TheRealDeal
- Mar 19, 2016
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Hey all,
First time here, hopefully I'm doing everything right. I come to you hoping that someone will be able to help me with my Electric Skateboard project (a copy of this cool project). I got the parts from Hobbyking a while back and have been trying to control the Motor with my Arduino through the Sentilon 100A HV ESC. But so far I've not been able to accomplish anything beyond a few beeps.
For those curious I'll start with a parts list:
The entire setup is connected like this:
I've tried using the Arduino's Servo.h write( ) method for values 0 - 20, 160 - 180 and a few assorted randoms in between, and writeMicroseconds( ) method for values between 0 and 2000 but no luck.
At this point I'm out of ideas. I've made triply sure that the motor is attached to pin 9 and even probed it to check if it's really a PWM signal I'm sending, all that looks good. But I don't even get the "Several 'beep-' tones" which tell me the number of Lithium cells I have connected.
I'm thinking it might be the batteries instead of code related but I was wondering what people had to say. Thanks so much!
First time here, hopefully I'm doing everything right. I come to you hoping that someone will be able to help me with my Electric Skateboard project (a copy of this cool project). I got the parts from Hobbyking a while back and have been trying to control the Motor with my Arduino through the Sentilon 100A HV ESC. But so far I've not been able to accomplish anything beyond a few beeps.
For those curious I'll start with a parts list:
- NTM Prop Drive Series 35-42A 1250Kv 600W
- 2 x ZIPPY Flightmax 4200mAh 3S1P 30C LiFePo4 Pack
- Turnigy Sentilon V4 100A 5-12s HV
- And a standard Arduino Uno
The entire setup is connected like this:
I've tried using the Arduino's Servo.h write( ) method for values 0 - 20, 160 - 180 and a few assorted randoms in between, and writeMicroseconds( ) method for values between 0 and 2000 but no luck.
At this point I'm out of ideas. I've made triply sure that the motor is attached to pin 9 and even probed it to check if it's really a PWM signal I'm sending, all that looks good. But I don't even get the "Several 'beep-' tones" which tell me the number of Lithium cells I have connected.
I'm thinking it might be the batteries instead of code related but I was wondering what people had to say. Thanks so much!