Hoverfly HFPro acting very odd

[i love nachos]

So last week I installed a new gimbal on my hex. 3 minutes into a nice and easy test flight motor 4 shut down. I tested everything and determined a faulty esc. I replaced the esc last night and went out for a test fly today. AL mode was a little wobbly. So I landed and switched to manual. It was insane. Fought it to almost level then flipped AL back on. Once I did that it was violently swinging back and forth. Hit the ground fairly hard but in the landing gear. So I patched up the gear and went to plug it into the setup software to check settings. Now getting a message saying my firmware isn't compatible. I just set the gimbal up last week and I haven't changed a thing. Since HF server is down I can't update. So I decided to go through my radio and see if I noticed any changes. I see I had ALT hold on which I have not figure out yet so I thought maybe that was the issue. So I went back out and not 5 of my motors are shaking like the timing on their escs are off. The props spin as soon as I arm it. So I started to add throttle trim down and they started to spool up and would have taken off but I quickly disarmed it. I am at a loss. I had this thing working great just a short time ago. Anyone have ideas?

 

[JZSlenker]

So everything was fine until you swapped out esc's? Check the rotation on the new esc. Is the new esc plugged into the correct port. Double check rotation. Do you only have one positive wire from your esc's connected to the board? Triple check rotation.

 

[i love nachos]

Rotation is good. It flies. I have all the red wires clipped except one. I only replaced one of the ESCs. The rest were fine. This one had a timing issue. It was flying like there was a bowling ball hanging from a string under it.

 

[Photo Elevate]

Just a thought.

Have you recalibrated throttle end points and made sure all the esc's have the same programming settings.

If you are not sure how to do it have a look at the manual or knowlege base on website.

Good luck.

 

[i love nachos]

So new info. I discovered in one of the crashes my AV130 gimbal got bent to hell and it was binding. I unplug it and the motors are functioning fine. So does anyone know if the draw from the locked up gimbal servos could have been what was messing up the flight?

 

[JZSlenker]

Was your gimbal powered from your one esc with the positive wire still connected? If so then yes, that could be your issue. Most BEC's that are built into an ESC have a protection circuit that shuts it down if there is an overload. This reset can happen if you have more than one red wire connected together and most likely if you have a servo that can't move. Most people do not power their gimbal off of the same ESC (or BEC) that powers their RX.

 

[Bartman]

my board is acting waaaaaayyyyy weird also. if i flash the firmware and do the calibrations it flies perfect. next time i hook it up to the setup client it doesn't remember anything and the attitude indicator is either way nose up or 90 degrees sideways. i may have put 6.1 volts to the receiver pins and the manual says anything more than 6 will damage it so I guess that 6 volts is a pretty hard number to not exceed???

looking for a good used board now.

 

[i love nachos]

Ah well that's a bummer.

 

[i love nachos]

I'm going to head over to SleepyC's tomorrow to see if we can figure out what's up. Just need the firmware update servers to get back up.

 

[i love nachos]

Well the new esc I installed I had plugged into the wrong port. Amateur mistake. Amazing it got off the ground and flew at all plugged in like that.