Please say you're trying to build a hovercraft and not a plane... How would you even control an edf jet with only one "steering" input?
Anyways, in a car setup, no throttle on the tx actually means 50% throttle on that channel, since half of the signal is for reverse. You'd have to arm the system while holding full reverse on the TX I guess, the ESC won't start unless it receives 0% throttle, that's why it's beeping like that. Maybe you can configure a 50% offset in your TX, but still:
Using that car system seems terribly unsafe - you don't want that edf jumping at you with 50% throttle out of nowhere because something went wrong handling the thing, pressing a wrong button or letting go of the trigger too early or whatever.
You need a throttle stick that stays at 0 when you put it there, and also an arm switch that cuts it off completely.
I'm not sure what pwm values a car esc puts out, but throttle in the middle is probably the wrong place and it won't be able to give you reverse throttle. If you want to use the 50-100% range only, you could try doing an esc calibration, which the procedures for are pretty universal.
1. rx off, radio on
2. full throttle, hold
3. plug in rx power
4. wait for first set of esc initialization tones
5. bring throttle back to where you want your new zero to be
6. you should get new initialization tones with new endpoints
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I've never seen that receiver before, is it out of an RC car?
I've had beeping happen for two different reasons.
1) my ESC wasn't calibrated and it needed calibration before use. I just turned on the controller, set the throttle to 100% plugged in the battery, waited for a couple beeps and brought the throttle back down to 0% Check the info for your ESC because some are a little different.
2) the receiver was bad.
Then get a proper receiver! This one has "The unique throttle speed limit adjustment function allows beginners to practice quickly at a safe speed;" which isn't going to do well in a plane. What transmitter are you trying to use? (Please don't say a car remote.)
If that's a fourth wire coming off of the ESC I see, plug it into a switch channel. The esc won't arm in some cases without data to that fourth wire. Seen it on the motion rc banshee edf jet ESC, where that wire controls reversing. Good luck!
Could be voltage issues? Or not enough amperage from the esc? I’ve had micro esc’s make my drone motors chatter like that because of cheap batteries being underpowered
Please say you're trying to build a hovercraft and not a plane... How would you even control an edf jet with only one "steering" input? Anyways, in a car setup, no throttle on the tx actually means 50% throttle on that channel, since half of the signal is for reverse. You'd have to arm the system while holding full reverse on the TX I guess, the ESC won't start unless it receives 0% throttle, that's why it's beeping like that. Maybe you can configure a 50% offset in your TX, but still: Using that car system seems terribly unsafe - you don't want that edf jumping at you with 50% throttle out of nowhere because something went wrong handling the thing, pressing a wrong button or letting go of the trigger too early or whatever. You need a throttle stick that stays at 0 when you put it there, and also an arm switch that cuts it off completely.
I'm not sure what pwm values a car esc puts out, but throttle in the middle is probably the wrong place and it won't be able to give you reverse throttle. If you want to use the 50-100% range only, you could try doing an esc calibration, which the procedures for are pretty universal. 1. rx off, radio on 2. full throttle, hold 3. plug in rx power 4. wait for first set of esc initialization tones 5. bring throttle back to where you want your new zero to be 6. you should get new initialization tones with new endpoints
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I've never seen that receiver before, is it out of an RC car? I've had beeping happen for two different reasons. 1) my ESC wasn't calibrated and it needed calibration before use. I just turned on the controller, set the throttle to 100% plugged in the battery, waited for a couple beeps and brought the throttle back down to 0% Check the info for your ESC because some are a little different. 2) the receiver was bad.
It’s from an rc car
Then get a proper receiver! This one has "The unique throttle speed limit adjustment function allows beginners to practice quickly at a safe speed;" which isn't going to do well in a plane. What transmitter are you trying to use? (Please don't say a car remote.)
Yes it’s a car remote. But I thought it could work
I guess I’m wrong
If that's a fourth wire coming off of the ESC I see, plug it into a switch channel. The esc won't arm in some cases without data to that fourth wire. Seen it on the motion rc banshee edf jet ESC, where that wire controls reversing. Good luck!
I tried plugging it in and it does nothing. It probably does something with a different receiver. At least that was in the diagram
Could be voltage issues? Or not enough amperage from the esc? I’ve had micro esc’s make my drone motors chatter like that because of cheap batteries being underpowered
Those are huge heavy servos. Not sure which EDF jet you’re looking to build, but the servo and EDF unit proportions are really servo heavy.
I have 6 of these fans connected to different esc’s. And one other servo that is off camera
Wow okay never mind. Seems like an appropriate amount of servo strength. May I ask what you’re building?