Hi,
I always thought, to control a ESC you would have to treat it as a servo and therfore use to servo-library.
But during my research for a quadrocopter, I found a project called http://www.multiwii.com/, and looking at the sourcecode I found out, that they are simply using analogWrite() to controll the ESC.
Does anybody know how or why this works?
I couldn't find anything to download on their download page, but the below has some info that apparently shows what they are doing.
Mhm maybe this is the point...I thought, you could use all standart RC ESCs for the Wii-project, but on their page it says:
"For the MultiWii we need a fast update rate & ESC’s which can handle that.
There are a number of standard ESCs than can handle update rates of about 490 Hz, namely Turnigy Plush, Mystery Blue, HK SS and a few others.
The 490Hz basically means that the ESC gets 490 times per second an update.
A standard servo for example works at 50hz or is updated 50 times per second."
I got the HK SS ESCs and they work fine with writeMilliseconds(), but I'll try if they work with analogWrite() too (I hope it won't break something..).