MultiWii

kilby

You should check the local laws for permitted power levels 25mW is a pretty common 5.8GHz limit in Europe. Power levels are less important than a good quality antenna pair. Each time you double tx the output this may give you a 20% to 25% improvement but that will leave you with multi path (ghosting...

kilby

Spektrum transmitters usually require somewhere around 125% before you can use stick arming.

Increase the value.

You are also in your own prop wash at that height, you need to be somewhere close to a metre before the prop wash is at a tolerable level

kilby

Spektrum (or orange) satellites run off 3.3v and I flew my 1st naze of a broken out 3.3v pin Wetherby you can run the bluetooth and a satellite RX at the same time I'm afraid I can't answer. Everything you actually need to know can be accessed from here https://github.com/multiwii/baseflight/wiki/Se...

kilby

From memory if you don't have the solder pads bridged you will need to have the overlay board side powered by a 12 feed.

If the pad is bridged then the ftdi should upload absolutely fine.

https://code.google.com/p/rush-osd-development/wiki/MinimOSD_Basic_Setup

kilby

If you haven't already, remove every connection from the board then connect it to your pc see if the board comes up

kilby

Depends on what you mean by better there's more bells and whistles in there but for actual flying the damn thing I will stick to baseflight.

If you want flashing Leeds and gps that still doesn't work then go for cleanflight

kilby

Sounds like you need to adjust the endpoints for the controls on your transmitter

kilby

On the average spektrum transmitter you have to go up to 125% did you take it that high?

kilby

Ok just wanted to be sure

kilby

Shuznatix, so what you are saying is that you have bought an escape with a built in BEC

kilby

So the vital information that he wad changed settings was left out of the posting

Fucking sigh

kilby

Your sticks should give a min value of 1000 and a max of 2000

Most transmitters require a setting of around 125% to achieve this.

kilby

Osprey. .. are you testing your motors from the configurator software or from the transmitter.

If it's from the transmitter then try it from the configurator.

Are you using SimonK flashed esc's or something else (biheli or something else)

kilby

@wobbletop the configurator (chrome one I assume) is from a different group of folks, I'm not sure that they spend any time around here so I would suggest contacting them directly.

I agree with you regarding the display btw

kilby

I would tend to agree with nechaus as APM boards are cheap these days, you could spend ages and only get mediocre results.

My 450 with apm is perfectly happy to sit in one spot when on loiter mode and only moves a few inches (and that's usually because of windy conditions)

kilby

It's usually easier to work through the other forums first, the one I posted covers almost everything you could want but work through the first few pages first as they contain the most basic info. Later ones tend to cover things that turn up with firmware updates (and the usual setup questions) Hope...

kilby

Oops double post (again)

kilby

I may not be popular for posting this BUT, for those having basic issues I suggest heading off to this thread http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1653753 it's stupidly long but it covers almost every common Naze32 issue out there. There are many sires and forums out there that are better...

kilby

I know it can be done with an APM and therefore a Crius with Megapirate should be able to get pretty close

kilby

JamieFL, Probably a regulator (can't be arsed to look at my own naze, but it's got 3 lens and looks like it's in a likely position for a regulator) you have blown the crap out of. Even if you had the ability remove and solder the replacement one in place, there's every chance something else is fucke...

kilby

Oh Rats, Double post

kilby

OK, I found the problem. I was screwed up in two different ways - I needed direction to get over the "multiwii vs normal" motor assignments, and just as bad, I discovered that I had not changed my radio from the default R-E-T-A setup on channels 1-4 to the correct A-E-T-R. UGH. That creat...

kilby

Viewing from the rear of the quad. Esc output 1 to closest right land side motor Esc output 2 to furthest right hand motor Esc output 3 to nearest left hand motor Esc output 4 to furthest away left hand motor. It is simplicity itself provided you have your esc's labeled properly and your esc's are c...

kilby

It sounds to me like you have your escs plugged into the wrong pins. If you dont think this is the mixup an easy fix would be to plug the front left motor which should be 4 to the pin that outputs when you test motor 4, and the same with the rest. And when you are done you have discovered the right...

kilby

I would suggest that if you don't know how to upload code to an arduino then you really don't have a basic understanding of microcontrollers Btw I have no intention of being rude, but a bit of honesty is sometimes required, especially to avoid unessicary difficultys It's not hard to do but you are g...

kilby

I have heard it said that on a fixed wing you can get getaway without a compass as a fixed wing aircraft is always (well near enough) moving forward so a heading can always be calculated from gps data. Multi rotors are different as forward movement is not necessarily taking place therefore a magneto...

kilby

I did have a phase of my Naze dumping some settings a couple of months ago (just after a firmware update)

The erase full chip before a reflash made the difference, so I keep an eye on that sort of problem after any update these days.

kilby

Sigh I looked at the multiwii code it's a mess, that's what happens especially in the way multiwii developed. However don't push object orientated as that creates it's own mess and makes debugging even worse. People complain about timecop and his views on coding style, however baseflight is readable...

kilby

Considering somebody somebody was bothered enough to register as noRCExperience to post this I think somebody was bothered enough to make it personal already (which was really a little pathetic)

kilby

Hmm my 450 is perfectly happy with the mag built into the apm board.

