Kepler
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Managed to get in a heap of testing with the CA RC controller this weekend. Tested it with quite a few motor and ESC combinations with everything tested working without any issues.
Also tested it with a Turnigy servo speed regulator in between the ESC and CA so that ramp up and ramp down could be individually tuned. With this in place, AGain was set at 300 for quick response to the Regulator with the Reg then doing the rest of ramp work. This worked without an issue and is a very useful addition for swing arm fiction drive designs to smooth out the engagement and disengagement. Probably not needed for direct drive setups though as the AGain tunes the start up ramp quite effectively.
A couple of minor items that could be improved.
Low voltage cut out is only adjustable in whole numbers. This is OK for higher voltages, but RC setups tend to run lower at voltage's and need more resolution on the LVC set point. For example on a 5S setup, 17V is too high to get the most out of the pack and 16V causes the pack to discharge too far. 16.5V LVC suits a 5S pack better.
If an adjustment is made in setup, the power needs to be cycled to the ESC. Unplugging and re-plugging the main CA plug will also reset the ESC. At least then you don't get the battery plug in spark. It would be nice if once you left setup, the ESC would also re set.
I found that most current limit changes also needed a corresponding AGain change. The higher the current limit, the lower the AGain needed to be. This meant that I need to access the Advanced menu every time I made a change to the current setting. Perhaps in the future, current limit settings could also scale AGain at the same time. Alternately Current limit and AGain could both reside next to each other in the normal setup menu.
The above are all very minor and are more of a wish list then a bug report. The LVC is for me the most important item that should be considered.
Also tested it with a Turnigy servo speed regulator in between the ESC and CA so that ramp up and ramp down could be individually tuned. With this in place, AGain was set at 300 for quick response to the Regulator with the Reg then doing the rest of ramp work. This worked without an issue and is a very useful addition for swing arm fiction drive designs to smooth out the engagement and disengagement. Probably not needed for direct drive setups though as the AGain tunes the start up ramp quite effectively.
A couple of minor items that could be improved.
Low voltage cut out is only adjustable in whole numbers. This is OK for higher voltages, but RC setups tend to run lower at voltage's and need more resolution on the LVC set point. For example on a 5S setup, 17V is too high to get the most out of the pack and 16V causes the pack to discharge too far. 16.5V LVC suits a 5S pack better.
If an adjustment is made in setup, the power needs to be cycled to the ESC. Unplugging and re-plugging the main CA plug will also reset the ESC. At least then you don't get the battery plug in spark. It would be nice if once you left setup, the ESC would also re set.
I found that most current limit changes also needed a corresponding AGain change. The higher the current limit, the lower the AGain needed to be. This meant that I need to access the Advanced menu every time I made a change to the current setting. Perhaps in the future, current limit settings could also scale AGain at the same time. Alternately Current limit and AGain could both reside next to each other in the normal setup menu.
The above are all very minor and are more of a wish list then a bug report. The LVC is for me the most important item that should be considered.