Unit 8 - Vocab C

refers to the concept of shutting down a motor when an ESC reaches a certain voltage.

• capacitor
• amp/ampere
• hard cutoff
• bootloader

the voltage, or electromotive force, that pushes against the current which induces it. The term is most commonly used to refer to the voltage that occurs in electric motors where there is relative motion between the armature of the motor and the magnetic field from the motor's field magnets, or windings.

• channel
• amp hour (Ah)
• back electromotive force (back-EMF)
• OneShot

refers to a coding system using the binary digits 0 and 1 to represent a letter, digit, or other character in a computer or other electronic device.

• circuit
• 3-phase
• binary code
• soft cutoff

slows the props faster by effectively using the flywheel energy of the prop to slow the motor, turning it into a generator which applies resistance against the prop. Also called regenerative braking and damped light.

• current
• burst current
• complementary PWM
• OPTO (Optoisolator)

tells you how many amps can constantly be safely drawn from the battery.

• electron
• calibration
• Constant Discharge Rate
• UBEC (Universal Battery Eliminator Circuit)

In computers, the process of putting a sequence of characters (letters, numbers, punctuation, and certain symbols) into a specialized format for efficient transmission or storage.

• ESCs (Electronic Speed Controllers)
• duty cycle
• Encoding
• BEC (Battery Eliminator Circuit)

uniquely characterized by the fact that the growth rate of a function is directly proportional to the value of the function.

• LED (light- emitting-diode)
• failsafe
• exponential function
• BLHeli

a transistor that uses an electric field to control the shape and hence the electrical conductivity of a channel of one type of charge carrier in a semiconductor material. also known as unipolar transistors and as they involve single-carrier-type operation.

• LiPo (lithium polymer
• mAh (milliampere hours)
• FETs (field effect transistors)
• conductive

permanent software programmed into a read-only memory.

• ohm
• ms (milliseconds)
• firmware
• flashed

a rotating mechanical device that is used to store rotational energy.

• Ohm’s Law
• PDB (power distribution board)
• flywheel
• generator