Tag: BlHeli

  • BLHeli_32 is dead, killed by the war in Ukraine

    Hm, to be honest, I’m not sure what to think about it and the fact that BlHeli AS (company that develops and sells BLHeli 32 licenses) is closing operations as it was impacted by the export control regulations towards Russia. In other words, sanctions. We will not go into geopolitical aspects of things, but let’s…

  • BlHeli Motor Timing Explained

    BlHeli Motor Timing Explained

    What is motor timing? You can change it in the BlHeli configurator, but what does it do? Many tutorials say that you should increase Motor Timing. What is the gain of doing so? And why is it in degrees (at least in BLHeli_32)? The short answer is: higher timing equals slightly more torque but less…

  • PWM, OneShot125, OneShot42, Multishot and DSHOT comparison

    Two years ago it was simple: you wanted to connect ESC to a Flight Controller or radio receiver, you were just doing it. There were only one (maybe 2) protocols that allowed to pass information to ESC. It was a standard PWM protocol. And it was enough. No, with faster hardware, mini or even micro…