@psafi , it looks like the motor simply does not spin-up properly, most likely because the sinusoidal spin-up is enabled (which it is by default) and the motor parameters are not correct or there is not enough power to spin the motor during spinup.
for the sinusoidal spinup to work properly, you need to set the following parameters in the esc config file (i adjusted the parameters for your motor):
<param name="vbat_nominal_mv" value="22200"/> <!-- used for sanity checking and limiting of voltage-dependent funcions -->
<param name="num_cycles_per_rev" value="7"/> <!-- number of pole pairs in the motor. used for converting electrical frequency to mechanical rpm -->
<param name="spinup_type" value="1"/> <!-- 0: traditional, 1: sinusoidal -->
<param name="spinup_power" value="120"/> <!-- power used to during spin-up procedure -->
<param name="latch_power" value="120"/> <!-- power used during latching stage of spin-up (out of 999)-->
<param name="spinup_power_ramp" value="16"/> <!-- it will take ( 4096 / (spinup_power_ramp*10000) ) seconds to ramp sinusoidal start-up power from 0 to spinup_power -->
<param name="spinup_rpm_target" value="1500"/> <!-- Desired RPM at the end of the sinusoidal spin-up procedure -->
<param name="spinup_time_ms" value="1500"/> <!-- Duration of the sinusoidal spin-up procedure -->
<param name="spinup_bemf_comp" value="1"/> <!-- 0: disable, 1:enable back-emf compensation in sinusoidal spin-up procedure -->
<param name="motor_kv" value="900"/> <!-- kV value of the motor. used in back-emf compensation during spin-up -->
If the motor still struggles, you can try to increase the spin-up power a bit higher to 130 or 140, but double check the current (per motor) during spin-up - a good rule of thumb is not to exceed 2-3 amps per motor during the spin-up phase.
In the params above i set 1.5 seconds spin-up time. you can try shorter if needed. However, significantly shortening the spin-up period, may require slight increase in spin-up power (to give it more torque).
If you calibrate using ID2, you will also see the total current (which will also include power for VOXL2, but that should be minimal).
Also, you mentioned running calibration in several motors - you typically do not need to do that, but you certainly can, just to check for consistency. All the ESC channels should have the same params / calibration.
One more tip; you can test reliability of spin-up by automatically commanding the motor to start / stop using existing test script:
./voxl-esc-spin-step.py --id 2 --rpm 0 --step-amplitude 2000 --step-frequency 1 --timeout 10 --enable-plot 1 --cmd-rate 100
(please note that this is a RPM step command, so your motor should be calibrated for RPM control) . if you don't want to spin in rpm mode, you can just use the following command to do a power step:
./voxl-esc-spin-step.py --id 2 --power 0 --step-amplitude 10 --step-frequency 1 --timeout 10 --enable-plot 1 --cmd-rate 100
I ran a similar command on a much smaller motor and here is a result (the exact command i ran was the following, but it will be too fast for your big motor / prop. Additionally, i ran the test on a linux pc, which allowed me to get much higher rate of feedback (2000 hz)
./voxl-esc-spin-step.py --id 2 --rpm 0 --step-amplitude 3000 --step-frequency 3 --timeout 10 --enable-plot 1 --cmd-rate 2000 --step-delay 0.1
This type of test can be used to automate testing multiple start / stop. Since your motor is different, you should make sure the motor spins down completely before restarting (adjust --step-frequency).
Additional tip, if you want the motor to stop faster (at least for spin-up testing, or permanently), you can set the following param to 1 and the brake will be applied when the motor is commanded to stop spinning (not just coast down):
<param name="brake_to_stop" value="1"/> <!-- apply brake when stopping motor (or not) -->
Alex
