC and pattern flying use are for LOW timing (5 degrees) and Outrunner or 8khz on the PWM.

The Castle ESC WILL AUTOMATICALLY ADJUST TIMING as it sees fit. When you set the timing to low, this is not an absolute setting. If the ESC sees opportunity to run at 20 degrees efficiently and effectively, it will do so.

I was talking to a guy at a contest a few weeks ago who had problems with screeching and operability, and people were telling him to ADVANCE his timing. If you read the Hacker motor specs, it says something like 20 degrees for the timing. THIS IS NOT THE PROPER SETTING FOR CASTLE ESC's. You should start with LOW timing and adjust from there, if need be.

Adjust your settings to LOW timing, 8KHZ pwm, 20% brake, SOFT motor start, LOW throttle response.

The Advance is technically an in-runner, but it shares some similar operating parameters as an outrunner.

giles123

My brake setting is 30% and soft start. I downloaded the data logging of my ESC before is broke down, its here in my excell file can you interpret it. Saw the graph in the castle link the maximun amperes is 100, max temp 116
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# Graph Data - 6 Sessions - Saved Sunday	July 22	2012
# Start Of Session - Sample Time: 1.000
# Reset Source (Cause of reset): Normal Boot-up Sequence	255
# Idle Times:
Throttle	Power-Out	Voltage	Ripple	Current	Temperature	Speed
True	True	True	True	True	True	True
0.9702	0	41.2	0	0	84.1	0
0.9702	0	41.2	0	0	84.1	0
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0.9702	0	41.2	0	0	84.1	0
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1.4796	37.647	41.2	1.268	6.4	85.7	30610
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1.5893	58.431	41.41	2.113	16	87.9	41582
1.7225	85.882	40.36	2.113	44.7	89.5	57512
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1.699	80.392	40.15	1.69	32.7	98.2	55936
1.699	80.392	40.36	1.69	32.7	99.1	55936
1.699	80.392	40.36	1.902	29.5	100.7	56871
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1.6912	80	40.15	1.69	29.5	102.4	56400
1.699	80	40.15	1.057	30.3	102.4	56244
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1.7696	94.51	38.46	0.634	51	106.8	62057
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1.652	71.373	40.36	1.479	16	106.8	53307
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1.6912	80