...after an entire afternoon trying to get a motor to talk to a F(uck)UTABA transmitter?
Achilles heel seems to be the lack of instruction from the suppliers, which frankly could have stayed in the mandarin without making a difference on the day.
Principally the side of that ESC that you need to see is hidden from view, beside the fact the single lead emerging from it bears no relation to the five wires that do.
Thankfully (and doubtless reluctantly) there's a video now from which the lower image is cut. Looking at it, I realise with Dumbledore's hat on what I may have been missing.
The text accompanying the upper image appears to say the throttle is calibrated after two beeps from a motor connected to receiver Port 3 (which is normally attributed to throttle settings).
An addendum however suggests this is much too easy for the 80A ESC, which must presumably be programmed with the three wires marked 'Programming' on the video.
Your mission Jim, should you choose to accept it, is to find out which port that plugs into and then try again.
Three takeaways from this though:
Firstly I spent a lifetime flying airliners, something that when made as complicated as possible was considered a positive virtue by its proponents.
Secondly I'd a brush with computing, which all now agree should be made as simple as possible if we're going to buy millions of smartphones every day.
Thirdly, Chinese firm DJI captured 80% of a global market by making drones fly out the box.
Management guru Peter Drucker suggests the role of companies is to organise things for us so that we don't have to: and why you sleep securely at night whilst I grapple with this shit.
Many of you ~ yeah, right ~ will have been wondering what a yellow Return Back Wire could possibly do. ESCs basically send broad-brush instructions down the line to fast motors like these that drive propellers, but require information in return from motors operating relatively slowly like those driving RC cars.