Jo's squadron
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I did try that
Building my first 5" FPV drone
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Houndpup Rc
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Shouldn't....Try the command line command: status and paste that here
Jo's squadron
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Not sure I understand were that is.
Jo's squadron
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Well not sure how but i got it to arm!!
Houndpup Rc
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That' good! might be you had it on a tilted surface? (Or you just have to let the stuff calibrate in the fc first) That can also happen if you have your throttle raised....
Jo's squadron
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I recalibrated and also did something in cli while watching a Joshua Bardwell video.
Houndpup Rc
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Well glad you got it working!👍
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That's all for today. Tomorrow is hover test and then install VTX.
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Yeah me too! It has been harder than I expected 😅
Fun fact this is my 1000 message!
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Houndpup Rc
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IMPORTANT! Don't forget to set you motor direction and layout before trying to raise the drone! Otherwise the drone will somersault...HARD!😂😂 (Don't ask me how I know🤣)
Houndpup Rc
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But now you know how to do it!😁👍
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So I went to maiden and it flew but the throttle was very laggy and it was overall not smooth. And the motors got hot and the battery got drained pretty fast. Not sure what is going on.
Any idea how to fix this @LitterBug and @Houndpup Rc ?
Any idea how to fix this @LitterBug and @Houndpup Rc ?
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So I tried again with a newer battery (the one from the maiden was from 2018) and now it just flew away Well not actually but as soon as I armed it started climbing so I disarmed therefor resulting in the drone crashing down, thankfully it looks ok apart from being a little dirty. But why did it fly away?
Well not actually but as soon as I armed it started climbing so I disarmed therefor resulting in the drone crashing down, thankfully it looks ok apart from being a little dirty. But why did it fly away?
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Ok so after asking a bunch of question to Gemini AI I lowered some PID to 0.8 and then lowered the D term lowpass 1 to 75hz and D term lowpass 2 to 150hz, and I put a healthy amount of throttle expo. And now it finally feels smooth and controllable!
Houndpup Rc
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Yup, drones draw a tone of amps (up to 140 on a full throttle punch out!) so ya need a decent battery👍👍 And don't worry about your drone falling on on the ground...I have disarmed mine accidentally instead of hitting position hold off and it fell form like 60ft without any damage! (Worse case scenario is a broken gopro mount or arm foot thingy, but you can get those cheap all over eBay and such👍 (Or even better, get someone to 3D print you one if you don't have a 3D printer..TPU is best as it will likely never break again!)So I tried again with a newer battery (the one from the maiden was from 2018) and now it just flew away
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I HAVE FINALLY FINISHED IT!!! I got to fly it FPV this evening and man that thing is powerful!
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I really like OSD, super useful.
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Thanks again for your help @Houndpup Rc and @LitterBug !
Houndpup Rc
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Nice! Yup, these babies aren't lacking when it comes to powa!😂😂 (Imagine 6s.....)
Houndpup Rc
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No prob! Glad I could help👍
