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title: Prop Parking Settings
slug: legacy-docs-gk-3-0/prop-parking-settings
icon: ⚙️
createdAt: 2024-01-14T23:54:46.931Z
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The following settings are related to the prop parking functions on the micro**DRIVE** LP units.
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### Enable Propeller Parking

| **Description** | Enable the propeller parking function. Parking will engage whenever ESC was running, and zero throttle is commanded. |
| --------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **CAN Name**    | PARK\_EN                                                                                                             |
| **Units**       | N/A                                                                                                                  |
| **Advanced**    | YES                                                                                                                  |

### Motor Pole Pairs

| **Description** | Number of motor pole pairs of the connected motor, utilised for scaling eRPM to RPM. |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **CAN Name**    | MOT\_POLE\_PAIRS                                                                     |
| **Units**       | N/A                                                                                  |
| **Advanced**    | NO                                                                                   |

### Propeller Parking Angle Offset

| **Description** | Offset electrical angle after detection of propeller parking position. Fine tuning of final parking location. Allow almost entire rotation for uni-propeller cases. Units are in degrees. |
| --------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **CAN Name**    | PARK\_OFFSET\_ANG                                                                                                                                                                         |
| **Units**       | Units are in degrees (°)                                                                                                                                                                  |
| **Advanced**    | YES                                                                                                                                                                                       |

### Propeller Parking Hall Input

| **Description** | Hall effect input to use for propeller parking. |
| --------------- | ----------------------------------------------- |
| **CAN Name**    | PARK\_HALL\_IN                                  |
| **Units**       | N/A                                             |
| **Advanced**    | YES                                             |

**Value Mappings**:

- 0 -> Hall A
- 1 -> Hall B
- 2 -> Hall C

### Propeller Parking Speed

| **Description** | The speed at which to turn the load while performing parking. |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **CAN Name**    | PARK\_SPEED                                                   |
| **Units**       | Units are in mechanical RPM (RPM)                             |
| **Advanced**    | YES                                                           |

### Propeller Parking Stopping Strength

| **Description** | The amount of power to apply to the bridge when stopping during parking. |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **CAN Name**    | PARK\_STOP\_STR                                                          |
| **Units**       | Units are in percentage of duty cycle (% duty cycle)                     |
| **Advanced**    | YES                                                                      |

### Propeller Parking Timeout

| **Description** | Timeout (in number of rotations) once the propeller parking event begins in the event a sensor isn’t located. Zero corresponds to no timeout. |
| --------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **CAN Name**    | PARK\_TIMEOUT                                                                                                                                 |
| **Units**       | Units are in number of rotations (n rotations)                                                                                                |
| **Advanced**    | YES                                                                                                                                           |

### Propeller Parking Transition Direction

| **Description** | Direction of input state from hall effect sensor to utilise as parked signal. Depending on hall wiring and sensor configuration, either sensor pulled to ground, or pulled to 5V. |
| --------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **CAN Name**    | PARK\_TRANS\_DIR                                                                                                                                                                  |
| **Units**       | N/A                                                                                                                                                                               |
| **Advanced**    | YES                                                                                                                                                                               |

**Value Mappings**:

- 0 -> Low Transition
- 1 -> High Transition

### Propeller Parking Turning Strength

| **Description** | The amount of power to apply to the bridge when turning during parking. |
| --------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **CAN Name**    | PARK\_TURN\_STR                                                         |
| **Units**       | Units are in percentage of duty cycle (% duty cycle)                    |
| **Advanced**    | YES                                                                     |