Ok so I have a bit of a weird issue with my quad now. This piggybacks on my battery selection thread and I thought I fixed the issue when I got a bigger battery. I also went with a traditional quad instead of deadcat which the crius seems to like better.
I took my new quad build on a ATG 650 frame for a short flight yesterday at my father's river house. It went good but I didnt have my FPV system setup yet. So, when it got too close to some tries and was facing me I inadvertantly flew into the tree when attempting to fly away. Anyway, the gembals and gps stablized it nicely but I couldnt see where it went and cut the throttle. A minor crash insued and I bent a prop. I even straightened the prop out afterward and flew it again without any issues other than vibration. I then replaced the prop today.
With the only changes to my quad are the one prop and the FPV transmitter, small battery, and wire connecting to the goprp. I attempted to fly today and the thing will not take off. It simply got off the ground about a couple of inches at full throttle. This happened after flying for about 5 minutes last week at home also and I chaulked it up to low battery.
I have the following setup.
DT700 motors
Turnigy 9x tx set with efsky module.
Hobbyking 20a escs
3000mah 40c lipo
10/4 props.
ATG650 frame.
Options I have considered.
-motors are underpowered
-one esc is bad
-crius megapirate software needs RX calibration after any changes (today I added home as here so it wouldnt to fly 90 miles home and changed failsafe to RTL removed loiter mode and replaced it with auto mode.)
Is there any options I have missed? I am really thinking hard on replacing the motors with some NTMs and the escs with plushes. However, I think first I want to build a smaller quad like a 350 to learn more with prior to flying the big one. It is still plenty big to use a gopro.
I took my new quad build on a ATG 650 frame for a short flight yesterday at my father's river house. It went good but I didnt have my FPV system setup yet. So, when it got too close to some tries and was facing me I inadvertantly flew into the tree when attempting to fly away. Anyway, the gembals and gps stablized it nicely but I couldnt see where it went and cut the throttle. A minor crash insued and I bent a prop. I even straightened the prop out afterward and flew it again without any issues other than vibration. I then replaced the prop today.
With the only changes to my quad are the one prop and the FPV transmitter, small battery, and wire connecting to the goprp. I attempted to fly today and the thing will not take off. It simply got off the ground about a couple of inches at full throttle. This happened after flying for about 5 minutes last week at home also and I chaulked it up to low battery.
I have the following setup.
DT700 motors
Turnigy 9x tx set with efsky module.
Hobbyking 20a escs
3000mah 40c lipo
10/4 props.
ATG650 frame.
Options I have considered.
-motors are underpowered
-one esc is bad
-crius megapirate software needs RX calibration after any changes (today I added home as here so it wouldnt to fly 90 miles home and changed failsafe to RTL removed loiter mode and replaced it with auto mode.)
Is there any options I have missed? I am really thinking hard on replacing the motors with some NTMs and the escs with plushes. However, I think first I want to build a smaller quad like a 350 to learn more with prior to flying the big one. It is still plenty big to use a gopro.