Given up with Naza

mrloudly

Member
Have come to the conclusion this FC is not good...

Initially built a 450 with GPS and it flew superbly for a while. After about ten flights the model started glitching which led to a prang....
Anyhow repaired the bird and, after researching the problem, removed all of the bullet connectors and soldered the joints. It still played up so I
swapped the motors and esc's with new ones, still no good.... Next I swapped the V-Sen LED unit but... no good...
At this point I was completely fed up, so decided to give the product another go with a new 550 setup. New controller motors/esc's the lot. Built her up and
all worked superbly. Manual, Attitude, GPS and failsafe all worked a treat with no glitches whatsoever, hurraahhh!! Flying yesterday in GPS mode it decides to flip on it's back and pile in, wrecked...
Post crash investigation reveals two dead motors, strange... Truth is, it would be strange if they both had died at the same time but they hadn't, the motor signal output from the NAZA is dead on motors
1 and 6 hence the violent flip! It'd been flying perfectly for two weeks up to this point...
(I'll just add that all the joints were also soldered on the 550).
Anyhow, I had laying around a $12 Hobby King FC board. I replaced the $200 Naza unit with this on the first troublesome quad and guess what? Fly's perfect no glitching...

I've been flying heli's for thirty years and can honestly say I've never had problems with a product like I've experienced here, I'm out! (Align 3G wasn't clever, but at least it stayed in the air!)

DX18 AR7600 4S 3300ma 25-50C

Andy M
 

Tahoe Ed

Active Member
Andy, sorry to hear about your experience. It is not typical of the normal Naza owner. Have you contacted your dealer for warranty repair or have them do an investigation into what is going on? If they are unresponsive, I would contact DJI directly.
 

helloman1976

Ziptie Relocation Expert
Personally I love the NAZA despite it's very minor faults. There are such things as faulty units however so take that into account. If you want to go to another controller consider the CC3D controller and check out the Openpilot website for details. Again, I love my Naza and would fly with nothing else and I'm sorry you are having issues with it. Good luck!
 

mrloudly

Member
Thanks guys... I always find warrantee claims dubious with RC kit... After all you're only likely to claim after a prang on which they invariably will blame the initial fault...

That's what I thought Ed, it's not normal... Hence "taking a bite of the old sandwich" and trying again. To get stitched twice has killed it for me, especially after a $12 bit of kit works with the failed quad mechanics! (With no mechanical changes...)

It's not as if I haven't tried, I paid out the best part of $400 to start again afresh yet still had problems... As I said, with the greatest respect, I'm not a "Noob", but have never experienced anything like this...

Andy M


Have to say as well, jeez the Goblin felt lively after flying these for a while :)
 

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