Align Speed controller

[MadMikey]

hi there, i'm fairly new to heli's i been flying a e-sky honey bee cp2 for the past few months and can fly it very well!!! well friday i order my t-rex xl eccpm. i got a heli/motor/esc combo. it comes with the align 420 brushless motor and the align esc. i wqas just wondering how hard is to set-up the controller???have be dealing with electric airplanes for the past 2 years and have even helped a friend set-up a veriable pitch airplane which runs in heli mode. but that was with castle creations esc and all i had to do was hook it up to my lap top and i could program it. so how hard is to det up the govener mode and all that other stuff i have to set-up???
thanks so much
mike

[Rcer22]

:D Didn't it come with intructions? Without them you might never find all the funtions. :D

[WayneBrown]

the instructions if he has them are less than worthless. Try www.trextuning.com
there is an article and how-to section just for the ESC's.

[WillJames]

Here is how they say to set it up.

Setting up the Align ESC is not overly complicated but quite confusing if you don't know what all the beeps are about.

The following is a description in words of the setup procedure, bear with me as it is quite complex to explain.

Firstly your tx must be setup such that your throttle curve is the default linear curve. ie. 0 25 50 75 100 for a radio with a five point curve. The reason for this is that the ESC uses the stick position to sense what settings you want during the programming phase.

Next step is to put your stick at full throttle and plug in the battery (yes, I was also worried).

The ESC will emit a scale (crecendo) of notes in quick succession indicating setup mode being entered.
Put the stick at low throttle and the setup sequence begins.

The ESC will now emit a single beep, repeating slowly, this indicates option 1 is being set. Put the stick in the appropriate place for the setting you want. Option 1 is the break setting, so should be turned off in a heli, so the stick should be at low throttle. The ESC will wait a preset period of time beeping once slowly and then take the option as wherever the stick currently is placed. If you are following these instructions then you won't have moved the stick from the low throttle position at the start of the setup sequence.

The ESC now emits a scale of notes in quick succession to indicate the setting has been taken and will now beep twice, slowly and repeating. You are now setting option 2, hence the two beeps slowly repeating. You are now setting the timing for the motor. Place the stick in the appropriate place for your motor. Option 1 is low timing, option 2 is mid timing and option 3 is high timing. For an Align motor mid or low timing can be used, so middle or low throttle for the stick.
After a preset period the ESC will emit a scale of notes in quick succession, indicating the option has been set.

Following this the ESC will emit three beeps, repeating slowly, you are now setting option 3 for battery protection.
Again place the stick high, middle or low. I set my battery protection to high (70%) which is the low throttle stick position. This gives you just under 9v as the point your ESC will enter battery protection mode.

After a preset period you get the scale of notes in quick succession and then the ESC plays back your settings using beep codes for option 1, 2 and 3. Listen carefully to verify they are correct.

If they are then unplug the battery, plug it back in and go fly. If they aren't correct unplug the battery, place your stick at full throttle and plug the battery back in again to re-enter setup mode.

[MadMikey]

Baja thanks for the help. well when my t-rex first came i wasn't too pleased to see the esc didn't have govener mode. i am new to heli fling but some of my friends felt i would benefit using govener mode. so i put a cc25 on it. well first hover setup flight my buddy was about chest high when it amped out!!! it fell and broke the skids. come to find out the esc was bad so i went home and put the align on. well the next day i went to a friends to help me program the esc. we got it programed and the motor ran great tons more head speed then the other esc. well later that day we all got together and my buddy was going to test fly again and the motor would not run!!! just sitting there and make noises. i came home straight soldered it and tryed to get it to run, i started to run and then did the same thing and then smoke started pooring from the esc, yep smoked it!!!so i order a cc35 that evening and now everything is great!!! a friend told me later that the 420, 3200 kv motor really needs a 35 amp esc and it runs greqt now that i have the 35 on it!!!

mikey