Hi Everyone,
Well after taking about a week to pull my head out of my 4th point of contact, I was able to get my naza configures correctly and I was in the air for my maiden. It was super stable but had a few times where I got very small oscillation and just chalked it up to gain. Well on a rapid decent my quad does a fill CCW rotation and lands on its top. After looking at everything I'm pretty sure it was a prop coming loose -lesson learned: use threadlock. Video Below
So I take it up after that and thier is a little of a droning noise I can hear and the performance is less then a smooth. Small pitching motions that I really dont feel great with but I am actually able to get some decent forward flight at the field when I tone the gains down a little bit.
Well this morning I am at my house trying to get some nice aerial shots from above the trees in my back yard and when I decide to take it down all of a sudden I get the horrible rocking and when I try to correct it the whole thing pitched CW and makes a horrible scream (on video...I couldn't hear it from where I was flying) and rockets into the trees. Although the video of me trying to get it is hilarious to my better half, the cause of the failure is troubling to me. Video Below
So I think it is maybe an esc calibration thing, I go one by one on the ESCs and calibrate them. Back in the air I go...but MUCH lower. I try to test things out and after getting into the yaw a little but - BAM - CW roll and she is down. Video Below
So just to check everything out I take her up again over a sandy bit in my year and at about a foot off the ground I see the quad to a hand stand on the right rear motor - scream some ungodly noise - and then after I cut the throttle It puts itself back on the ground. Video Below
I have two concerns
1. What the heck is causing this? Did I bang up a motor on my initial crash and are the bearings just deciding when the want to go?
2. I hear a knocking sound when the motors are at low speeds almost like cogging, should I be concerned?
Any help you guys can offer would be outstanding, my FPV gear will be here next week and would like to be able to fly without KNOWING that it is just a matter of time before my quad decides to take a dirt nap. Thanks
My Setup:
QAV500
FM-4006-13 740kv Motors
10x4.5 GF props
30A iPeaka SimonK ESCs
Naza-M v1 w/ GPS
Futaba R3110dps Pcm Rx
Futaba T9CAP Super
P.S. I did post this on RCG as well. I'm not trying to clutter the forums, but their seems to be a much more helpful bunch here.
Well after taking about a week to pull my head out of my 4th point of contact, I was able to get my naza configures correctly and I was in the air for my maiden. It was super stable but had a few times where I got very small oscillation and just chalked it up to gain. Well on a rapid decent my quad does a fill CCW rotation and lands on its top. After looking at everything I'm pretty sure it was a prop coming loose -lesson learned: use threadlock. Video Below
So I take it up after that and thier is a little of a droning noise I can hear and the performance is less then a smooth. Small pitching motions that I really dont feel great with but I am actually able to get some decent forward flight at the field when I tone the gains down a little bit.
Well this morning I am at my house trying to get some nice aerial shots from above the trees in my back yard and when I decide to take it down all of a sudden I get the horrible rocking and when I try to correct it the whole thing pitched CW and makes a horrible scream (on video...I couldn't hear it from where I was flying) and rockets into the trees. Although the video of me trying to get it is hilarious to my better half, the cause of the failure is troubling to me. Video Below
So I think it is maybe an esc calibration thing, I go one by one on the ESCs and calibrate them. Back in the air I go...but MUCH lower. I try to test things out and after getting into the yaw a little but - BAM - CW roll and she is down. Video Below
So just to check everything out I take her up again over a sandy bit in my year and at about a foot off the ground I see the quad to a hand stand on the right rear motor - scream some ungodly noise - and then after I cut the throttle It puts itself back on the ground. Video Below
I have two concerns
1. What the heck is causing this? Did I bang up a motor on my initial crash and are the bearings just deciding when the want to go?
2. I hear a knocking sound when the motors are at low speeds almost like cogging, should I be concerned?
Any help you guys can offer would be outstanding, my FPV gear will be here next week and would like to be able to fly without KNOWING that it is just a matter of time before my quad decides to take a dirt nap. Thanks
My Setup:
QAV500
FM-4006-13 740kv Motors
10x4.5 GF props
30A iPeaka SimonK ESCs
Naza-M v1 w/ GPS
Futaba R3110dps Pcm Rx
Futaba T9CAP Super
P.S. I did post this on RCG as well. I'm not trying to clutter the forums, but their seems to be a much more helpful bunch here.
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