ORIGINAL: DaveL322
Joe,
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Before answering the questions......your Emotion needs nothing to fly Intermediate....leave it alone.
For your questions -
1. ''Proportional'' should mean the amount of braking is incremental based on the amount requested. . . . I believe some of the Schulze airplane ESCs have proportional braking (adapted from the car ESCs) that can be programmed so full idle is more braking than 1 click above idle, and 2 clicks above idle is the least amount of braking, and 3 clicks above idle would be the slowest possible idle
3. For me, I have a 3 position switch that is set for brake (normal flying), slowest possible idle (windy weather), and fast idle (stall turns and spins). I can always add throttle whenever I don't want the brake.
4. I don't think any of the ESCs will engage the brake if they are set for lowest possible idle (I know 100% the Castle will not).
Regards,
Dave,
a) I promise to leave my Emotion as is and continue to practice, practice, practice.
b) Aren't 1 and 4 above contradictory? If an esc has proportional brake then won't it brake even with a slight idle set, just not as hard?
c) On my 12X I am experimenting with using Prog Mix 3 to create a thrott - thrott mix allowing idle, low, high, but I can only get Pos 0 and Pos 1. Is there some trick to getting 3 positions to appear on the mix page?
Thanks again for sharing your experience!
Joe