mmeyer
Senior Member
As many of you probably saw i had another thread about my new CF quad with a unique clean plate design here. I took it out for its first flight two days ago and was quite bummed to find it was flying awfully. My first thought that this was due to incorrect pids or some very serious vibration issues. I fiddled with the pids and took it out for another flight. Unfortunately just after take off the two motors shut off for no reason and the quad fell to the ground from about 2 metres. I have no clue why they shut off because they worked perfectly after i power cycled it. It wasn't a bad crash by any stretch of the imagination but the rubber o-rings holding the clean plate broke. I realised that any small crash was going to have this effect and i'm beginning to think that maybe this design is not as good as i might have hoped. So two questions.
1. Should i give up on this design and just change the quad that i have till it works nicely. This would be a real shame as i have put lots of effort into it and i would really like to go further with this design. I just don't want to be replacing o-rings every single time i go down for a tiny crash that would have otherwise had no effect.
2. What could i use instead of the rubber o-rings that may be more durable?
1. Should i give up on this design and just change the quad that i have till it works nicely. This would be a real shame as i have put lots of effort into it and i would really like to go further with this design. I just don't want to be replacing o-rings every single time i go down for a tiny crash that would have otherwise had no effect.
2. What could i use instead of the rubber o-rings that may be more durable?