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Ken, which gimbal is this one again? This is a great setup. It looks like it is dialed in pretty well. :) Peter, in all likelihood, you will end up with multiple platforms, like the rest of us, and I too think this F450/Naza combo is a great place to start. Xaircraft has a similar quad frame...

The 30A Maytechs are basically reflashed HobbyWings, so they end up supporting update rates up to 400Hz, which is a good thing. They also have a 16kHz PWM setting so they aren't so noisy. If they are now going to do a 40A version, these would definitely be my first choice, especially if they...

Yep, big difference. :) The telltale buzzing is gone, and so are the vibes. Great setup. :) I have a F450 frame coming tomorrow, and a Naza on Tuesday. I'm going to use it with the 12A ESCs and motors that came with my XA Hexa kit. I may try this on 4s, and use the 11x5 Graupners I took off the...

I've not had a chance until late this afternoon to do a test flight, and ran into a slight snag. I forgot to reverse the motor direction on the three clockwise rotating motors. :shame: When these were on my X8, the motors are flipped 180 degrees so you don't need to reverse the motors. I had a...

There's a lot less vibes and "jello" than I was expecting, based on those initial reports, and I don't see any sort of flexing, really. There's a slight buzzing, and a little bit of vibration, occasionally, but this is with some purposely aggressive flying. I'm guessing a little Moon Gel would...

Looking forward to the video. :) How do you have the camera mounted? Pics? -- Gary

If three are working, but three are not, it might be an end point issue. What sort of throttle range calibration function do these ESCs have? The so-called "cheap" brands have you power up the ESC with the throttle at 100%, and then back to zero. This sets the 0-100% range in the ESC. The reason...

I hate to say it, but I think you might be screwed. There are a number of high-end ESCs, like Kontronics, Castle Creations, Hyperion, etc., that don't play nice with multi rotor flight control systems, such as the WK-M. Sometimes the problem is that they don't arm properly, mainly due to not...

I think I read that thread. The one thing that stuck was the example of why aluminum baseball bats have rubber handles, but wooden ones do not. Makes sense. :) -- Gary

Because of the drifting/wandering of the gimbal servo outputs on the WK-M, which shows up as jitter and/or "jello" in the video, I decided to make use of a Xaircraft FC/AHRS combo, that I wasn't using, just to drive the gimbal servos. DJI is still working on a fix for this issue, so this is my...

I finished the MC6500PRO gimbal, and got it mounted. I also tidied up some of the wiring, and got the two 4s-3300 packs mounted. AUW, with the packs, and the GoPro2 is 5lb 14.9oz/2688gm. I still need to redo the Assistant settings, for the WK-M, and setup the gimbal gains on the XA FC, which I...

Nice. :) Do you have a closeup of the top plate? I'm trying to figure out where to mount all the WK-M bits on my CS6. Thanks -- Gary

I got tired of not being able to deal with the low frequency vibrations on the VC-600-X8 setup, so yesterday I moved everything over to an XA hexa frame. This uses the very stiff ABS arms used on the X450, which is similar to DJI's F450 Flamewheel design, but in a hexa "X" orientation. Where I...

Damn, Christmas did com early! :frog: Who did you order this from? I'm trying to get a Naza as well, but can't seem to find anyone that has them yet. -- Gary

Wow, I'm very jealous! :tennis: It looks right to me. The triangular plate has a square pattern of four m3 nuts, and it looks like the CS gimbal bolts right up to these, is that right? -- Gary

I used two full-size Hitec HS-7966HB 12-bit digital servos, with 32t MXL drive pulleys from Lynxmotion.com. The 64t large pulleys came from Andrey Kim, but I'm not sure what his source is. I also got some 60t versions from McMaster.com, along with the MXL belts. Although these mods made the...