by JussiH » Thu May 08, 2014 10:03 pm
Soft start is only the actual start itself, Once running it has no effect. All it does is to make sure that there is no abrupt torque moment applied to gears and pinions that cant take it. Same thing for ESC "braking", its designed to stop the prop fast, once you pull throttle low. The purpose is to make sure you can stop prop fast in a landing situtation, but has no effect on running ESCs.
Back in the old days before I learned about flashed ESCs, I ran OEM-ESCs with soft start and braking enabled, and it made absolutely no diff in flight...But I liked that I could stop the props instantly and the soft start looked cool.
Soft start is done by MK on their ESC´s. Basically it starts the motor and then softly spools it up to min level. From there on it acts normal. But its just cool, not useful...
Actually, now that we are talking ideas....I think that a "brake" option would be nice for MR´s. A way to make sure that prop stops very fast, if throttle is pulled to 0 - sort of an "emergency stop"