Multirotor, multicopter and quadcopter discussion - The Drone thread

The full version has a baro and mag sensor. I've not played with mine yet but they will need their PID's tuning, same as all the other features.

Should, in theory, give better consistency at holding altitude and course.

I'd get the Acro personally, I only got the full one as I was curious about the mag & baro hold.

You don't need the breakout cable but it saves making up one yourself, unless your receiver can do CPPM?

The Naze RX inputs only have 1 power and ground. For the other channels, you just connect the signal pin. CPPM pushes all the channels down 1 connection, so you only need 1 cable.

2 other things.....

the pins will need to be soldered on, so you will need a soldering iron with a fairly fine tip and a steady hand. Or get one of the ones available with pins already soldered. I think makeitbuildit offer this option.

Get the straight pins if it's for a mini quad (250) the angled ones will end up sticking out of the side of the quad otherwise!
 
gandhi said:
The full version has a baro and mag sensor. I've not played with mine yet but they will need their PID's tuning, same as all the other features.

Should, in theory, give better consistency at holding altitude and course.

I'd get the Acro personally, I only got the full one as I was curious about the mag & baro hold.

You don't need the breakout cable but it saves making up one yourself, unless your receiver can do CPPM?

The Naze RX inputs only have 1 power and ground. For the other channels, you just connect the signal pin. CPPM pushes all the channels down 1 connection, so you only need 1 cable.

2 other things.....

the pins will need to be soldered on, so you will need a soldering iron with a fairly fine tip and a steady hand. Or get one of the ones available with pins already soldered. I think makeitbuildit offer this option.

Get the straight pins if it's for a mini quad (250) the angled ones will end up sticking out of the side of the quad otherwise!
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Thanks for the info, soldering isn't an issue unfortunately my X8R RX isn't CPPM as far as i'm aware.

Ended up ordering one from HK with breakout cable etc.
 
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Looks like a no go anyway, as its full of rugby and football pitches and the rugby season for the local club starts... tomorrow :(.
 
OK the rubber feet for the camera mount on the carbon frames are less than useless! Every time I made a less than perfect landing they either detached or broke. I've lost one and 2 others are damaged beyond use. There must be a better way? How are other people mounting small cameras with vibration dampening?
 
Ran with it mounted directly to the frame for a few flights and it doesn't wobble the image too much, but it just buzzes like a ****. Ill use velcro to give a buffer.

Also, has anyone run double batteries? I could easily fit 2 1300mah batteries on the frame. I wonder wether the weight penalty counteracts the added life?
 
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Bit the bullet yesterday and bought a LaTrax Alias. Also learned a harsh lesson within 5 minutes... Now whilst I consider myself a quad noob, I'm not entirely incompetent and have been flying a Hubsan Q4 indoors for a month or so.

After spending a couple of minutes at my in laws back garden (its' huge) getting a feel for the Alias in easy I switched to the first expert mode and started playing with a few flips and gradually gained confidence. Then, my first outdoor flight took a turn for the worse. The wind picked up and literally swatted the quad. I tried my best but frankly panicked a little in the moment and since it was pointing the 'wrong' way I turned the wrong way into the wind and ended up about 50ft in the top of an Oak tree.

Was absolutely gutted - managed to get it down in the end with some ladders and there wasn't a bit of damage, but it brought home to me how quickly and easily it can go wrong. Will be keeping it nice and low in the future if flying in the wind and writing my phone number on the underside of all the props!

On the upside, I took it for a gentle night flight later on and that was brilliant. Love how well it lights up the ground, looks like a properly little UFO. :)
 
^^ A brushless mini quad around the same size, at 5x the mass and 10x the thrust will cut the wind much better ;)

da_ging said:
balance your props and just use velcro, works great with my mobius camera.

And anyone buying bits for a 250 may find this banggood UK thread useful, although props are cheaper at makeitbuildit the frames and 1806 motors are good deals.
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2240158
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I read somewhere that Banggood were selling sub par/fake RCX motors. Maybe they've bucked up their ideas...
 
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