Multirotor, multicopter and quadcopter discussion - The Drone thread

When I added my FPV and Low Bat thingy I just daisy chained it by making my own cables using wiring from an old PSU and some connectors I bought from some welsh guy on the Bay. I wouldn't mess with the Li-Po balance cable.
 
Who said the Naze32 was easy to set up?? Ive spent hours trying to configure this and its giving me a headache :(

I'm tempted to cut my loses on it and order a KK mini.
 
gandhi said:
Is the power that much cleaner off the balance lead then? I.E unaffected by the eddies from the ESC's and other bits?
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Its better, although I expect still affected. The Fatshark kits have a filter that connects to the balance lead, which is going to be about as good as your going to get using a flight battery.

How reliable are the simonk Afro ESCs inbuilt voltage alarms?
 
Skeeter said:
Its better, although I expect still affected. The Fatshark kits have a filter that connects to the balance lead, which is going to be about as good as your going to get using a flight battery.

How reliable are the simonk Afro ESCs inbuilt voltage alarms?
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Cheers for the info.

Not sure about the afro ESC alarm. If they don't have a dedicated buzzer, they're not going to be that audible I doubt.
 
Issues?? I'm having elderly ones :)

Motors are all configured, I just calibrated the esc's. But cant get it to arm. The receiver info responds on screen, ie forward/back raw left/right etc shows ok, but wont do anything when its unplugged.

I know its something simple but cant suss it :confused:

There seems to be soooo much to set up compared to the KK board.
 
Im using baseflight (the chrome app). The firmware was updated to 'October 22' when I first used it, im guessing this is the latest one.

Im using a Devo 7e tx and compatible receiver at the moment. It might just be the settings on this that need changing.


Ive got work in a while so Ill try again tomorrow.
 
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If it's working in baseflight gui, the naze & rx are powering up when you plug the battery in and the ESC's are doing their start-up beeps then it should work.

Things I would do are; (apologies if you've done some of this already)

1) Check ARM hasn't been assigned to an AUX switch (unless you want it to be)

2) Go to the receiver tab in bf, the ranges should go from 1000-2000 on all channels and sit at 1500 when centered. If they don't subtrim the tx until they do. Check they don't need reversing (I have missed this before as some do on the taranis/d4rII)

4) The board won't arm if the throttle input from the rx isn't below the value set for mincheck. You can only check or alter this value in the CLI.

5) Board also wont arm if it's at a greater than 25 degree angle from horizontal.

6) Might be worth going into the AUX tab and setting arm for a switch and see if that works?

Would be good to see a dump from your CLI and some screenies if none of that helps.
 
gandhi said:
Cheers for the info.

Not sure about the afro ESC alarm. If they don't have a dedicated buzzer, they're not going to be that audible I doubt.
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They can be pretty loud. However reading up, they don't have an alarm, they have audible error codes. If they start beeping in flight you have bigger issues than just low battery voltage.
 
I just got a new mini-quad, and I have to say; this thing is bloody fantastic. It's really, really stable and much easier to fly than the Hubsan X4. It takes the same batteries as the Hubsan too, so I'm covered there. Build quality seems OK and it has lots of lights. Extremely quiet too.

So, may I introduce my new favourite mini multirotor and the one I will now be recommending as a good first multirotor. The Syma X4 Gyro. £30 from the usual places.

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