Scarab Beetleweight Dual ESC & Receiver

£46.00

Robson Robotics brings the Malenki to beetleweight with the new Scarab Dual ESC with built in receiver!

  • Small and lightweight at 40x25x3.3mm and 4g
  • Two 9A current limited brushed channels, can happily run 4 x 22mm motors at 4S
  • Built in AFHDS 2A (flysky) receiver to save weight and space
  • Two PWM channels for servos or brushless ESCs
  • Driving invert mode – can switch forwards/backwards on transmitter switch when robot is upside down
  • Telemetry – battery voltage information sent to transmitter
  • Servo stretcher mode – for larger servo range

Receiver uses AFHDS 2A protocol – recommended transmitters: Flysky FS-i6 or transmitters with multi-protocol modules (set it to FlSky2A) Setup, wiring & binding below. Useful links: Malenki Documentation (runs same firmware), GitHub,

7 in stock

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Size

40x25x3.3mm

Weight

4g

Input Voltage

2-4S lipo (6-18V)
Low voltage cutoff: 2.8V per cell

Motor Output

5A Continuous x 2
9A Peak x 2 (current limited)

PWM Output

Two channels of PWM output for servos or external ESCs (eg brushless)

Mixing

On board mixing of channels (can be disabled)

Center Braking

Built in. Motors stopped by zero signal.

BEC

No BEC.

Binding & Setup:

To Bind: Out of the box it will enter bind mode on power on (flashing blue light). When bound, the flashing LED will stop, you may then need to power cycle.
To Rebind: power on Scarab with your transmitter off and wait 90 seconds for flashing blue light.

Setup:

  1. Solder motors (L to left side drive, R to right side drive) and power connector to PWR + & – on the Scarab (XT30 recommended) See diagram in the image gallery above.
  2. For servos/brushless ESCs, solder the signal cable to one of the PWM pads and power them off the power rail if voltage is supported. These are Channel 3 and 6 as labelled on the PCB.
  3. Power it on, (red light for power) bind to your transmitter (blue light for bind) and test motors – channel 1,2,3 to see if behaving as expected.
  4. It’s then highly recommended to heat shrink, kapton or electrical tape to lower risk of short circuiting the board.
  5. In Configuration mode you can use channel 5 to invert or swap channels, disable mixing, braking and enable servo stretching. See Malenki Documentation – same configurators on the Scarab.

Wiring diagram – Scarab is acting as both Dual ESC & Receiver

Components in this example: 3S or 4S Lipo, Beetle Safety KitBreakout cable and BBB 22mm Motors.
Image made by Team DSC.

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