All right, everybody calm down now. Points are made.
Sean, you learned an important lesson, and thankfully nobody was hurt.
Everybody's point was, you don't do this in a few days. This thing we do takes time, serious time.
So, let's move on.
Advise you want, here it is.
1. Rebuild your rig, don't buy another frame, or even another smaller rig to learn with. Why? Several reasons.
a. This will teach you what you need to know about building and maintaining one of these things. There is a ton to know, and like it or not there is no getting beyond this, you have to know every last little thing, every detail of every single component to get to the stage of where you want to be.
b. believe it or not, your 900 will teach you everything and be more stable. You already own it, so exploit it.
Look at this as your opportunity to learn all of this very important information that you have to know, even if it means you are not flying fo awhile, instead of just throwing more money into a second rig to just fly.
I'm sorry you wrecked your rig! The truth is it wasn't unexpected. It's all part of the learning process. You HAVE to pay your dues in this hobby.
Understand that nothing here that we do is perfected yet, all of this is just a few years old. Right now the industry of these things is in it's toddler years.
Things go wrong, all the time. Like it or not, we the end users are the beta testers.
Another piece of advise, once you do have the 900 up and ready to fly, leave the park out of the equation. Go to a nice large open area, out in the country to fly. Do this until you have full confidence in your rig, and then do it even more.
These guys are right, these things are seriously dangerous! It's just a matter of time before one actually kills someone. Hell, mine damn near killed me!
So, let's just slow things down a little and quit trying to run before you can walk, so to speak.
You have the desire, obviously, now it's time to focus that in a positive direction.
Examining your previous posts, you obviously went into lvc failsafe. I tried to tell you that the way to prevent this from happening is to turn off lvc, just use your timer on your tx.
You went into lvc because one of your batterys is not right. I suspect you flew with that bad battery.
Without lvc on, what would have happened is that you just would have lost the power to fly, she would have just enough power to get you back down onto the ground in a controlled manner, abet quickly.
LVC is a great feature, but you really need to know that battery conditions change and how to recgonize this when it happens. You then have to constantly modify the settings to accomodate this.
As I said, personally, I don't use it, just too much of a hassle. Those that are in this professionally have to as part of the protocol. If you want to get to the professional level, you will too, but first there are other things you need to learn first. So, it's a matter of dividing it all up into segments, and learn each segment individually, before attempting the next segment.
First segment, rebuild your rig.
2, understanding every component and how it all has to work in harmony.
3, we mentioned, flying it properly and safely.
4, rebuild your gimbal
5, interaction between the gimbal and flying.
This is just the beginning, don't bite off more than you can chew at one given time. No shortcuts here. It all takes time, serious time. Only dedication to each step will get you where you want to be.
One thing we seem to gloss over and not mention enough is safety. This comes in several factors, working on your rig safely, safe practices, safe flying, pre-flight safety, post-fligh safety.
I guatantee you, once you think you are safe, you are not, double check, think again.
So, for the first step, I recommend you ascess the damage, work up a list of what you need and order it.
While you are waiting, go over the WKM manual again, and again, until you know it thoroughly, and along with any other component documentation you have. If you did not get any for the motors and esc's, then look it up online and read up on it. Understand what an esc is, how it does what it does and how to set one up properly. How a motor works, how to change the ratation of a motor.
Do not strip your rig down until you get the parts. Once you do start stripping them down, take pictures so you know how it reassembles and take notes to help you.
Asking for help along the way is acceptable, yes, but helping yourself is paramount. Read first, then ask.