Of course it did mean actually thinking about the placement of everything.

It can be done but most people can't be bothered

kilby

There is no best transmitter simply what you can afford and feel comfortable using. If you are looking at the x9 family I would suggest spending the extra money (not much more) and getting the Tranaris. The x9 looks cheap until you have to buy the transmitter module as well I fly a Spektrum dx7s I'm...

kilby

In the very early days head free can be useful if the beginner loses orientation you can hit head free mode and pulling back on the right stick beings it back home (seen it used on APM equipped quads like this) Other than that I would say avoid it as will make it al lot harder to learn to fly the ma...

kilby

Have you got the COG correct, if you are tail heavy (battery sitting towards the rear) accelerating or coming out of a turn will result in the tail continuing to turn and quads don't have much yaw authority so the flight controller will have problems regaining control

kilby

An optical flow sensor essentially takes a picture of an area, then takes another picture and compares how the features have moved. So called non reflective are better than highly reflective images as it's only highlights which are looked at, that's why flash and mirrors don't work, unless you have...

kilby

An optical flow sensor essentially takes a picture of an area, then takes another picture and compares how the features have moved. So called non reflective are better than highly reflective images as it's only highlights which are looked at, that's why flash and mirrors don't work, unless you have ...

kilby

timecop wrote:MDY is the one and only date format.

Oh great now there's a fake timecop on the board

kilby

He couldn't work out what the current version was

kilby

But there is something that shows you what the latest version is.

Go onto the chrome baseflight configuration tool, firmware flasher

Choose Load Firmware [Online], that will show you the latest official and the date it was released

Unfortunately it is in the retarded American date format

kilby

Nobody say it had shorted (though I gave it as one possibility) You are disconnecting a load from the FC and then reconnecting that is never a good thing, adding into that any 'bounce' then you have even more potential for problems with the flight controller getting upset. Easiest thing to do is to ...

kilby

As Patrick says As your rx is powered by the throttle connector (usually) almost anything could be happening (including shorting the power taken from the flight controller, which would be a very bad thing for the multiwii) Problems like that could easily toast rather than crash/reboot the flight con...

kilby

@eatkabab other flight controllers have the compass on the main board without issues. The problem doesn't come from the other componants on he board but from where the board is mounted in the first place, often close to the power distribution, esc's or motors. The compass (on the case of APM) was mo...

kilby

The APM and Naza flight controllers prefer to be pretty well isolated from the frame otherwise the flight controllers do weirdass things. Most multiwii folks that I know (and in my case the Naze) tend to have their flight controllers hard mounted but it does mean being sure of balanced props and mot...

kilby

Just glad this wasn't posted on the naze section. Multiwii uses standard drivers tgat are used I so may products it's unbelieveable. If your PC is booked it certainly wasn't the multiwii flight controller that broke it. Look in the hardware section of the windiws control panel and look if a new COM ...

kilby

Shhhh done mention spektrum being crap it's a secret

kilby

In theory it should be possible to connect both satellites to separate serial ports and decide which one to use based on the error messages. But with a lack of serial ports it would be a real pita

kilby

The normal way to do that would be to use a full spektrum rx + satellite (or even two satellites) and let the standard spektrum rx sort out which receiver is providing the most coherent radio link

kilby

@eatkabab wish I could be of assistance it's hard to tell how much somebody knows from a posting therefore you have to query any statements they make. I hope you have success but if you are learning to fly using head free then I will say that in the long term it will make things harder for you after...

kilby

@eatkabab can I ask why you think covering the flight controller with foam would improve the head free mode? That's only for the barometer (has to be open pore foam) I would suggest that you look at your magnetometer as a starting point as that is fairly important for orientation in head free (as is...

kilby

HK Naze32? "The HobbyKing version is fully authorized and royalties are paid to the developer on each Naze32 sold." True or False? Thurmond You sound a little confrontational (especially for a first post) What is this RCGroups? I just don't want to support cloners that do BAD soldering li...

kilby

Tritium wrote:HK Naze32? "The HobbyKing version is fully authorized and royalties are paid to the developer on each Naze32 sold."

True or False?

Thurmond

You sound a little confrontational (especially for a first post)

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