Hobbywing Quicrun WP Brushed ESC Programming

This is a “cheatsheet” I wrote for myself, because I didn’t wanted to search for the large manual sheet, each time I wanted to program one of these ESC. There is a brief description for each option and, for some items, some recommended values to use for crawlers (since this is a particularity popular ESC…

Hobbywing Quicrun WP Brushed ESC Programmierung

Das Quicrun WP 1080 ESC ist ein beliebter elektronischer Geschwindigkeitsregler (Electronic Speed Controller) für Crawler mit Bürstenmotoren (Brushed Motors). Letztere sind in diesem Bereich aufgrund ihrer technischen Eigenschaften nach wie vor sehr beliebt. Das ESC lässt sich mit Hilfe einer mitgelieferten “Karte” (eigentlich mehr ein Kasten) programmieren. Eine kurze Beschreibung ist direkt auf der Karte…

Flash Radiolink RC6GS v2 Firmware Using Linux

I’ve done this with my own RC6GS v2 and it worked. It may work with other radios from Radiolink, too. The current firmware version can be checked, by pressing the Exit + Enter keys at the same time (enter menu) and then select “1. LANGUAGE”. The firmware version will be displayed on the bottom of…

Make a 24 V power supply from two 12 V supplies

Server power supplies, like the HP DPS-750RB, are available for a low price, especially if they have been used before. This makes them ideal for powering chargers that allow for or even require a DC input voltage. The downside is, that they only produce 12 V output voltage. Most chargers claim to be able to…

Make a floating ground 12 V server power supply

This article describes how to make a power supply with a so called floating ground from a regular server power supply. This is needed for example when connection multiple DC power sources in series to reach a higher voltage. To understand why this is necessary, please check out my other article about making a floating…

Turning on a HP DPS-750RB server power supply

There are many tutorials and how-tos on the web, that use a resistor or wire to connect two pads on the top of the rear edge, to turn on the power supply. I found this a little bit odd, since regularly, one needs to pull a certain pin to ground (GND), to turn on the…

Powering the TS100 Soldering Iron Using a 18 V Power Tool Battery

The portable, STM32-powered TS100 soldering iron has a wide input voltage range from 12 V to 24 V. Since the resistance of the soldering tips doesn’t change, the power consumption will vary from about 17 W at 12 V to about 65 W at 24 V. To power the iron from a Lithium polymer (LiPo)…

4WD Steering Using a Servo Reverser (or not)

Some RC cars or model kits allow to add the steering of a second (mostly rear) axis, using a second servo. This is, for example, true for the Tamiya CR-01 or G6-01 chassis. Tamiya recommends using a remote control system and an additional channel to set this up. If you don’t already own such a…

Using High Voltage (HV) Servos on Your RC Car

Regular “low voltage” servos In most(?) or at least many cases, your steering servo is only connected to your receiver, which is powered by the inbuilt BEC of your ESC.These Battery Eliminator Circuits (BECs) are basically voltage regulators that converts your battery voltage to a voltage of about 5 to 6 Volt, although some ESC…

Pixhawk Clones – Selecting ArduPilot Copter Firmware

Backstory There are different (flight) controllers available that are named “Pixhawk”, but in this article, I want to concentrate on the mostly Chinese “clones”. Although “clone” is the wrong term here, since the whole Pixhawk platform is an open hardware project. So building and selling hardware of this design is perfectly legal (which doesn’t mean…