Hello all,
I had recently purchased a Cinestar 8 from a third party. The hardware is as as follows:
- Okto XL Distro board
- FC V2.1 ME w/ ACC Upgrade
- Navi-Control V2.0
I received the above running firmware 2.0A. After assembling the CS8, I calibrated the ACC and Compass. I verified in MKTools that eveything was good and no error codes were present. I then proceeded to perform some test flights. My actions were as follows:
After verifying I had a good satillite connection and calibrating the gyro, I would take off in complete manual / FREE mode to verify trim and that all motors and MKTool settings were correct. After getting to a safe height / hover, I will turn Altitude hold ON. Once that is established and I see its working correctly (which it does), I will attempt to go from FREE mode to PH mode. Then the heli acted like it starts to loose power and quick decends rapidly. I immediately switched back to FREE mode, and once again, everything returned to normal.
I landed the copter and remained at idle. I then switched to PH mode while on the ground... Even though this is not recommeded or optimal, I attempted to take off in PH mode. I got zero response. The motors would not spool up any higher than idle. A friend who is very experienced with MK advised me to reflash the setup with 0.90j firmware as he claims its much less buggy than 2.0.
So I did that, and once again completed all the calibrations. Still nothnig has changed.
Currently, my 3 postition switch is set up as: FREE mode (forward), PH (middle), and CH (back). Just on a hunch I decided to reverse the switch in the transmitter settings so now CH is foward. After doing this, I attempted to start / fly the CS8. Now, it will only take of in CH mode!!! I thought this wasn't even possible to do?!? So it seems as if only the foward switch is being recognized? I'm at a deadend here. Can anyone shed some light on this?
Thanks,
Chris
I had recently purchased a Cinestar 8 from a third party. The hardware is as as follows:
- Okto XL Distro board
- FC V2.1 ME w/ ACC Upgrade
- Navi-Control V2.0
I received the above running firmware 2.0A. After assembling the CS8, I calibrated the ACC and Compass. I verified in MKTools that eveything was good and no error codes were present. I then proceeded to perform some test flights. My actions were as follows:
After verifying I had a good satillite connection and calibrating the gyro, I would take off in complete manual / FREE mode to verify trim and that all motors and MKTool settings were correct. After getting to a safe height / hover, I will turn Altitude hold ON. Once that is established and I see its working correctly (which it does), I will attempt to go from FREE mode to PH mode. Then the heli acted like it starts to loose power and quick decends rapidly. I immediately switched back to FREE mode, and once again, everything returned to normal.
I landed the copter and remained at idle. I then switched to PH mode while on the ground... Even though this is not recommeded or optimal, I attempted to take off in PH mode. I got zero response. The motors would not spool up any higher than idle. A friend who is very experienced with MK advised me to reflash the setup with 0.90j firmware as he claims its much less buggy than 2.0.
So I did that, and once again completed all the calibrations. Still nothnig has changed.
Currently, my 3 postition switch is set up as: FREE mode (forward), PH (middle), and CH (back). Just on a hunch I decided to reverse the switch in the transmitter settings so now CH is foward. After doing this, I attempted to start / fly the CS8. Now, it will only take of in CH mode!!! I thought this wasn't even possible to do?!? So it seems as if only the foward switch is being recognized? I'm at a deadend here. Can anyone shed some light on this?
Thanks,
Chris