Recent content by Steve_in_NJ

As others have said here, the biggest reason for the toilet bowl effect is the NAZAs lack of ability to compensate for "magnetic declination" - that is, depending on where you live on the planet, your GPS puck needs to be rotated a certain number of degrees left or right. It could be a little...

I am still building the unit - I have to jury-rig my gimbal/gopro/bracket onto the front of the thing. Only then can I place the battery and see where the CG is going to land. The QAV500 v2 comes with 35mm standoffs to create the space between the top and bottom decks; to fit the battery I...

I am building a QAV500 v2 frame and am considering putting my whopping battery on the same deck as my NAZA M v2. This would mean that the NAZA will need to sit forward of the CG. I have read varying opinions about placing a FC anywhere other than at the CG; what are the facts about it...

I fly quads, and have joined my local old-school model airplane club. My first quad is set up for AP; not built for the rough-and-tumble of FPV racing. I joined the club because I wanted to have a place to go where I didn't have to wonder if I was going to get booted out by some authority or...

I am paying about $5 each for 12" CF props on ebay these days (buying two pair at a time). Not too tragic I think.

OK, off it comes. I suppose I will collect them until I have a set, then make a rainy day project out of sanding and balancing the lot. Thanks for the input!

After digging up my lawn a couple of times, one of the props on my quad has taken a beating. The 12" prop is now 11 7/8", and the ends look like this... At the risk of asking a silly question, is this the time to retire this prop? Or can I reasonably get more flights out of it?

I have a Turnigy 9x radio and have flashed it with the er9x firmware. I have plugged in the values shown on what seems to be a fairly authoritative youtube video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txBdlRdBni0 Throughout the video whenever a weight is plugged in, the viewer is warned to "try this...

Actually it only has one 3-position switch. The rest are 2-position. However there are 3 pots - I BELIEVE I can make use of a pot to stand in for a 3-position switch. Just this moment I am in the process of "upgrading" the 9X to the er9X firmware, which I understand is more programmable and...

Well it's got knobs galore (that's as technical as I get so far), and a couple of pots, and understand that the er9x firmware allows for assigning everything, so I think I will be covered...

OK so then I will need: 4 - basic quadcopter control 1 - 3 position for NAZA flight modes 1 - NAZA return to home 1 - pot for gimbal aim 1 - 3 position for camera selector I will not need a tuning channel as I have the DJI bluetooth unit which will connect to a phone/ipad app. So this...

Hmmmm....worn out motors.... I too have a Ladybird v2 that drifts in different directions with each new battery. If the problem was a motor, would it drift in the direction of that bad motor?

http://www.multirotorforums.com/showthread.php?5702-Flying-on-an-Airline-with-LiPo-Batteries Be sure to look at lipo carryon allowance for overseas flights. Call the airline - ask them about lithium-ion in carry-on.

Moto, Thanks again for your input. Re the motors - they are low kv, but the 6s provides plenty of "v" to get the props spinning when they need to. By the way if you are wondering why some nutcase is starting out in the hobby with a "big" project like this one, the answer is that I sold one...

I am down to 12x6 CF props, and fingers crossed the wash over the edges of the frame doesn't create too much havoc. I COULD go back to the drawing board on eCalc and try to find a combo of battery/smaller-&-higher-kv-motor/prop that gets me to where I am now in terms of flight time, but I am...