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LED Programming Card User’s Manual for ICE series

With the programming card, you can set all functions of our ESC. The prominent feature

is its precise cutoff voltage adjustment for respective number of cells for the two types of

Lithium battery prevailing on the market. Furthermore, the timing, different brake modes,

governor modes and the accurate throttle stick positions can be set and adjusted by the

programming card. All settings of the ESC can be read by the card, while it is impossible

by throttle stick programming.

Operating Instructions

Disconnect the flight battery from the speed controller.

Disconnect the cable from the receiver (or opto-coupler), and connect it to the upper

right connector (ESC pins) on the ProgCard II. The cable has 3 colors wires: the brown

wire connect to the left cathode pin (brown), the red wire connect to the middle +5V pin,

the orange wire connect to the right signal pin.

You need to prolong the wires of OPTO ESC, because the ProgCard II needs to get power

supply from the receiver.

Now connect the motor with ESC. Those ESCs with BEC output is ready for

programmable by ProgCard II now. (For those ESCs without BEC output, the ProgCard II

needs to get power supply from the receiver.)

While the LEDs of the ProgCard II light up, you could hear 6 beeps (short melody) from

the ESC and motor.

Setting Instructions

Press ITEM button (on the left bottom of ProgCard II) to circularly select No. 1-14

Settings.

During your selection, the Setting No. shows on the upper ITEM screen, while the ESC

current parameter (under this Setting No.) shows on the upper VALUE screen. If 2

parameters occur (under certain Setting No.), they would be circularly showed on the

VALUE screen. Press VALUE button to set different parameters easily, and then press

ENTER button to save settings.

Level 1

Summary of content (5 pages)

PAGE 1
LED Programming Card User’s Manual for ICE series With the programming card, you can set all functions of our ESC. The prominent feature is its precise cutoff voltage adjustment for respective number of cells for the two types of Lithium battery prevailing on the market. Furthermore, the timing, different brake modes, governor modes and the accurate throttle stick positions can be set and adjusted by the programming card.
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Shortly after the ESC current settings been read, you can get into Level 1 starting with the Timing “1” indicator. You could press “ITEM” to select from the menu, and see the ESC current setting on “VALUE” screen. Press “VALUE” to set new parameters, and then press “ENTER” to save new settings. The ESC will acknowledge with a positive beep to confirm saving the setting (a low and a high tone beep), while send out a negative beep if any settings cannot be saved correctly (1 low tone).
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The brake starts 10% below the stop position, so the throttle stick range needs to be calibrated a bit shorter. For that put the throttle stick on 10% power ( about 3 notches away from stop) and proceed with the above calibration. Alternatively you can also learn in the complete stick range, after having set the servo travel from 10% to 100%. After calibration you need to come back to 0% - 100% to be able to reach the brake position.
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The ESC learns at every start the correspondence of the throttle curve and the head speed. That is why there is a short head speed increase just before reaching the demanded speed. This can disturb the tail, but a slight pitching will settle things down as the helicopter is not “glued” to the ground anymore. Gov. store is an extended helicopter feature, where the correspondence of the throttle curve and the head speed is done only at the first start (learning procedure).
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With larger diameters you can go to the max. A bad adjustment is reflected by a wagging tail. I-Gain is the integral gain. According to this parameter, remaining head speed deviations are corrected faster or slower. It is an important complement to the P term: The P control is fast, but cannot recover completely the demanded head speed as it needs this deviation to exist.