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Dshot Control of ESCs #9

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ecic2002 opened this issue Jul 8, 2022 · 1 comment
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Dshot Control of ESCs #9

ecic2002 opened this issue Jul 8, 2022 · 1 comment
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ecic2002 commented Jul 8, 2022 •
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-Determine the validity of using a PIC microcontroller to control the ESCs, as opposed to the I2C to PWM IC.
-The PIC would need to act as a slave I2C device to the jetson, and communicate using biirectional DSHOT to the 8 thruster escs. The PIC could get and send the power draw, RPM, and temp of the ESCs with a request from the JETSON.
-High priority as this will determine our PCB design of ESC backboards and PCS board.
-PIC could also be used to get thermal/power draw data from converters if they use a communication protocol different from I2C. Could also control RGB indicator lights.
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In the interest of time/budget, this year we will stick to using PWM to control the thrusters instead of DSHOT. The pic microcontroller does not need to be included in this years PCS board. This issue has been benched

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