I'm building a tricopter with a vibration dampened top plate. I'd like my flight controller to be on the vibration dampened plate but I also would like it to have some protection so I'm thinking of mounting it on the underside of the plate rather than the top.
Anyone have any experience with using a flight controller mounted upside down?
Two parts, by estimation:
One, I am substantially neophytic but it appears that almost any generally current flight controller can be mounted in nearly any orientation with appropriate offset values, (meaning turn the board 90° to the right, enter appropriate 90° offset in yaw, etc.).
The two greatest in question that I think of would be Naza or
KK(2.1), which in both cases appears would almost entirely be limited by the firmware/OS/software it's self. It does appear to be indicated that the
OpenAero software for KK2.1 may include these settings or in a more complete manner than Steveis or RC911. The Naza I do not know of.
The least seems to be known about whether there is or would be any effect on the dynamic performance of any flight board fixed in something other than the default flat, arrow forward orientation, or yawed at most (which most people seem to agree is okay).
Upside down, (180° roll or pitch) next to yaw, does seem to be one of the more common re/orientations.
Two, as a guess, if a board were on the bottom of a v-dampened plate and an impact would cause clearance issues with the underneath, then mounting it that way would not seem to help it a lot.
For just board protection any bump-worthy material could be formed into a rectangle at one or either end of the board and attached with hot glue, double side tape, or even velcro or regular tape. Or, as mentioned, hardware, plate, case, etc.
Sorry to force the reading of all these useless words, as there are clearly far too many.
In summary, though it was not technically, literally asked "
Can this be done?" it appears the short answer
with almost any flight board is "
Yes."