Multirotor, multicopter and quadcopter discussion - The Drone thread

ArchAnGeL · 14 Oct 2016 at 10:44

After the crash at the end of this I ended up with a broken motor

^can't get embedded working?

Avoided the like for like replacement and upgraded to 30A little bee ESC's and Emax RS2205 2300KV red bottoms

First flight after work!

agnes · 14 Oct 2016 at 11:46

Pop, getting pictures for the build log on RC forums, this one made me giggle.

gandhi · 14 Oct 2016 at 12:02

I can smell the magic smoke from here!

agnes · 14 Oct 2016 at 12:16

gandhi said:
I can smell the magic smoke from here!

It lingered for a while. Very distinct smell haha.

ArchAnGeL · 14 Oct 2016 at 18:17

Flow it - well, teleported it. Speed is ridiculous

gandhi · 14 Oct 2016 at 23:11

Lol. Come back when you've flown it on 4s and tell us it's quick.

agnes · 15 Oct 2016 at 00:20

My ESC's have got the usual signal and ground wires. Where on the Diatone V2.2 PDB can I place said ground wires? I'd rather not cut them at the base and have only signal, as the ground is wrapped around the signal, shielding it essentially.

Thanks

Bigpops · 15 Oct 2016 at 01:13

gandhi said:
Lol. Come back when you've flown it on 4s and tell us it's quick.

I was just going to say.. If he thinks that's quick, he has no idea.

agnes · 15 Oct 2016 at 02:21

Bigpops said:
I was just going to say.. If he thinks that's quick, he has no idea.

I'm slightly worried at having gone straight for 4S lol.

Cyclone · 15 Oct 2016 at 07:47

The latest video from Flite Test regarding the Mavic.

Delvis · 15 Oct 2016 at 08:56

agnes said:
I'm slightly worried at having gone straight for 4S lol.

You'll be fine

3S soon seems too sluggish!

As for the ground wire do you have a pic? If it's a PDB you should have ground next to where the signal goes in?

agnes · 15 Oct 2016 at 11:53

Delvis said:
You'll be fine 3S soon seems too sluggish!

As for the ground wire do you have a pic? If it's a PDB you should have ground next to where the signal goes in?

Asked a youtuber renown for the electronics side, he said place the ground on the negative terminal for the ESC power. Tested with one ESC. All good, all now wired up and working fine

Bigpops · 15 Oct 2016 at 12:01

agnes said:
I'm slightly worried at having gone straight for 4S lol.

If you're really worried, limit the travel adjust on your throttle curve so it only gives out 75% throttle at the top end.

That way full stick will be 75%, going linearly to 0% as you drop the stick.

Video guide if you happen to have a Taranis. Principle is the same on all radios:

gandhi · 15 Oct 2016 at 12:32

You might as well learn on 4s. You don't have to fly at full tilt the whole time and the extra power is great for pulling yourself out of sticky of situations, like punching out over trees.

When you're under the goggles, 3s seems quite slow if you're in an open space.

Just keep calm and breathe!

Delvis · 15 Oct 2016 at 17:35

Ahhh yes, pretty much nearly past out the first time as I wasn't breathing properly

agnes · 15 Oct 2016 at 19:21

I thought I could limit in CleanFlight? I was intending on assigning one of the switches (3 stage one) to different levels. Such as up = 100%, middle = 75% and bottom = 50%.

Is that possible?

spookywillow · 15 Oct 2016 at 19:57

Just got a Photoshop / Lightroom trial to see how good it is and here's a couple of photo's that I couldn't manage to get right before.

Cyclone · 15 Oct 2016 at 20:15

Nice pics Spooky

Delvis · 15 Oct 2016 at 23:29

agnes said:
I thought I could limit in CleanFlight? I was intending on assigning one of the switches (3 stage one) to different levels. Such as up = 100%, middle = 75% and bottom = 50%.

Is that possible?

I niece you may be able to....think you have the option is betaflight....bit of a faff though ?

TheOtherOption · 16 Oct 2016 at 13:21

Anyone going to the Commercial UAV show in London next week? I'll be there on Thursday wondering about the exhibition - shame DJI don't appear to have a stand this year but then again their stand last year was pretty small and didn't have much to look at - would've liked a Matrice 600 to take a look at up close!