23-03-2011, 11:12 PM
No worries Wayne - your ESC won't arm properly (with differing beeping and behaviour, depending on the whim of the manufacturer) if the throttle isn't at the extremities of travel. Usually, the throttle needs to be fully on (or up) when you want the ESC to go into the "program" mode, which is why Kieran was prescribing a sequence of steps above that would cater for that.
When you've finished programming it, and just want to use the thing as a speed control, it needs to have the throttle stick fully off at start-up. When you mentioned that the motor is still ticking over when the throttle is fully off, then it sounds like there's some trim on your throttle stick which should be removed. You should check against this by getting your transmitter and selecting down-trim on your throttle until there isn't any positive offset there. You've got a DX6i, so it will have a little linear scale on the display telling you how much trim is has. If it has any trim on the throttle, then push down until it's all gone.
Let us know if that helps.
When you've finished programming it, and just want to use the thing as a speed control, it needs to have the throttle stick fully off at start-up. When you mentioned that the motor is still ticking over when the throttle is fully off, then it sounds like there's some trim on your throttle stick which should be removed. You should check against this by getting your transmitter and selecting down-trim on your throttle until there isn't any positive offset there. You've got a DX6i, so it will have a little linear scale on the display telling you how much trim is has. If it has any trim on the throttle, then push down until it's all gone.
Let us know if that helps.
Steve Murray