ORIGINAL: DaveL322
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).
Hi Dave,
Actually Schulze had that function in place for one of the Canadian pilots at the F3B worlds in 2006. We (Adam and I) spent a lot of time working with the pilot (Kim Doherty) and Pletty and Schulze to get a system to work for that application. A normal governor is not fine enough though, Schulze modified the normal governor to give a huge resolution over a very small range so they could adjust the motor rpm by like 10 or 20 revs at a time or something.
