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Cool Multi engine speed controls - fixed wing or copter - how do you control them?

My electric aircraft are all fixed wing single engine. I don't fly drones and I don't fly twin engine planes.

You can certainly connect two motors to the same ESC if it will handle the amperage, but then you may have synchronization issues between them. This worked fine in the days of brushed motors but I don't think brushless motors will work well with this set-up.

You can can certainly have two motors with two ESC but how do you sync those? Do you put them on the same channel or do you put them on separate channels? How difficult are these to synch?

And what about things like quads where you are actually using motor speed to steer and maneuver. How are you control these?

Just seems like an interesting topic for a discussion