Thanks for the super clear explanations. I just tried this with the same ESC as you have in the video and found a few more things worth mentioning (mostly gleaned from RCGroups forum). I did not need to raise the throttle trim, it seemed to work either way. To enable the brake, setting brake on in the main 'advanced settings' menu as you demonstrated was not enough on its own. I also had to calibrate the throttle so that the 'neutral' point was not at bottom throttle. To do this you raise the throttle before powering the ESC up, but instead of letting it finish those 20 beeps and enter the advanced settings, you lower the throttle to enter a 'basic settings' mode. The basic settings is only for throttle calibration and soft start. Anyway, as it's doing those 20 beeps, before it can finish, lower the throttle down to almost the bottom, but not quite. This will become the position at which the motor will start to spin, and lower than that will engage the brake. You'll hear two beeps to acknowledge the setting. Then (quite quickly!) you'll need to either raise the throttle to full again or lower it to zero, to specify whether you want soft start (throttle lowered) or quick start (throttle raised). Another two beeps of acknowledgement and you're back to the regular state.
Have many thanks to this information,it was in fact the only way to get the damn soft mode out of the programming 😅 If you wouldn’t have written this comment it would be the end of the story of my esc…Thanks a lot,your the man 👊😎
This video helped me because it points out that the throttle trim needs to be fully advanced. Lack of doing this prevented my previous attempts from entering the program mode. Thank You!
mine wont beep for cells, its old, could it be broken? I can power to receiver and servos, it lets me program, but I cant get power to motor and it doesn't count cells.
The fact that you can't get power to the motor makes me believe its toast! Try to change how it identifies cells (i.e. change to the actual number of cells rather than automatic or visa versa).
Hey man, this is a great video, really clear but my YEP60 ESC just makes the startup noise, then 6 beeps for my 6S battery and that's it. I am using a Black Edition DX9 so I have no idea if that means anything but it's not playing at all! Any ideas please?
@@bensonfilmworks7595 I'm trying to get power to my motor. A friend gave me an old model aeroplane and it worked fine last year apparently. My DX9 binds to it ok and all the controls work but no matter what I try I can't get the motor to turn. I just tried it with the same receiver in a different airframe and the same thing happened. Do you think it could be the receiver? Maybe the motor channel is no good? I'm coming to this again after 25 years and so I feel way out of my depth with the 2.4 technology!
O.K. Here's my thought process: To make things go round you need a signal from the transmitter. Your receiver has to sense that signal. The receiver must send the signal to the ESC. The ESC must send the signal to the motor, and the motor has to go round and round. I would probably work back. Try different motor. If that doesn't work then try a different ESC. I doubt that the receiver is faulty since all the controls work. My money is on the ESC. They do go bad. You don't happen to have some type of flight controller do you? They require some arming switch to activate the motor. Please keep me informed. These mysteries are good learning.
@@bensonfilmworks7595 Hey man, thank you, I think that's great advice. I will do as you say, I have another esc that I know is good with my Tx and another motor that I know works as well. I don't know why I didn't think of that myself really :S I will let you know how I get on!
Hello, Nice video. I have the exactly same ESC, can you tell me what is the PWM frequency to use while giving PWM signals through raspberry pi GPIO pins to it. So that it can control the BLDC motor properly. Also how do we calibrate in such as case, can I calibrate it with the python code I give to raspberry pi (model 4B).
Thanks for the help! So am I correct in assuming it is not possible to adjust low voltage cutoff settings using the throttle stick calibration? Do I need to get a programming card to do this?
Confusing, isn't it? To program the basic setup: Throttle full. Power ESC. wait for multiple beeps. Now move throttle to fully retarded if you don't want any brake, or back to less than half throttle if you want brake. Wait for two beeps. Now advance the throttle to the amount of power you want for startup. Fully advanced throttle: hard startup. Less than full throttle will give soft startup. Two beeps. Then I would disconnect the ESC. Next time you should be able to go to advanced programming as in this video. I've not tried this myself, but that's how I read the manual.
Not sure. When you power it up does is go through the sounds heard on the video? Most importantly: does it still turn the motor! I'd say if the motor still runs it's o.k. Best.
Or just spend the $6 on the programming card... Set the throttle points with the stick but use the card for everything else. Using the throttle to set everything is just dumb.
Thanks for the super clear explanations. I just tried this with the same ESC as you have in the video and found a few more things worth mentioning (mostly gleaned from RCGroups forum).
I did not need to raise the throttle trim, it seemed to work either way.
To enable the brake, setting brake on in the main 'advanced settings' menu as you demonstrated was not enough on its own. I also had to calibrate the throttle so that the 'neutral' point was not at bottom throttle. To do this you raise the throttle before powering the ESC up, but instead of letting it finish those 20 beeps and enter the advanced settings, you lower the throttle to enter a 'basic settings' mode. The basic settings is only for throttle calibration and soft start.
Anyway, as it's doing those 20 beeps, before it can finish, lower the throttle down to almost the bottom, but not quite. This will become the position at which the motor will start to spin, and lower than that will engage the brake. You'll hear two beeps to acknowledge the setting. Then (quite quickly!) you'll need to either raise the throttle to full again or lower it to zero, to specify whether you want soft start (throttle lowered) or quick start (throttle raised). Another two beeps of acknowledgement and you're back to the regular state.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH. Excellent information.
