so two motors spin, all motors was spinning tho

[thawk01]

hey, after finally setting up the fc and wiring everything(except the receiver, camera, vtx), I watched the video to configure it to at least work and so I can test my motors and esc. I calibrated my esc by taking the master volume all the way up, plugged in bat and then all the way down to finish the calibration. all motors spun, grated all the same direction but they works. then I ran into an issue where now only two spin…. its the front left motor that doesn’t spin. I honestly don’t even know what happened… any help would be awesome. I wired everything absolutely correct to the video, there should be no shorts.

if I get the motors to all work again with anyones help, how can I reverse the one motor so they go the right way?

[MadPoet]

HI Thawk,

I can’t speak to why the motors are not spinning up, but I can advise on how to change the direction. You can do this in BLHeli configurator, here’s a link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blheli-configurator/mejfjggmbnocnfibbibmoogocnjbcjnk?hl=en

This is assuming you are running BLheli ESCs. Connect up as you would for betaflight. Inside you will note the directions they spin and you can also update the firmware if you like.

Hope this helps!

[thawk01]

I bought everything for the baby here so the escs should definitely run blheli. I had ppl confirm this to run with blhelisuite-32. I did get the chrome app and I can connect, put in battery and hit Reasd setup but nothing appears. Blhelisuite-32 will connect and I can calibrate all ESC but I’m having issues with understanding that program and I get a message saying motor one not powered correctly or something even tho it is and I can spin all of them and calibrate all of them, just can’t display each motor and select the one I need to reverse. I got them to work finally after finding out the required hex file and betaflight latestfirmware update both were not suitable for the fc. I had to find a different hex to make it work that’s built for it.

[Kevin_Erik]

If they worked originally then it indicated the folowing:

-Bad wiring / solder joint.

-BadESC (I had one of these on my first tricopter build)

-Blown Motor (Its possible you could smell this though)

-Configuration change that you are not aware of or don’t remember doing.

[thawk01]

(ignore photos attached to this reply, refere to next reply please) So I managed to connect into blheli32 configurater. And ESC 2 is non existent with the absolute latest fc firmware one betaflight(see pictures one and two). I wired all esc to fc exactly how David showed and layed out. All ESC work, no wrong wires in misplaces. Is ESC 2 the servo? Because it should be reading that motor that’s not working ATM but it absolutely does work if I do some testing on other programs. Just can’t configure my escs with other programs. This is a nightmare… A headache… I loaded blheli32 with clean flight/betaflight bootloader pass through (picture 3). David recommended to wire ESC to this config to coptor(pic 4) and my escs are wired exactly on my fc(pic 5) exactly how David did. in(pic 4) motor “3” is esc(3) in blheli32, motor “4” is esc(2), and motor “1” is esc 1. I know I’m being a pain but can’t find the help or answers I need.

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[thawk01]

esc is 35A aikon ak32. just redid solderjoints. is it possible I should switch pwm 4(esc 2 that’s not reading) with the servo that’s on pwm 2? that’s the only logical explaination I can go with even though that’s not the guide directions according to davids video.

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[thawk01]

SOLVED!!!!!! randomly found some videos about blheli and no esc response. I found out my esc was getting juice but it was not getting any signal. so I resourced my motor that wasn’t reading to my ppm 1 on the f3fc board after freeing the ppm resource!!!!!!! almost spent money on a new esc!! I dodged a bullet there! all motors work, fixed direction of my one motor, flashed all new firmware to esc’s and all calibrated!

[MadPoet]

Dude, good work! If the weather permits, have some fun!

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