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skystars am60 (MVP60) wrong current in telemetry #40

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Stricted opened this issue Jul 19, 2024 · 3 comments
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skystars am60 (MVP60) wrong current in telemetry #40

Stricted opened this issue Jul 19, 2024 · 3 comments

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@Stricted
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Stricted commented Jul 19, 2024

i recently got a skystars am60 (MVP60) ESC

after i hooked up the telemetry line i can see in mission planner that the esc is reporting the wrong current for all 4 esc
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the voltage is within margin of error, the current value is completely out of whack, when connected to an external power supply and measuring current with a good multimeter i can dial it in to draw a total of 2A (both multimeter and power supply agree) but the ESC reports >60A of current draw on all 4 esc (even with the motors turned off)

any pointers as to what is going wrong here or how i can debug it? i already updated the esc to the latest firmware (2.12)

@AlkaMotors
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AlkaMotors commented Jul 19, 2024

There is no current sensor feedback on those esc's. There are only a handful of older esc's I know of with individual current shunt. Most 4 in 1s only have the current sense going to the flight controller.

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Stricted commented Jul 19, 2024

thanks,

interesting, so the current sense line is not connected to the individual esc to read? damn

would it be possible to have it just report 0 in such cases? it reporting 240A of total current in the mission planner manitor is not great
Screenshot_38

guess i have to read into how to use the current sense wire

edit: i also see no configuration/compile target for neither AM32_SKYSTARS_AM60_V2_F421 nor AM32_SKYSTARS_MVP60_F421, am i missing something?

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howels commented Jul 20, 2024

thanks,

interesting, so the current sense line is not connected to the individual esc to read? damn

would it be possible to have it just report 0 in such cases? it reporting 240A of total current in the mission planner manitor is not great Screenshot_38

guess i have to read into how to use the current sense wire

edit: i also see no configuration/compile target for neither AM32_SKYSTARS_AM60_V2_F421 nor AM32_SKYSTARS_MVP60_F421, am i missing something?

Usually the current sense wire on the ESC has a dedicated ADC pad on the FC which scales the 0-3.3V value and calculates current usage. If a dedicated Current ADC is absent it can sometimes be possible to use the RSSI ADC pad instead.

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