My Mini Quad (Fail) Now my Hawksky Stabilizer Begin at post #22
I have been building a mini quad loosely based on the one that David W. built. I have a Hobby King V2.1 board and flashed it with QuadControllerV4_7_X_M168_M328.hex . I have two strange issues.
1. The Motors in the X diagram are numbered starting at the upper left #1, Upper Right #2, Lower Right #3 and Lower Left #4.
This motor configuration DID NOT WORK!
My motors are numbered like the like plus diagram but turned 45 degrees counter clockwise: And they work correctly.
Upper left #1
Lower Left #2
Upper right #3
Lower right #4
They respond correctly with the + numbering convention but in X configuration ie
Right on Aileron stick speeds up motors 1 and 2
Left on Aileron stick speeds up 3 and 4
Forward on Elevator speeds up 2 and 4
Back on Elevator speeds up 1 and 3
Left Rudder speeds up 1 and 4
Right rudder speeds up 2 and 3
Edit: I opened the file QuadControllerV4_7_X.asm and it does indicate the motor mapping as I found it rather than as it is listed everywhere in the X diagrams. For this software:
1 is upper left
2 is lower left
3 is upper right
4 is lower right
End edit
The other issue I have is motor 4 does not start till 1/2 throttle even after calibrating the esc's. (I can swap plugs so a different esc and motor emulate motor 4 and the problem moves to the new motor esc pair.
Any ideas?
Thurmond
I have been building a mini quad loosely based on the one that David W. built. I have a Hobby King V2.1 board and flashed it with QuadControllerV4_7_X_M168_M328.hex . I have two strange issues.
1. The Motors in the X diagram are numbered starting at the upper left #1, Upper Right #2, Lower Right #3 and Lower Left #4.
This motor configuration DID NOT WORK!
My motors are numbered like the like plus diagram but turned 45 degrees counter clockwise: And they work correctly.
Upper left #1
Lower Left #2
Upper right #3
Lower right #4
They respond correctly with the + numbering convention but in X configuration ie
Right on Aileron stick speeds up motors 1 and 2
Left on Aileron stick speeds up 3 and 4
Forward on Elevator speeds up 2 and 4
Back on Elevator speeds up 1 and 3
Left Rudder speeds up 1 and 4
Right rudder speeds up 2 and 3
Edit: I opened the file QuadControllerV4_7_X.asm and it does indicate the motor mapping as I found it rather than as it is listed everywhere in the X diagrams. For this software:
1 is upper left
2 is lower left
3 is upper right
4 is lower right
End edit
The other issue I have is motor 4 does not start till 1/2 throttle even after calibrating the esc's. (I can swap plugs so a different esc and motor emulate motor 4 and the problem moves to the new motor esc pair.
Any ideas?
Thurmond
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