ORIGINAL: 2Sunny
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
a) Perfect!
b) Nope. Brake is brake, idle is idle. If the brake engaged to keep the idle from spooling up, that would be governing....different function. The only ESC I know of that will use the brake to govern to a specific RPM is the Castle, when using it for F2B (Control Line Stunt), and then you lose the ability to throttle the motor....it will run at a fixed RPM (full throttle, which CL guys are primarily adjusting power output with the prop).
c) It is 3 position switch, but only 2 positions are engaging a mix. Pos 0 is "off", and the endpoints are adjusted to put the ESC in brake mode. Pos 1 effectively adds a bit of idle trim putting the ESC at low idle (minimum), and Pos 2 increases the mix percentage to put the ESC at fast idle. I can show you the setup on my 12X this weekend at Conyngham.
Regards,