Issue with FrSky V8FR-II and EMAX BLHeli 12A ESCs
Hey everyone, I'm working on building a FT Super Bee and I've gotten to the point of hooking up the electronics to the receiver. I have a FrSky V8FR-II and I have the power pack A (twin). I've soldered the battery leads from each ESC together onto a XT60 connector. I've configured my Taranis to output the throttle to both CH1 and CH4. The problem I'm having is that when I plug the battery in nothing happens. Neither ESC outputs any beeps. It's almost as if the ESCs don't think a motor is attached.
In playing around here's what I've noticed:
- If I hook the ESCs up to a servo tester in manual mode instead of the receiver everything works fine. Both ESCs output the initialization tones and when I turn the dial on the servo tester both motors spin just fine.
- If I just hook up 1 ESC to the receiver and leave the other one unplugged then everything works fine for the ESC that is plugged in.
- If I hook up both ESCs I've noticed that if I press the F/S (failsafe) button on receiver both ESCs will correctly initialize after that and I can use my transmitter to control both motors.
Based on what I'm seeing (the fact that it works with the servo tester) it makes me believe the receiver is doing something weird that the ESCs don't like. Or more specifically something that they don't like when both are plugged in.
Has anyone else had this problem and if so were you able to fix it?
Thanks in Advanced.
EDITED: To spell FrSky correctly
Hey everyone, I'm working on building a FT Super Bee and I've gotten to the point of hooking up the electronics to the receiver. I have a FrSky V8FR-II and I have the power pack A (twin). I've soldered the battery leads from each ESC together onto a XT60 connector. I've configured my Taranis to output the throttle to both CH1 and CH4. The problem I'm having is that when I plug the battery in nothing happens. Neither ESC outputs any beeps. It's almost as if the ESCs don't think a motor is attached.
In playing around here's what I've noticed:
- If I hook the ESCs up to a servo tester in manual mode instead of the receiver everything works fine. Both ESCs output the initialization tones and when I turn the dial on the servo tester both motors spin just fine.
- If I just hook up 1 ESC to the receiver and leave the other one unplugged then everything works fine for the ESC that is plugged in.
- If I hook up both ESCs I've noticed that if I press the F/S (failsafe) button on receiver both ESCs will correctly initialize after that and I can use my transmitter to control both motors.
Based on what I'm seeing (the fact that it works with the servo tester) it makes me believe the receiver is doing something weird that the ESCs don't like. Or more specifically something that they don't like when both are plugged in.
Has anyone else had this problem and if so were you able to fix it?
Thanks in Advanced.
EDITED: To spell FrSky correctly
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