FC & ESC Connection 4/14 Use the 8-pin cable in the package to connect the FC and the ESC. Or solder 8 wires directly to the 8 pads on each end. Method 1 - Using 8-pin cable Use any end of the 8-pin JST cable to connect the FC to the ESC. F405 V4 Flight Controller BLS 55A 4-in-1 ESC Method 2 - Direct soldering...
Part 2 - F405 V4 Flight Controller Layout 5/14 For Second 4-in-1 ESC Receiver FPV Cam Barometer Extra PWM output Antenna MCU: F405 Bluetooth Chip Orange LED USB TYPC-C Port 4-level LED battery indicator Red LED Green LED Blue LED BOOT Button 5V 3A BEC Gyro(ICM42688P)
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LED strips connected to LED1-LED4 pads on the corners. Short-press the BOOT button to cycle the LED displaying mode. Long-press the BOOT button to switch between SpeedyBee-LED mode and BF-LED mode. Under BF-LED mode, all the LED1-LED4 strips will be controlled by the Betaflight firmware.
FC’s Peripheral Connection 6/14 Spektrum ELRS Receiver Receiver PPM Receiver SBUS Receiver SBUS 5-36V 5-36V 5-36V Video Video Video G/TX Crossfire Nano Rx Menu M/RX Menu CH2 RX CH1 TX SIGNAL SERVO LED Strip Buzzer Analog VTX DJI Air Unit...
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Motor 4 Motor 2 Motor 3 Motor 1 1000uF Low ESR Capacitor XT60 Power Cable Note1: In order to prevent the stack from being burnt out by voltage spikes on powering up, it is strongly recommended to use the Low ESR capacitor in the package.
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Cable Connection vs DJI O3 Air Unit Use 6-pin cable comes with the O3 Air Unit Cable Connection vs RunCam Link/ Caddx Vista Air Unit Use 6-pin cable comes with the F405 V4 stack (See the accessory No.11 in the package section) SBUS 7.4-26.4V Cable Connection vs DJI Air Unit V1...
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Importance notice for SBUS receiver When using an SBUS receiver, the SBUS signal wire of the receiver must be connected to the SBUS pad on the front side of the flight controller (this pad internally uses UART2). If you are also using the DJI Air Unit(O3/Link/Vista/Air Unit V1), you will need to disconnect the SBUS signal wire from the Air Unit harness.
App & FC Configuration 7/14 Get the SpeedyBee App Search ‘SpeedyBee’ on Google Play or App Store. Or download the Android .apk file on our website: https://www.speedybee.com/download. FC Configuration...
FC Firmware Update 8/14 SpeedyBee F405 V4 flight controller does not support wireless firmware flashing, so please flash firmware for it on your PC following the steps below: ① Connect the flight controller to the PC with a USB cable ② Open Betafight/ INAV configurator on your PC. Take Betaflight configurator as an example, go to the ‘Firmware Flashing’...
SD cards or buy the tested cards from our store. Supported. For SpeedyBee BLS 55A ESC, please set scale = 400 and Offset = 0. Current Sensor Input Power Input 3S - 6S Lipo(Through G, BAT pins/pads from the 8-pin connector or 8-pads on the bottom side)
Part 3 - SpeedyBee BLS 55A 4-in-1 ESC Layout 10/14 MOTOR 4 MOTOR 2 MOTOR 1 MOTOR 3 Capacitor pin Capacitor pin BAT+ BAT- hole(GND) hole(BAT+) 8pin connector(to FC) Driver Chips MCU(BB21) TVS Diode...
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Connection with the flight controller & Motors 11/14 Motor 4 Motor 2 Motor 3 Motor 1 1000uF Low ESR Capacitor XT60 Power Cable Note1: In order to prevent the stack from being burnt out by voltage spikes on powering up, it is strongly recommended to use the Low ESR capacitor in the package.
ESC Configuration 12/14 You could use the SpeedyBee APP to configure this ESC wirelessly for both BLHeli_S or Bluejay firmware. Steps: You could also use PC configurators to configure this ESC. We recommend the ESC Configurator. Please use Google Chrome browser and visist:...
ESC Firmware Update 13/14 This 8-bit 55A ESC can run BLHeliS or Bluejay firmware. It is loaded with BLHeliS firmware by default. You could also flash it to Bluejay firmware which can support RPM filtering and Bi-directional Dhsot. Firmware flashing steps are as follows: ●...
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