Do the motors speed up or slow down??

[BerndM]

When you move the joysticks to move the quad in any direction, forward for example, do the rear motors speed up or do the front motors slow down to get the forward tilt.
Maybe a combination of both?

 

[irvan36mm]

I would think it's a combination of both.
It's kinda like a controlled instability.
You can actually hear a change in motor speeds if you hover close
to you & work the controls one direction at a time.
For example,in order to go forward,similar to tilting the
rotor forward on a heli, the rear motors speed-up and/or the
forward motors slow down.
Thus tilting the nose down & raising the rear..enabling forward motion.

 

[KopterX]

If your rotor has symmetrical configuration, when you move the stick an any direction the motors will equally slow down and speed up proportionally with your stick move. But in the same time all motor will speed up equally to compensate for the loss of height. This is done automatically in ATTI modes. In manual mode you will have to manually compensate this by pushing the throttle.

If you asked this you probably think about trying asymmetrical configurations and i recommend reading and motor-mixer section from manual.

 

[BerndM]

OK guys, thanks for that info.
I sort of guessed that it is a combo situation but it never occurred to me that even though 2 are speeding up and 2 are slowing down, they ALL spped up equally for height stability. That is way kool!