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I have a WKM on a Droidworx octo HL frame. I have never been able to get the ship stable - been trying for two years. Crashed the ship almost everytime after the rebuild (not from pilot error but ship instability). Very frustrating. I have totally redone the wiring on the last rebuild. Took...

Did you calibrate the ESCs for throttle high and low? You should do that before setting it up. I think with WKM you have to do each ESC separately.

This is great work here. I am using the Replicator 2 (Makerbot) - designed for printing PLA. I used it to design some wheels for the bottom of my threeDee gimbal. 3D printers are great for one-off design projects like this. \ Consider posting your design to Thingiverse. Here are some...

Simple answer - read the manual ...but yes power the WKM directly from your wiring harness and the manual suggests removing the red wire from all your ESCs,

Removing the positive wire on the ESC (except one) is not in manual is it? Does anyone else do this? Is this really a problem if all the ESC's are powering their regs? I am having little jitters no matter how I set the gains so I am wondering if this is the issue.

Don't go by the recommended gains in the manual that suggest something the size of an S800 setup with camera should be over 200. We used those on an octo Droidworx heavy lift and it was way to high - crashed.

In terms of the UI I would suggest unifying the interface between the Hoverfly Pro (gimbal controls) and the Hoverfly Gimbal - I was expecting a similar interface and was surprised when those were so different. For instance sliders rather than number settings (while retaining the option of...

I happened upon this - quite interesting.

I have used Windows and Mac over many years but I always gravitated to Mac - I find the interface more elegant, intuitive and new media is more integrated (e.g. ilife and Final Cut, etc.). All the above comments about lack of software etc. are true but most of us only use our PC with a limited...

That is awesome footage gotaeriallc. Amazingly smooth for raw footage. I would suggest editing that down to 2 minutes of just the best footage and you would have a spectacular piece. Please share a pic of your setup.

...and take out a second mortgage your home.

Okay here is my latest correspond with Hoverfly about limited travel on the tilt servo. Their suggested solution solved the servo movement limitation problem without the workarounds suggested previously - at least for my setup with continuous rotation servos. On 2013-04-11, at 2:48 PM, Ben...

I would say if that manual says "it must be mounted on the camera tray" - that would be official as it gets. It makes sense if you don't have potentiometers on any axis the HFG can't monitor then performance would probably be compromised.

If the servos are 360 continuous rotation (without potentiometers) the manual indicates the HFG must be mounted on the camera mount, so that the board can monitor all axises.

I have just finished my setup with 3 axises 360 servos with no external pots so I have put the HFG on the camera plate (front right). This limits the amount of space for the camera (no room for the video cable) so we will have to use an additional small camera for fpv - this might actually be...

Efliernz, Thanks for the information - that makes so much more sense now. Great information. I think in our case, we will setup the Hoverfly gimbal on the camera plate so that will probably be redundant with the potentiometer.

...so no need for an external potentiometer? Logically I don't see the difference between an internal and an external one (those are both going to be moving relative to the other so .... what is the point?

We have a 3 axis gimbal and wondered about the need for an external potentiometer. We will be using Savox 1258 modified for 360 degrees. We plan to use the Hover-fly gimbal controller. Do we need to use a potentiometer if we are using the gimbal controller to stabilize the camera? Confused.

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My Spekrum 10t supports trainer mode (I think most mid-high end transmitters support this feature - Futaba does as well) - daisy chain transmitters (one for the trainer one for the learner). The other good option is a good simulator - preferably with a multirotor model but helis will be much...