Flashing ESCs

[AdamV]

Short Version: Which ESC Flasher for BLHeli on LittleBees

I recently ordered some Little Bee esc's and i'd like to flash them to turn timing to med/high & enabled damped light. There are a lot of ESC flashers available, and they are at least advertised as brand specific (Afro, DYS, RotorGeeks, Etc). Then, there is BLHeli & SimonK specific.

Can i use any usb flasher? I can't seem to find a simple yes/no answer. like this DYS, or this Afro?

Or do i need something that specifically seems one size fits all from getFPV

All my stuff is coming from overseas, so i've got time to figure this out.

Any reccomendations?

 

[pressalltheknobs]

I used an Arduino Nano like this guy....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf3Oj06XzwY

I got this one

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OK0NFPI?redirect=true&ref_=cfb_at_prodpg

from smileshopper. Works ok on Windows 7. Don't think I had to do anything special to get drivers but I need to check.

EDIT: It's possible I had to install drivers from here... I have the expanded .zip so I'm not sure exactly what I had to do. I may have just got then to take a look.

http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm

 

[AdamV]

i looked into that - and i think i'll order it! What i seem to understand is that there are different types of esc... atmel and silabs and the each require different hardware to flash, but the the arduino can do both....?

 

[Craftydan]

Yup, an Arduino nano can do both.

Or to be precise, all 4. It can flash BLHeli to SILabs or ATMEL based ESCs either through direct board connections or down the ESC wire (if the ESC supports it and the BLHeli bootloader is pre-loaded) . . . hence the "4way-if" -- 4 Way InterFace

Beauty of it all, the BLHeliSuite can program the Arduino too, so everything happens in the suite. On the littlebee's, easy as pie. Program the arduino, wire the arduino to the servo-wire, pick "SILABS BLHeli Bootloader (4w-if)", power the ESC, click connect, then click read setup . . . and you're on your way.