VOXL2 ESC calibration using VOXL2 IO board and m500 frame

[JoeC]

Re: VOXL2 calibrate ESCs (referencing an older topic that addresses this with the VOXL ESC board speciifcally)

Hello, Please consider the case where a VOXL2 flight deck is interfaced with a traditional m500 frame, ESCs, and motors using the VOXL2 IO board. What's the proper method to perform ESC calibration? The latest version of voxl-esc is installed, but the documentation and forum post about this seem to assume the presence of the UART-based VOXL ESC board. I've got voxl-px4 version v1.12.34 on here right now and the latest system image.

-Joe

[Chad Sweet]

I don't think we have a method to do this directly from VOXL 2. Obviously the PC tools is an option. Could you bypass the VOXL 2 IO board just for calibration?

[JoeC]

@Chad-Sweet Hey Chad! Yes 100% I'm open to the PC tools to get it done as well. I suppose I'm a bit uncertain about the hardware pipeline in this case. I'll want to have the traditional m500 ESC and motor, so I'll need to generate the PWM calibration curve somehow and generate the correct parameters. Should I use a surrogate m500 VOXL1 board to just get the values and run with those?

-Joe