ESC Firmware Suggestions

[pasan]

About ABS... that wouldn't be difficult to implement in theory. When the brakes are applied, there's reverse flow of current, so measuring the size of the wave would allow the ESC to vary the brake at a preset point i.e. when the size of the wave becomes large (when the motor has almost stopped spinning) it will reduce the brake. Of course, there is the problem of when the ESC will know if the vehicle has come to a stop or not. 1:1 vehicles have all sorts of sensors which tell the computer the vehicle is still in motion even when all the wheels are not moving; our humble ESCs will not know how to distinguish between locked wheels during motion and a full stop :(

[shaunjohnson]

try the best of both worlds...
maby provisions for an optional hall sencor and magnet could be built into the ESC.
this would allow the ABS part of it to know weather the wheels were locked or not.

this is getting complicated..that's bad

ABS should be fesable above the start up algorithm.
so once the motor has completed start up phase (motor sound changes to higher pitch) then this point the ESC is gathering info from the motor on the unused phase.
the ESC can use this data in the ABS braking.

so final outcome would be...
ABS at high to medium speeds (where it's needed most..you dont wanna be doing speed runs and lock em up when braking)
and back to normal style when it gets down below the secoring RPM.

sound fesable?

Don't know if this is just firmware or would require hadware updates:
The mmm has an onboard temp.monitor to protect from overheating? It would be nice to be able to plug the mmm into an eagletree data logger or the dx3s receiver (maybe via servo y cable) to be able to monitor/review temps. Same thing goes for reading rpm's.

These things can already be done with the datalogger/dx3s, but it would somehow simplify setting up for temp&rpm.monitoring.