Team Kaizen - The Honey Badger

[Ocracoke]

I was about to say, I've taken the Gimson gearbox apart on the poorly motor and I think I might be able to use the existing shaft (if I can bore out the pinion gear to 8mm) and lose a single stage of the gearbox. Once that is done, the extended shaft fits in the gearbox with the adapter plate to the 775 motor only needing a little bore out to make it fit onto the motor.

My next engineering challenge then :P

according to hobbyking it says it 8mm.

Do you mean the brushless motor I am using?

Also, I can't count, it is a 18 tooth gear, not a 9. In which case, according to gearsandsprockets.co.uk, I can get a MOD 1 18T to fit on a 8mm shaft. It definitely is promising though.

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[qbnut]

I've been using the gearboxes off the very Gimson motors you've been using with 4248 outrunners. Had to find a suitable pinion, but it mated pretty much straight on

[Ocracoke]

Sounds promising then. As described above, it isn't quite as straightforward fit with this motor but I've ordered a couple of pinion gears so I might have it running on these motors fairly soon.

[Ocracoke]

Well... one of them is kind of working...



Perhaps if anyone could advise me as to why the motor is acting the way they are, I'd be most grateful

[Roboteernat]

Have I just replied to this same issue on Facebook?

[Ocracoke]

I wouldn't have thought so, I don't have a Facebook account of any variety.

EDIT: Looking at a video which is kind of similar, I think I have a bad connection somewhere, which is likely given how pants my soldering is (despite doing plenty of this at Manchester with Chris from ARC Robotics :P). Will dig further.

[qbnut]

These look like the RedBrick 125A ESCs. You mention using a different hex file, is this labelled rb70a3?

[Ocracoke]

They are 100A v2 Redbricks, so using the rb70a2.hex file.I need to figure out how to use the kkmulticopter tool to reprogram it to give me reverse. I know it is a boolean switch from 0 to 1 but I can't figure out (yet) how to get the code to load.

[qbnut]

Ah, OK. Do you get the three audible beeps at different frequencies on powering up the ESC? I couldn't really hear in the video. If you only get two, the one phase is missing and that's the difference in V2/V3 pinout. I had the same at first on the 125A.

[Ocracoke]

I get 3 beeps when the power is turned on and signal is acquired.