Poor Unity has caught a lot of extra flack for user error. I responded on that thread – I’m so curious. Thanks for crossposting.
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@Deodand what’s the timeout for lost connection to remotes with the unity? Would this happen after a minute if the remote was turned off?
Agreed. So much so that I can’t pinpoint what if anything is actually a unity fault. Definitely the most blamed component of the year.
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I’m pretty sure the default across unity & vesc is 1000ms. It’s set on the general app tab and applies to pwm, uart, etc.
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@DerelictRobot so a minute is too long for a failsafe to take action?
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Screw this. I’m buying a unicycle
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How can you look at yourself in the mirror? Aaahaha lol.
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Lmao. Right 
Only if you’re trying to not die.
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(joking aside I wouldn’t mind owning a vespa or a euc)
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Not me man. I would never own an euc even if my life depended on it.
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full face with mirrored visor maybe?
I get that. But I still wonder if a remote being turned off would possibly trigger a failsafe
If it’s an RC hobby receiver that has channel failsafes that have to be set, and those are set incorrectly (not neutral), then yes.
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Nope. Not if it was made of gold. Still nope!
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Now that I think about it, I never set mine…well I know what I’m doing in the morning 
Good to know I haven’t died…yet
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There’s one more twist. If your transmitter’s trim pot isn’t dead center, and you do the ppm calibration wizard in vesc, it moves the ppm neutral off center a bit. If you’ve not set remote failsafe with this trimpot position, if you trigger remote failsafe, it won’t go neutral – it’ll either accelerate or brake.
Really good to at least test this stuff on the bench. Turn remote off, pull remote batteries, etc.
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Not all receivers have this feature. I dunno, don’t use em really.
The Hoyt is the only pwm remote I’ve used extensively with esk8
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@DerelictRobot
My photon remote burnt in my board fire. Hoyt and osrr aren’t really in my wallet’s range. So I’m rolling on a APS trigger remote… it kinda works (got used to the trigger but still hate it) and it’s all I’ve got. Maybe one day, I’ll be able to upgrade
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