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I'd post shots from my travels such as this one from Yosemite National Park Shared on my timeline https://www.facebook.com/ChadCourtneyTAZ427

Oopps, Just changed it to public access.

Here's a video w/ props of. Autolevel turned off, showing uneven spin up of motors and in particular one not spinning up w/o a fair amount of throttle applied. I re-verified all settings, and re-calibrated the Q-Brain ESC multiple times via the KK2.1 board. After reprogramming the ESC's the...

Yes, that was what I was saying before. The testing menu on the KK2.1 lists out A E T and R and the input levels they are getting from the Rx. I had my Tx in mode 1 so had the right and left sticks swapped, changed over to mode 2 to correct, then A E T and R matched up, but had two of the...

Gotcha, yes, I checked this as well preflight. Dipping each motor and making sure the one I dipped and only it spun up as it would to try to bring up that motor. I had the throttle low so only the low one should fight to come up for leveling.

Yeah, I checked the motors before and again afterwards, all are spinning the correct way. I had one that I had to swap wires on initial setup, but had did it before the first flight. Also, the kk2.1 lets you test the A E T R settings via the LCD display. I had checked these and reversed...

That was fast. It seemed like one motor didn't want to go and so it would flip whenever it came off the ground. It would rotate left and right with rudder input. Is this more likely a motor or ESC problem. If it's an ESC then I've got an issue as I've got a Q-brain quad. Here's my build...

Most home wiring is solid wire and not braided, you'll want braided wire, and flexible jacket. Both Lowes and Home Depot sell this in braided wire, again it's very in expensive, you'll probably burn more in gas than on the wire;-)

Wow, my frame came in from China really quick. Surprised it was only 8 days instead of 3-4 weeks. Spent a couple hours last night working on it. Frame assembled, KK2.1 board mounted (even 3D printed a case for it), ESC's mounted, wiring from ESC's ran, Motors mounted. Was connecting the...

You really want some 10awg from the battery lead to the power distribution board. 12awg is rated 88A, and 10awg is rated 140A, your talking 30A ESCs so that's 120A potential draw. I bought some from Home Depot for $0.37 per foot, so it's cheap and readily available.

A few comments to maybe help as you seem to be all over the map in what you think you need. LiPo Terminology: - #S is the number of cells, each cell has a nominal 3.7V at the low end of operating. 3S -> 11.1V, 4S -> 14.8V ... - #mAH is the number of milli-amps it can sustain for an hour (divide...

Yeah, that's why I specifically mentioned that I don't have any experience w/ Carbon Fiber props yet. I haven't looked into how thick the resin is and I'd not want to start cutting into the CF, that said, I'd most likely take an additive approach with them. I'd want to make sure I had...

I'm sure that's definitely the safest route, but I'm a long way off before I go this route anyway. I hope to be up in the air this weekend, but won't be ordering components for FPV until I'm at least comfortable in advance control of my quad, and then I'll start w/ a fixed camera. I'll...

Thanks for the clarification. More research on this, and the brushless 'servo' motors do not take direct servo inputs, I think the term 'Servo' put in there is a bit of a misnomer, they are used as servos via the controller which controls the position of the brushless motors. Hence requiring...

I did a little looking and seem to see some conflicting comments regarding this, some folks are saying that the NAZA-M V2 would only support Servo driven gimbals directly. I thought brush-less gimbals used a brush-less motors that have servo control feeds, if that's the case, then I would think...

No experience on the carbon fiber props yet, but the plastic props, I sand off the bottom side of the prop, no great reason other than you don't see it. As for changing the structural integrity of the prop, if you'r sanding that much, then the prop is crap and should be replaced. You can judge...

Yes, if you buy a 3rd party gimbal that has a gimbal controller board, you toss the controller board and plug the servo's into the flight control boards camera tilt and roll ports. Calibrate and go.

I had a similar list when I started out, I had to add to the list since then, as there's a lot of things that you'll eventually have laying around if your building a number of these guys but on a first build you may not have. If you don't have them, then you'll probably want to grab a pack of 3...

Howdy, I'm TAZ427 (aka Chad) from Texas. Currently in waiting on a Q450 frame from HK to get here from China. Started out a month ago with a parts list to build my first Quad. It didn't include a Frame as I planned on 3D printing a frame. I ran into major issues with printing the ARMs of...