northrnflyer
Thanks for asking, its been a little slow mainly I have been pretty busy on some other project and the temps are pretty low these days, but with that said, I have to say things are going very well.
The copter flies nice, I had it up the other day in something like 22kts winds and it did what it was suppose to do, its crap angle was pretty steep, but the wind for the most part was consistent. It fluctuated at times like between 15 to 22kts (that's my guess as a sailor - if I was on the water it would have been small craft warnings for sure.). In that situation control was not an issue.
Over all I am fairly happy for now, I have found some interesting things and believe see some decent progress with it.
For the longest time I was getting vibration in my video and could not figure for the life of me why, until recently. I found the gears I guess I can call them connection poles where to long and they extended into the prop wash, although while during flight I could not feel vibration at all, I was getting it in my vid, once i adjusted the configuration to pull them out of the prop wash I have seen some positive result.
At the end of the day I want consistency I want to take my copter, put a camera on it, plug it in and go. I do not want things to change because something was out of tune,
Here is a few short vids I did over the last week, the vid quality is not metered well since it was a dark day and the camera metered more of the sky then the tree area, that is because it was on auto everything, with that said I was fairly happy with the beginning of the vid where you see it hovering. The results were in the direction I am going for.
camera settings
Stabalization = completely off
Shutter, White Balance, = auto
No software deshaking involved
Next vid was a few days before, same camera stab off and auto everything else, here you will see some vib, No software deshaking involved but I working on a few things things trying to combat it, and this is also vid when the cf tubing being in the path of prop wash.
cheers all