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Have many thanks to this information,it was in fact the only way to get the damn soft mode out of the programming 😅
If you wouldn’t have written this comment it would be the end of the story of my esc…Thanks a lot,your the man 👊😎
This video helped me because it points out that the throttle trim needs to be fully advanced. Lack of doing this prevented my previous attempts from entering the program mode. Thank You!
Thank you, Helped me out. Was trying to set up the 18a YEP ESC for a 24'' wing... thanks again
Thank you for taking time to prepare this video with details, especially the cheap sheet, which is very clear. ..)
Thanks so much I nearly bricked my esc with a house brick, now I'm happy 😊 and my yep 18 amp esc lives on lol, subbed!
my yep 18 appears to be for helis, cannot get the throttle curve back to linear :-/
thanks for the information
You're welcome! Thanks for watching.
Thanks for your. Pleas, how to setup YEP120 for longboard without programing card?
Have you tried this procedure?
Not sure what a longboard is aside from something to do with skateboarding!
The ESC made a quick descending sound when it first turned on xD
Thanks so far! What does mode 3,4 and 5 means? It looks advanced but what does degrees en pwm freq or govonor mode means?
This video might help:. th-cam.com/video/na0W4xgZIwI/w-d-xo.html
mine wont beep for cells, its old, could it be broken? I can power to receiver and servos, it lets me program, but I cant get power to motor and it doesn't count cells.
The fact that you can't get power to the motor makes me believe its toast! Try to change how it identifies cells (i.e. change to the actual number of cells rather than automatic or visa versa).
Hey man, this is a great video, really clear but my YEP60 ESC just makes the startup noise, then 6 beeps for my 6S battery and that's it. I am using a Black Edition DX9 so I have no idea if that means anything but it's not playing at all! Any ideas please?
Not quite sure what you mean. Are you trying to program the ESC or power a motor. Happy to try to help.
@@bensonfilmworks7595 I'm trying to get power to my motor. A friend gave me an old model aeroplane and it worked fine last year apparently. My DX9 binds to it ok and all the controls work but no matter what I try I can't get the motor to turn. I just tried it with the same receiver in a different airframe and the same thing happened. Do you think it could be the receiver? Maybe the motor channel is no good? I'm coming to this again after 25 years and so I feel way out of my depth with the 2.4 technology!
O.K. Here's my thought process: To make things go round you need a signal from the transmitter. Your receiver has to sense that signal. The receiver must send the signal to the ESC. The ESC must send the signal to the motor, and the motor has to go round and round.
I would probably work back. Try different motor. If that doesn't work then try a different ESC.
I doubt that the receiver is faulty since all the controls work. My money is on the ESC. They do go bad.
You don't happen to have some type of flight controller do you? They require some arming switch to activate the motor.
Please keep me informed. These mysteries are good learning.
@@bensonfilmworks7595 Hey man, thank you, I think that's great advice. I will do as you say, I have another esc that I know is good with my Tx and another motor that I know works as well. I don't know why I didn't think of that myself really :S
I will let you know how I get on!
Hello, Nice video. I have the exactly same ESC, can you tell me what is the PWM frequency to use while giving PWM signals through raspberry pi GPIO pins to it. So that it can control the BLDC motor properly. Also how do we calibrate in such as case, can I calibrate it with the python code I give to raspberry pi (model 4B).
wow. I'm sorry I don't know but perhaps some of our viewers can help. Please. Anyone?
I believe this uses a PPM signal (pulses from 1000uS to 2000uS), not "traditional" PWM signals which carry the info via duty cycle (0% - 100%)
Thanks a bunch!!!
Thanks for the help! So am I correct in assuming it is not possible to adjust low voltage cutoff settings using the throttle stick calibration? Do I need to get a programming card to do this?
You're welcome. You're also correct. I don't think the low voltage cutoff can be programmed using the stick. You would need the programming card.
How to throttle range? I must be doing it wrong, I try how I thought I knew but it automatically goes to programming mode
Confusing, isn't it? To program the basic setup: Throttle full. Power ESC. wait for multiple beeps. Now move throttle to fully retarded if you don't want any brake, or back to less than half throttle if you want brake. Wait for two beeps. Now advance the throttle to the amount of power you want for startup. Fully advanced throttle: hard startup. Less than full throttle will give soft startup. Two beeps. Then I would disconnect the ESC. Next time you should be able to go to advanced programming as in this video.
I've not tried this myself, but that's how I read the manual.
Also, please read the excellent comments by iForce2d below, which are very helpful.
My ESC doesn't beep, do you think it's faulty?
Not sure. When you power it up does is go through the sounds heard on the video? Most importantly: does it still turn the motor! I'd say if the motor still runs it's o.k. Best.
Benson Filmworks well I contacted HobbyKing and they said it's the ESC because the motor was spinning fine on my Quads esc :)
Or just spend the $6 on the programming card... Set the throttle points with the stick but use the card for everything else. Using the throttle to set everything is just dumb.
Dear Kind sir. Thank you for your point of view. An alternate point of view is that it's dumb to pay $6.00 to change the brake setting.