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samshirley001

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Been a while that ive been flying around and changing things on my quad and hexa........the hexa is in bits waiting for its apm flight controler to arrive and ive just finished the build on the naza light fpv spyder quad :)

 

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Only been into quads for a few weeks but love it !

 

Some very nice machines on here :thumbsup:

 

Planning on building one soon  but anyway here's  mine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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UpGraded the FPV frame ....... 

 

Alien X 450-550 FPV glass fiber cheapy Frame 

still the same Sunnysky 2012-13 980KV prop throwers

8" slowfly cheapy props 

Orangerx R615 RX soon to be changed to Spectrum branded gizmo's

Hitachi like a gopro but not Gopro like camera ( 1080p@30fps )

hobbywing quattro 4-1 esc ( hidden under the quadcopter and held in place with velcro strapping)

onboard system is the Naza M lite with GPS 

 

battery power source are two cell choices 3s @2200mah  or 3s-4s 3000-4000mah

just need to source FPV camera and video TX/rx with goggles and/or LCD displays

 

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UpGraded the FPV frame ....... 

 

Alien X 450-550 FPV glass fiber cheapy Frame 

still the same Sunnysky 2012-13 980KV prop throwers

8" slowfly cheapy props 

Orangerx R615 RX soon to be changed to Spectrum branded gizmo's

Hitachi like a gopro but not Gopro like camera ( 1080p@30fps )

hobbywing quattro 4-1 esc ( hidden under the quadcopter and held in place with velcro strapping)

onboard system is the Naza M lite with GPS 

 

battery power source are two cell choices 3s @2200mah  or 3s-4s 3000-4000mah

just need to source FPV camera and video TX/rx with goggles and/or LCD displays

 

ygUNrcx.jpg

 

q57Skzq.jpg

 

1QeAt1r.jpg

nice quad mate

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Bit of a change going on and im opting for other flight controlers i pulled the multiwii pro out of the hexa and put that in a quad and i have the naza flying great for fpv ...........................

Next up is an APM 2.5.2 with an ublox 6m gps in a hexa frame

Sunny sky 2212-13 980kv motors 

5000mah 3s lipo's

 

Its all set and ready for autotune (ardupilot 3.01 has autotune :) it simply sets up the pids for you with an in flight correcting sequence of around 5mins and your done )

 

all i need is for the wind to calm down a little to run the sequence.

 

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May as well throw in my three bog standard issues in,aint got the brains to build my own :xd:

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Bit of a change going on and im opting for other flight controlers i pulled the multiwii pro out of the hexa and put that in a quad and i have the naza flying great for fpv ...........................

Next up is an APM 2.5.2 with an ublox 6m gps in a hexa frame

Sunny sky 2212-13 980kv motors 

5000mah 3s lipo's

 

Its all set and ready for autotune (ardupilot 3.01 has autotune :) it simply sets up the pids for you with an in flight correcting sequence of around 5mins and your done )

 

all i need is for the wind to calm down a little to run the sequence.

make sure to cover the control board, light affects the barometer a lot, resulting in poor loiter performance, some electrical tape over it all apart from the lights will do

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make sure to cover the control board, light affects the barometer a lot, resulting in poor loiter performance, some electrical tape over it all apart from the lights will do

 

or more simple is just to pop some open pore foam over the barometer. 

 

total covering can cause problems in alt reading as the pressure change is affected

so we tend to use openpore black foam , it cuts down light and cuts down propwash but allows the baro to breath

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or more simple is just to pop some open pore foam over the barometer. 

 

total covering can cause problems in alt reading as the pressure change is affected

so we tend to use openpore black foam , it cuts down light and cuts down propwash but allows the baro to breath

did the same as i did on the multiwii..non conductive (yes some black foams are conductive) foam over the barometer works a treat .....

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Can I have a link please

 

 

no links its well documented if you google " foam covering a barometer " 

 

DO NOT use any type of GLUE, you can block the barometer. 

DO NOT cover the barometer with tape either, its a very bad idea

 

What we tend to use is microphone foam or foam from headsets, its an open pore foam

so cuts down light penetration but also calms the propwash from the machine.

it gives your altitude hold a better chance of being more precise and less jumpy ( bouncey as in quad tends to bounce up/down because of propwash effects and/or light penentration )

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