Not sure if this is any good, but Hobbyking are doing a 30% discount on Turnigy batteries for 2 days.
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It really does burn you out, any longer than 10 minutes is quite mentally demanding and I'm glad to take the goggles off for a short break. Immense fun thoughWhat flight times do you get ?, with two 5000mah I get around 17mins which is plenty as my puny brain cannot cope with the stress of longer.
What makes it even more stupid is that the guy was a government employee, he didn't at any point think "I'm very close to the White House, if something went wrong and I crashed there that would be bad".Ha. Why would you fly a drone there recreationally? o_O
Just recieved the IMAX B6 and my turnigy 5000mah battery, they are quite big
Bigger than a lipo I had years ago
Someone looked at me weird when I took it out the packaging, like I was a terrorist.
What is a safe rate to set my IMAX B6 to charge the Turnigy 4s 5000mah battery? If I remember correctly set to lipo, then 5A, then select 4S ?
Then just red and black output port on the charger will have the leads I am going to butcher from the deans to XT60, which will then plug in to my battery XT60, and then the balance plug from my battery in to the balance port on the charger
What flight times do you get ?, with two 5000mah I get around 17mins which is plenty as my puny brain cannot cope with the stress of longer.
I have turned off voltage limits in Naza and monitor voltage on OSD.
Yep, correct. 5A. Not sure if the B6 will put out 5A though as it's only 50w. Will be fine though.
as per this - just set it to charge or balance charge and it will check the battery type before it starts.
I don't get anywhere near that - at most I think I was getting around 12-13 mins off a single 8400mAh battery but that was with the Naza voltage controls on before I got my iOSD mini which I can now use to monitor the voltage remotely and see if I can safely stay airborne for longer!
That's fair enough though given you're running two 5000's when you get that air time!
A mate did make me a cable to try running two 8400's together but the cable we think was badly wired and got hot very quickly which was bad!
How are your two 5000's wired up? Any pics of the cable you use?
Am tempted to get some extended aluminium arms and different motors and bigger props to get decent run times!
Tonights jobs:
- Cut ends off lipo battery and solder on XT60 connector
- Cut ends of deans connector from IMAX B6 cable and solder on XT60 connector
- Connect some of the servo cables between X8R reciever to the NAZAv2
On NAZA v2 connect the following ports (A, E, T, R, U) to the appropriate channel on X8R
A: - Connect to Channel1 on X8R will map the channel to appropriate stick on TX
E: - Connect to Channel2 on X8R will map the channel to appropriate stick on TX
T: - Connect to Channel3 on X8R will map the channel to appropriate stick on TX
R: - Connect to Channel4 on X8R will map the channel to appropriate stick on TX
U: - Connect to Channel5 on X8R mapped to 3 way switch for flight modes
Maybe a few more bits but not sure yet
Just noticed the weight of the 4S I have is Pack Weight: 552g (is this too heavy for a F450?)
Nah that's well within the weight limits for a 450, it won't be the most agile with the extra weight but it isn't bad by a long shot.Just noticed the weight of the 4S I have is Pack Weight: 552g (is this too heavy for a F450?)
You only need one servo cable between X8R and Naza from memory. This is because it uses SBUS which simplifies it. The rest of the traditional channels (they become ch9-16) can be used for things like lights / video switches / gimbals etc etc.
All basic controls / and flight mode + IOC mode go through this also
You need to bind the X8R to your Tarnis in Mode 4 D16.. (before you bind you have to put two jumpers on to make it do this)
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