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Ummm... because I enjoy the challenge...? Truth is, on those occasions when everything is working right it does fly quite nicely and at the very least it makes for a pretty darn good although expensive FPV flight controller. But for use as a professional grade APV flight controller, well I'm...

No, 5 volts isn't enough juice, I doubt the LEDs would even light up if you tried to power them off that feed. Most of the ones I have won't even begin to throw off any light until at least 7 or 8 volts. Hang on a minute here while I go check on something, I think I may have the answer you're...

This is what the Hisight II mount on my Hoverfly quad started doing on power up after upgrading to the newest version of firmware. Someday I might actually be able to use this thing, but I'm not holding my breath waiting... :rolleyes:

As long as you keep it to no more than 6 LEDs to a strip you can power them right off the servo connector on the flight controller. If you want more than that you'll need something like the CC BEC where you can set the voltage although that only goes up to 9 volts which should be enough...

I believe he's referring to RallyMatt who does get some amazing results with very basic equipment, sometimes not even using a mount, the camera hard mounted to the frame! Often times its not the equipment you're using but how you fly it that makes the difference and Matt is a great example of...

For the AV130 you're used to, yes the settings are probably too high, BUT the correct setting varies by mount and which servos are being used. The only way to really know what the correct settings are is to set that particular mount up properly. The compensation really has little to do with...

I was out back trying it out earlier today with one of the mini quads. Used a pile of patio blocks I have stacked over next to the house as the table taking off from there and landing on a slightly bald spot on the lawn about 20 feet away. Only real difficulty was the D**m gardner didn't mow the...

If the MK flys level as it is now then you don't need to do or redo the Acc calibration, it only needs to be done once during setup or redone after a rebuild or R & R of the flight control board. Acc calibration is throttle stick full up and full right yaw, BUT do not do this unless the MK is...

Don't know if I do or not, I'll have to check my digital photo repository. The board is currently buried in the bowels of the Droidworx Hexa heavy lifter (hows that for trust!) so not much chance of taking one until the next time I have opportunity to be under the hood taking the boards off the...

You did remember to initialize the gyros (full throttle plus full left yaw) after the power cycle didn't you? The camera servos won't work until you do... Ken

Ok, it depends on what I wanted to do with it! I'd use a different board for APV vs. sport flying and potentially yet another one if all I had in mind was flying FPV. Or you could just do like I seem to be doing lately and buy at least one of each type and build a frame to put it on. So...

Previously I had servo power coming through the MK flight controller and that is current limited to the 1 or 1 1/2 amps the Recom is capable of providing, so if you have a heavy load on the mount and both servos are trying to move it at the same time there isn't enough current available to do...

Just an FYI, over the weekend I got my hands on a CC BEC and wired it up on my standard Hexa with the AV 130, substantial difference in performance. Still not anything close to "right" but overall a remarkable difference in roll and tilt centering with 6 volts and the servos able to draw as much...

It's like building any other quad really, only difference is the GUI to setup the board is somewhat different from anything else I've seen but easily mastered after the third or fourth time through it. Once I figured out what the CC board was fighting with in the rest of the electronic bits it...

That's rather interesting, I never actually noticed the different setup of the arms on the D/W Octo, I actually think it would fly a little bit better like that! Dave you're 100% correct though that it's much easier to just tweak the direction of the arrow in the mixer table than start...

I have one of those boards also, has over 1000 minutes of flight time on it last time I checked in MKtool. When I head about the 000 resistor bodge I did the fixes as Mr Crash suggests and it hasn't had an issue. If I remember correctly I used little pieces of solder wick to replace the 000...

The only thing that should happen is both functions get turned on and off at the same time. What might happen is if you don't know that CF is attached to the same switch as the GPS, you may get awfully confused about why the MK doesn't respond correctly to the sticks if you try to move it in any...

I'll get to that as soon as I finish the build of the new quad frame for the Quadrino, almost done just have to fab a wiring harness for the battery to ESC hookup and then test fly it. Yes Dave, I built yet another quad, currently at 8 ready to fly multirotors and heading for 10 or maybe I'll...

Castle has two BEC that will do the job, I've looked at them in the LHS but haven't bought one yet. There is the CC BEC and the CC BEC Pro, the CC BEC will do the job. It can handle 2S to 6S input, is adjustable from 4.8 to 9 volts and is good for 10 amps which is just right for the two Savox...

First find out if what I asked about the servo is unique to that servo or if it happens with either. What you need for power is an adjustable voltage regulator or a standalone 6 volt BEC that can handle up to 10 amps of curent draw, you may have an easier time of finding a BEC. Castle makes one...