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Revision as of 19:13, 14 October 2012

will move this stuff to the trouble shooting page and then use it for general MWC faq'

Vibrations

The sensors are very sensitive to the vibration and they can’t give the right data reading to the MCU if there are noises and vibrations. Here you can see an example video of the sensors telemetry of a flying quadcopter with low noise in the readings.

balancing all brushless motors

The motor case are always not perfectly balanced, so you might get one side who has more weight than the other side. When it runs at high speed it makes some vibration.

To balance a brushless motor with some tape you need to do only 2 things.

• you have to know where you put the tape to add some weight
• you have to know how much tape/weight you have to add.

You don’t need any special tool to make this done.

• Turn on your motor to balance and look the data read in the GUI
• remember how bad the curves you get.
• put anywhere a piece of tape on the motor case and turn on your motor again.
  • You’ll see the curves are better if you are on the right side
  • worse if you are on the wrong side.
• If you are on the wrong side go to have a try on the other side.
• If you have better data read you should move the tape a little bit to right or to left and see if the data reading becomes better than better.
• if better than better just continue to move the tape further until the data reading becomes worse and than move back a little bit.

propeller balancing

To limit maximum vibration after balancing the motors you’d better to balance the propellers. Plastique propeller is made from molds. The quality depends firstly on the machining of the molds and secondly the molding skills.