SleepyC
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Ok, so I had this HF Pro (Green) board set up on a cheap frame and it worked very nicely without much effort at all.
Flew smooth as butter, AL worked and to be honest I never even tried AH.
Anyways, I pulled the HFP board out of el cheapo and built a decent Y6 rig I built.
(Pics- First pic shows rig, I have since moved the batts to the main frame and off the gear,
and the second pic shows me setting up the gimbal. All was great!)
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It's a fairly big rig at 900mm motor to motor. 40amp ipeaka Simon K esc's with 750KV (big) Ipower motors,
spinning 12/4 wood Gemfan props on 4S with (2) 3500 packs that are brand new.
The HFP board has the power filter, and all the ESC power leads are pulled but 1 to power the rec through the board.
It's updated to 4.8 and I calibrated it. All checked out.
The rig flys great on Manual and I was starting to get the gain set perfectly. Yesterday Auto Level seemed to be going great as well it would be solid, but change a little Altitude when I hit the button ever so slightly.
So since everything was moving along nicely, I strapped on my AV130 and NEX5 and I was going to start the process of getting the vibes tuned out of the rig. I have one of Rusty's vib damping plates installed, and it takes some fiddling to get the right number of the M3 elastic bushings installed to get it all nice, nice and the rig footage ready.
I set up the gimbal last night in the HF set up client and in the workshop it was doing really well. Moving in the right directions, and was actually pretty stable on the first try.
I could rock and roll the rig and the cam was almost stationary.
Today I go out and its a crap day, gray skies, wind blowing 20+ MPH but I wanted to test this thing. (I have been flying airplanes for 20 years and helis for a few so I'm not really scared of wind) Anyways.. I take off and notice that the gimbal after a few moments seems to lose horizon a tad. Strange, but I figure I can tune AL a little before I try to figure that problem out.
I pop on AL and the rig drops the back rotors at 30 deg and takes off after me and the ground. My instincts take over and I flip back to manual and firewall the motors at the same time getting the thing level... right after this, the gimbal goes 30 deg to the right and around 20 deg up.. and remains there like that is the horizon. I land and am now sitting at home.
I had video rolling and you can see it here.
I know there are some vibrations and all of that in the vid, like I just said I was just working on getting the rig smooth. I mean it's not vibrating badly, but it's not "There" yet at all.
Does anyone have any idea what the heck I'm doing wrong?!?!
Did I miss a set up step? I did the calibration with the board turning to all points, and using the hair dryer and all of that. It all checked out.
The board is set for Y6, and all the motors are turning properly. And it flys very stable in manual...even in this 20+ MPH wind today.
Arrgghh. It took me about 20 minutes to clean the poop stain out of my undies when I got home. ;-)
Flew smooth as butter, AL worked and to be honest I never even tried AH.
Anyways, I pulled the HFP board out of el cheapo and built a decent Y6 rig I built.
(Pics- First pic shows rig, I have since moved the batts to the main frame and off the gear,
and the second pic shows me setting up the gimbal. All was great!)
View attachment 10525View attachment 10526
It's a fairly big rig at 900mm motor to motor. 40amp ipeaka Simon K esc's with 750KV (big) Ipower motors,
spinning 12/4 wood Gemfan props on 4S with (2) 3500 packs that are brand new.
The HFP board has the power filter, and all the ESC power leads are pulled but 1 to power the rec through the board.
It's updated to 4.8 and I calibrated it. All checked out.
The rig flys great on Manual and I was starting to get the gain set perfectly. Yesterday Auto Level seemed to be going great as well it would be solid, but change a little Altitude when I hit the button ever so slightly.
So since everything was moving along nicely, I strapped on my AV130 and NEX5 and I was going to start the process of getting the vibes tuned out of the rig. I have one of Rusty's vib damping plates installed, and it takes some fiddling to get the right number of the M3 elastic bushings installed to get it all nice, nice and the rig footage ready.
I set up the gimbal last night in the HF set up client and in the workshop it was doing really well. Moving in the right directions, and was actually pretty stable on the first try.
I could rock and roll the rig and the cam was almost stationary.
Today I go out and its a crap day, gray skies, wind blowing 20+ MPH but I wanted to test this thing. (I have been flying airplanes for 20 years and helis for a few so I'm not really scared of wind) Anyways.. I take off and notice that the gimbal after a few moments seems to lose horizon a tad. Strange, but I figure I can tune AL a little before I try to figure that problem out.
I pop on AL and the rig drops the back rotors at 30 deg and takes off after me and the ground. My instincts take over and I flip back to manual and firewall the motors at the same time getting the thing level... right after this, the gimbal goes 30 deg to the right and around 20 deg up.. and remains there like that is the horizon. I land and am now sitting at home.
I had video rolling and you can see it here.
I know there are some vibrations and all of that in the vid, like I just said I was just working on getting the rig smooth. I mean it's not vibrating badly, but it's not "There" yet at all.
Does anyone have any idea what the heck I'm doing wrong?!?!
Did I miss a set up step? I did the calibration with the board turning to all points, and using the hair dryer and all of that. It all checked out.
The board is set for Y6, and all the motors are turning properly. And it flys very stable in manual...even in this 20+ MPH wind today.
Arrgghh. It took me about 20 minutes to clean the poop stain out of my undies when I got home. ;-)
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