Cheshirecat
Member
OK i am close to shouting at passing cars here.
I am sure i am missing something...But what is it???
I am trying to setup a custom mix in the WKM Assistant (Herkules Double Decker quad arrangement) this is know other have done successfully.
i all the motors physically arranged and wired correctly and these work properly with motor test and CSC with the default DJI Octo Coax mixer.
When i go into the custom mixer to setup the Andreas Baier non standard motor mix, the assistant software very cheerfully pops up a box telling me the Gimbal function has been closed to prevent the motor from rotating, the motors on F1 and F2
After entering the custom mixer values for all 8 motors and true to it's word i find the motor test only fires up motors 1-6 but not 7 and 8, this is also true when i do the CSC, motors 1-6 spin up at 100% Throttle (regardless of the TX stick position, which no longer has any bearing on the speed of the motors) and 7 & 8 do not start.
I have tried a full system reboot and Assistant software relaunch after setting the custom mixer values, no improvement.
I am using firmware 5.26, the ESC is a Herkules III, the TX a Futaba T14SG set to 14 Channel Fasstest and the receiver a Futaba R7008SB connected to the WKM By S-Bus. I am not using the F1 and F2 WKM Channel for Gimbal control and have that function switched off in the Assistant software.
If i switch on gimbal control Motors 7 and 8 spin up on their own but that bit i understand.
If i go back to the default DJI Octo Coax mixer everything works as it should, i want to adopt this mixer setup as it offers better yaw stability in the event of a motor failure (something i experienced recently)
So can anybody in the collective global brain that is Multirotorforums point out what this dummy is missing??? whilst i go out and shout at a tree that has been staring at me for the last hour:livid:
I am sure i am missing something...But what is it???
I am trying to setup a custom mix in the WKM Assistant (Herkules Double Decker quad arrangement) this is know other have done successfully.
i all the motors physically arranged and wired correctly and these work properly with motor test and CSC with the default DJI Octo Coax mixer.
When i go into the custom mixer to setup the Andreas Baier non standard motor mix, the assistant software very cheerfully pops up a box telling me the Gimbal function has been closed to prevent the motor from rotating, the motors on F1 and F2
After entering the custom mixer values for all 8 motors and true to it's word i find the motor test only fires up motors 1-6 but not 7 and 8, this is also true when i do the CSC, motors 1-6 spin up at 100% Throttle (regardless of the TX stick position, which no longer has any bearing on the speed of the motors) and 7 & 8 do not start.
I have tried a full system reboot and Assistant software relaunch after setting the custom mixer values, no improvement.
I am using firmware 5.26, the ESC is a Herkules III, the TX a Futaba T14SG set to 14 Channel Fasstest and the receiver a Futaba R7008SB connected to the WKM By S-Bus. I am not using the F1 and F2 WKM Channel for Gimbal control and have that function switched off in the Assistant software.
If i switch on gimbal control Motors 7 and 8 spin up on their own but that bit i understand.
If i go back to the default DJI Octo Coax mixer everything works as it should, i want to adopt this mixer setup as it offers better yaw stability in the event of a motor failure (something i experienced recently)
So can anybody in the collective global brain that is Multirotorforums point out what this dummy is missing??? whilst i go out and shout at a tree that has been staring at me for the last hour:livid:
