The ESCs is one of yours. I’ve had no issue with them.
BTW I suspect that the multiplexed Rx/Tx thing is by running a pull down transistor and pull up resistor on each end of the “UART” wire, and this is what makes it different to a standard USB-Serial dongle with the usual FDTI chip.
It looks like the Linker is trying to initiate a handshake but not getting anywhere. I’ll try to borrow a real Win11 laptop and see if that fixes it, or spring for another Linker.
Hi @psupine -
I would guess your issue is getting the virtual machine hardware access to the device - I’ve struggled with this using some VM, and only had success with parallels…
Parallels is the VM I have been trying to use, and failing to successfully connect to the Linker
I managed to resurrect my wife’s old Dell that hails originally from the days of Win7, and is now struggling to run Win10 and barely coping … but, it is sufficient to successfully run BLHeliSuite-S and to disable the StartUp Beeps (and to prove that the Linker h/w works).
Is there a similar configuration option for the Basic ESC 500? We are looking to disable the Beacon feature on a Blue boat. Ideally we would like to be able to send sort of command that fully disables the ESC but short of that we would like to disable the PWM signal going to the ESC and not have it beep constantly.
Unfortunately they don’t use the same firmware as our Basic ESC, and the information we have from our supplier does not indicate there’s an option to disable the beacon functionality, or the entire ESC.
You could conceivably disconnect the ESCs from power with a sufficiently high power-capacity electronic switch/relay (controlled by one of the autopilot’s output pins), but that may be somewhat challenging to find and install.