Special Modes
mash some buttons do some special stuff.
All of these modes start with the remote powered off.
Official modes
Reciever Pairing Mode
Hold down R
, M
, and Power
the LEDs will start flashing green.
Turn on a hoyt receiver. the remote will vibrate and the LEDS will shut off. Paired.
Firmware upgrade mode
Hold down T(down)
and R
. then press Power
The remote will immediately start flashing white when you hit the power button. then plug in to laptop.
more info on firmware upgrades (upgrades are non reverseable):
- Hoyt firmware upgrade video
- Hoyt linear throttle curve firmware thread
Potentiometer Calibration
Rarely needed
- Hold down
T(down)
,M
, andPower
- remote will flash green
- move throttle to max, min, and let it return to center
- press
R
you should hear a beep or it didn’t work. try again.
pdf from hoyt on the subject:
remote_recalibration_instructions.pdf (22.3 KB)
Discovered modes
LED test mode?
found this by accident, i’m guessing that it’s an LED test mode.
Hold down T(up)
, R
, and Power
remote will beep twice and LEDs will flash White
Now press any button besides Power
and the remote will beep twice and change the LED color
Button | Color |
---|---|
R | Blue |
T(Down) | Red |
T(Up) | Green |
M | Yellow |
Unknown mode?
Also found this by accident
Hold down T(up)
, M
, and Power
Blue LEDs will start flashing
Enjoy the serenity. I don’t know what it does.
Honestly i’d hoped this was a way of checking the battery level in the remote without turning on the receiver.
Normal Button Usage
Power
button
power on
Hold this down ~3s to power on, the remote will beep once LEDs will flash white.
if it fails to connect to a receiver it will start flashing red and buzzing.
if it connects to a receiver the LEDs will turn off and you’re good to go
LEDS / battery level
Press the Power
button while connected to a receiver, and the LEDS will turn on. The LEDs will indicate the puck battery level. (unless you somehow have very old pre SOC firmware update )
color | battery level | ~V* |
---|---|---|
Blue | 75-100% | > 4.0v |
Green | ~50-75% | > 3.9v |
Yellow | ~25-50% | > 3.7v |
Red | ~1-25% | > 3.5v |
*voltages sampled with a psu that only did 0.1V steps.
Below 10%, remote will flash and vibrate continuously. this includes if the voltage only dipped for a moment.
Lock remote (cruise control!??)
With the remote on and connected. Double tap the Power Button
it will beep once and turn on the LEDs. The remote is now “locked” and moving the throttle will not change the output.
Take note the throttle will output whatever value it was “locked” at. Usually most people use this to lock it at neutral. But you can lock it at some other point by holding the throttle as you lock it. this is not advised.
The remote will not “unlock” unless the remote is in a neutral position. If you’re having trouble unlocking it. calibrating the potentiometer may help.
M
button
This is the “Mode” button. With the remote on and connected pressing this will toggle between 3 power modes. beeping and vibrating once for mode 1(33%), twice for mode 2(66%), and thrice for mode 3(100%). go with 3. (always 3 when calibrating vesc input) The lower power modes just scale down the throttle output, notably on current control vescs this doesn’t limit speed it limits power, think of it as limiting throttle throw.
R button
this “Reverses” the throttle. stop is go, go is stop.
With the remote on and connected. Hold the R
button for 3s. the remote will beep. now the throttle is reversed. repeat to go back.
note: allows for “left hand mode” with buttons facing away from palm.
note also: throttle curve is different in “left hand mode” refer to throttle curve section below
T button
Toggle?
Trim
Ostensibly a “Trim” button. However it’s affect on the output is so minute as to not be measurable.
with the remote on and connected:
press T(up) a bunch of times and it will beep, and double beep until eventually it stops beeping. presumably the max range of the trim.
press T(down) a bunch of time for the same experience, getting to the bottom of the range.
if you like beeps. this button is for you.
Special modes
T
button is important to most of the special modes. so make sure it works in your case mods.
Note that it needs to be able to rocker and toggle between the two buttons on the pcb.
Future
Hoyt reserves the right to make T
button even cooler in the future.
Low RF Signal Warning ( why is it vibrating? )
sometimes riding through certain areas of high interference the puck will vibrate warning you of something… but of what?
Throttle curve
Older hoyt pucks have a built in throttle curve.
some people get rid of it by using the puck in left hand mode which didn’t have the curve.
There’s a firmware upgrade to change it to more linear.
Newer hoyt pucks ship with the newer linear throttle curve firmware. Those shipped after approximately March 2024
Puck PSA / Potentimeter issue
In december, 2020. Hoyt team sent out a PSA about some isuses with the hoyt puck poteniomter.
PDF from hoyt mailed out to customers:
puck psa.pdf (1.8 MB)
In short the potentimeter can break free from the board, the most common way being the single pin on the right side disconnecting which was resulting in a full throttle signal.
Hoyt updated their soldering as well as updating the cases to better support the potentiometer
If you’re using alternate cases, or your puck is old. You may want to look into battle hardening it yourself.
@Yeahthatperson has nice video on youtube about hardening.
Parts
Hoyt sells replacement potentiometers and all the other little bits you may need.
Alternate Shells / Puck Mods
Compendium over in this thread:
Firmware
*Note firmware upgrades are non-reversable
version | name/link |
---|---|
1.??? | 2020 battery level / SOC (links in description) |
1.0.11 | 2023 throttle curve |
PWM output range
In mode 3, with a properly calibrated potentiometer, the puck will output very close to these values
max | neutral | min |
---|---|---|
1962ÎĽs | 1502ÎĽs | 1187ÎĽs |
this consistency across remotes is likely why people get away without re calibrating vesc input, when changing remotes.
*tested by me across 3 different remotes