I have read and watched many videos and no one seemed to be able to give a simple explanation
very simply
sab Genesis sport 700
hobbywing 260platinum v5 setup with telemetry all works
trying to dial in capacity and trying at various setups , normal, id1 and 2
simply with examples if battery is 5000mah put into setup wizard and you are using 4000 when charging back up what would you put for a correction
tried a few with little difference and sometimes when increasing for 10 to 20 in configuration it actually got worse
if I understood what this number was doing it may help.
is it a percentage?
can we go both positive and negative?
thank you
Premise: in case you’ve never read the thousands of posts on this subject in model-making forums and various model-making groups, Hobbywing ESCs have a system for measuring the current drawn from the battery by the motor and the BEC (if fitted) that is very imprecise (the new V5 versions of the ESCs are no better than the previous V4 versions), the readings vary from ESC to ESC, even within the same model, and as the system is not linear, the readings vary depending on flying style (during slow, gentle flights, the measured current may be higher or lower than the actual current consumed, whilst during aggressive 3D flying, the opposite is true).
Therefore, unlike ESCs from all other brands, with Hobbywing ESCs the current consumption can only be ‘indicative’ and ‘approximate’ and is never exact or precise.
That said, the ‘mAh Correction Factor %’ slider found in the ‘Telemetry’ section of Panel 12 of the Configuration Wizard (and also present in Section 6 ‘Thrott&Gov’ under ‘ADVANCED’ and in the various ‘extensions’ that replicate the ‘ADVANCED’ section) has a value of zero at the centre and can therefore take on negative values to the left and positive values to the right
This is a correction percentage, as is clearly indicated at the end of the parameter’s name.
thanks and I assume if I have put in 5000 and I use -10% it would act like I had 4600 in there then
if this is wrong please correct me
I guess I missed the slider that went plus and minus need too look at the sliders because some go from0 up only
thanks again
10 per cent of 5000 mA is 500 mA
5000 mA minus 500 mA = 4500 mA (not 4600 mA).
Although this is already stated in the instructions, with regard to Hobbywing ESCs, there are two further issues that must be avoided:
As soon as the motor starts, the voltage generated by the motor acting as a dynamo produces a small voltage that is not recognised or managed by the FreeWheel; this causes sudden, unwanted acceleration, and this sudden increase in motor torque causes a sudden movement of the tail.
The ‘Cutoff Voltage’ function in Hobbywing ESCs also triggers when it shouldn’t, causing unexpected motor shutdowns in flight.
For this reason, both functions MUST be disabled.