{"id":456,"date":"2013-01-17T17:57:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T16:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stigern.net\/blog\/?p=456"},"modified":"2013-02-24T07:19:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T06:19:34","slug":"guide-flashing-hobbywing-skywalker-20a-esc-with-blheli-firmware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stigern.net\/blog\/guide-flashing-hobbywing-skywalker-20a-esc-with-blheli-firmware\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide: Flashing Hobbywing Skywalker 20A ESC with BLHeli Firmware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/stigern.net\/images\/2013\/skywalker\/Skywalker20AESC.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"308\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This guide will tell you step by step how to flash a Hobbywing 20A esc with BLHeli firmware for multirotors. It will be the same procedure for any other ESC with a silabs chip, you just need to find the\u00a0pin-outs\u00a0for it. Well lets get started.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You will need the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arduino (<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.com\/p\/arduino-uno-rev3-development-board-120464\" target=\"_blank\">UNO<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.com\/p\/arduino-nano-v3-0-81877\" target=\"_blank\">Nano<\/a> etc. I use a <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.com\/p\/arduino-duemilanove-mega-avr-atmega1280-16au-usb-board-118042\" target=\"_blank\">Mega 1280<\/a> in this guide)<br \/>\nThree wires (I used some male to female jumper wires)<br \/>\nSoldering-iron with a tiny tip<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.olliw.eu\/2012\/owsilprog\/#firmware\" target=\"_blank\">OlliW`s flash-toolkit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stigern.net\/images\/2013\/skywalker\/OlliW%20AVR.JPG\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/stigern.net\/images\/2013\/skywalker\/OlliW%20AVR_small.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"478\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Attach your selected Arduino board to your computers USB and run the following file from the OlliW toolkit &#8220;AvrBurnTool_vxxx.exe&#8221;. Choose the type of Arduino board and select it&#8217;s COMport, then click the button &#8220;Burn All&#8221;. This will burn the flashing-tool onto your Arduino board, you can use your Arduino board for other sketches later, this will not make your board useless for other tasks.<\/p>\n<p>A CMD window will popup and let you know the flashing is in progress and then done. Just close the AvrBurn tool and the CMD window. Lets move onto next step!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Remove the plastic wrapping around your ESC, and get familiar with the soldering points as show in the next picture (click on the picture to see a larger one).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stigern.net\/images\/2013\/skywalker\/Skywalker20Pinout.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/stigern.net\/images\/2013\/skywalker\/Skywalker20Pinout_small.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now solder on the three jumper wires onto the pads shown in the picture above. The GND can be very tricky to solder, but after some try and fail I noticed it doesn&#8217;t need to be soldered exactly where the picture shows, but you can use the GND(black) at the servo-cable connection. Or generally any other GND. The red and white are easier, just put some tin on them first, then while you heat the wire, attach it!<\/p>\n<p>It should look something like the picture below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stigern.net\/images\/2013\/skywalker\/LoddepunkterShywalker.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/stigern.net\/images\/2013\/skywalker\/LoddepunkterShywalker_small.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then we attach the three wires onto the Arduino boards ISCP header, as shown in the picture below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/stigern.net\/images\/2013\/skywalker\/MegaPinout_small.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are now almost ready to flash the ESC, but before we do so the ESC needs a lipo battery connected. Needs to be powered on while flashing. The start the file\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;BLHeliTool_v100.exe&#8221; and choose your ESC make, model, type. As shown in the picture below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stigern.net\/images\/2013\/skywalker\/FlashSucc.JPG\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/stigern.net\/images\/2013\/skywalker\/FlashSucc_small.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"429\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Or choose the firmware file directly\u00a0&#8220;BLHeliHexFiles\\SKYWALKER_20A_MULTI_REV9_3.HEX &#8220;, and hit Flash!<\/p>\n<p>If everything went smooth it should say &#8220;Flash hex file&#8230; DONE!&#8221; \ud83d\ude42 To verify this click the &#8220;Setup Basic&#8221; tab and select READ, this will tell you the firmware type.<\/p>\n<p>HAPPY FLASHING!<\/p>\n<p>PS! At the moment 9_3 firmware will cause &#8220;twitches&#8221; when used on the Skywalkers, a new fix is in the works. And will be released in a matter of days.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: v10 firmware is now\u00a0available, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/bitdump\/BLHeli\" target=\"_blank\">check out this link.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guide will tell you step by step how to flash a Hobbywing 20A esc with BLHeli firmware for multirotors. It will be the same procedure for any other ESC with a silabs chip, you just need to find the\u00a0pin-outs\u00a0for it. Well lets get started. 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