Versa Copter Naze set up

[William A]

In clean flight on the configuration tab near the bottom of the page is "Receiver failsafe" you check the box then set a throttle value. I use to set a throttle value that was just below hover to bring the quad down slow, however it was brought to my attention that this could A) cause the quad to drift away on dissent and make finding it harder and B) cause an esc fire potentially if a prop /motor were to get jammed up(unlikely but better safe than sorry). So now i set mine to 1000 below the minimum value that starts the motor spinning.

What is your Rx going to do when it loses Tx signal ?

 

[MototechRyan]

Thanks craftydan. My interest in quads is purely acro and fpv racing. So not planning on gps, telemetry, or any fancy stuff. Telemetry would be nice for knowing battery voltage. But hoping i can set my fpv up with a battery voltage alarm either within view or audio of the cam. So im cool with using the uart for the satellite rx.

I did recently see a video on youtube showing the pins to connect a satellite rx to on a naze FC, but the fc was running mutiwii. I would like to run clean flight though. All my experience thus far is with FC's running multiwii, so i know my way around the program. But from what ive seen in the Flite Test build video, clean flight seams more intuitive. Is it possible to connect to the pins like in the video below, or is that only possible with multiwii?

https://youtu.be/ajod9Uly9H8

Edit: i dont know why i assumed the guy in the youtube vid wss running mutiwii. After reading the video comments i see hes running clean flight. Rock on

 

[Craftydan]

. . . I was about to say . . . Multwii can't run on a Naze board -- wrong processor . . . but that should get you going. You should find a lot of things familiar with Multiwii, and quite a few things improved.

If you ever do want to setup an OSD, it can be done on UART1, but it has to share, so the OSD won't work until the quad is armed, and when you're plugged into USB on the bench, it'll drop offline when you arm -- a workable tradeoff. Add much more than that and you'd have to move to a better (and more expensive) board. In the mean time, the poor-man's OSD should be more than enough.

 

[MototechRyan]

Just found out last night the most recent naze32 1.10 firmware in cleanflight is not working for the rev 6 boards. I flashed the firmware to this in cleanflight and my rev 6 naze had a constant blinking green light. Tilting the FC on it axis was not being reflected on screen in cleanflight either. Then i found an article on multicopter about the most recent firmware not working for rev 6 and they aiming for the 1.11 firmware to work with it.

Flashing back to stock firmware with baseflight got it working again. Not a big deal, just hope i dont have to wait to long to use cleanflight with my rev 6 board.

 

[MototechRyan]

I should be shot. I have been really busy lately and havent had time to give the FC a good look over...and just noticed it has a connection for spektrum sat rx's

http://forum.flitetest.com/album.php?albumid=477&attachmentid=55357

I would like to add a connector but dont want to wait for some to be delivered. Gonna desolder the connector in my spektrum AR7010 rx and use that one.

 

[tegs]

Just found out last night the most recent naze32 1.10 firmware in cleanflight is not working for the rev 6 boards. I flashed the firmware to this in cleanflight and my rev 6 naze had a constant blinking green light. Tilting the FC on it axis was not being reflected on screen in cleanflight either. Then i found an article on multicopter about the most recent firmware not working for rev 6 and they aiming for the 1.11 firmware to work with it.

Flashing back to stock firmware with baseflight got it working again. Not a big deal, just hope i dont have to wait to long to use cleanflight with my rev 6 board.

I just went through this same issue with the rev6 board and cleanflight not working and I was able to fix it by downloading a newer firmware naze32 hexfile that you have to load in manually.
http://api.viglink.com/api/click?format=go&jsonp=vglnk_144512343743915&key=8a24c98a696b4e5723db293f62190b87&libId=ifvou8bx010004o4000DLburp3qe0&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rcgroups.com%2Fforums%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D2509020&v=1&out=http%3A%2F%2Fcleanflight.memoryleaks.org%2Fbuilds%2Fcleanflight_cleanflight%2F2015-09-19%2F2147_805ee8c_travis_cleanflight_NAZE.hex&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&title=Got%20A%20Naze32%20Rev6%20Here%20-%20RC%20Groups&txt=http%3A%2F%2Fcleanflight.memoryleaks.org%2Fb...light_NAZE.hex