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Permalink Reply by Kevin Brown on September 2, 2012 at 6:56pm

Leave the esc set for Ni but would not effect the arming.....try ruder to left......make sure the right mode is set in the transmitter 

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Permalink Reply by Tono on September 2, 2012 at 7:03pm

Thanks! :) 

I will put it back to Ni.

Also tried the automatic ESC calibration and all 4 motors where moving correctly.

Who knows what I am missing, going to keep looking what I am doing wrong here.

Thanks again.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Boland on September 2, 2012 at 9:38pm

And try re-calibrating your radio

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Brown on September 2, 2012 at 9:54pm

I had the same problem it took me 2 day and Chris's help to figure out.

I have a TG 9x radio mode 2 but when you set up a new model it is defaulted to mode 1 every thing looked ok even calibrating the radio look the same as my other units...could not understand why it would not arm. Checked the setting and changed all worked  I felt real smart......

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Permalink Reply by Tono on September 2, 2012 at 10:07pm

yeah, I think it could be something with the radio.

Mine is Futaba 7C

I just calibrated the radio and this is the information collected (see screenshot)

Do you see anything abnormal?

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Brown on September 2, 2012 at 10:17pm

That looks fine just like mine did

do you have any of the limits set that could be it also

Mode 1 is thro on right

Mode 2 is thro on left

I have also had to reverse the rudder because it arm when I went to the left instead of right

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Permalink Reply by Tono on September 2, 2012 at 10:23pm

Mine is mode 2.

It was arming the motors moving the rudder to the left instead of right :)

Does this mean that if I go fly... the yaw is inverted? Or this is just affecting the arm/desarm process?

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Brown on September 29, 2012 at 8:04am

Yes it will be revers, fix in radio or apm

Also make sure the props are spinning the right direction it is not the same as for the hoverfly......

I just tried the hoverfly again and I still can not fly it at all. I can fly just about any thing else with no problems. I wonder if I have a bad board

I am a big fan of the propeller chip.....I tried twice

My ELEV 8 flies nice with an APM2 and stock pids

Alt Hold, waypoints all work fine 

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Permalink Reply by heliboy on September 29, 2012 at 10:18am

I have also had poor luck with the Hoverfly. It seems to be just a stabilization augmentation system. Sometimes I can fly but very erratic. I use the prop chip a lot an many applications, but I think here it falls short. I have consigned my hoverfly sport to the recycle bin and will fit the ELEV-8 with the APM2 as soon as I see the demo at Maker Faire in NYC tomorrow !

Permalink Reply by Tono on September 29, 2012 at 3:01pm

I think I can't call mine ELEV8 anymore.

It's more like a Frankenstein now :)

In fact, I built 2 frames (45cm from motor to motor) and mounted the Hoverfly on the other one and both fly, but I still need to tweak the APM because when I go full throttle, it wobbles a bit and the yaw is a bit aggressive.

Here's a pic of the APM quad on the test "bench"

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Permalink Reply by heliboy on September 29, 2012 at 7:19am

I am planning to convert an ELEV-8 frame to APM2.5. I found the Hoverfly SPORT board pretty useless. I am very interested in how your conversion goes and if you can achieve auto level and altitude hold. Are you also planning to have it follow GPS setpoints ?

Look forward to foolowing your progress.

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Permalink Reply by Tono on September 29, 2012 at 3:14pm

Vijay,

I am planning to mount everything I can :)

Right now, I haven't configured it to use the GPS (ublox gps) or autolevel.

Once I find the right PID's for everything, will go and set up all the other modes.

After testing both the Hoverfly SPORT and the APM2.5, I feel like if they are different flavors of flying behavior.

The HF Sport is definitely more "manual" so, if you learn to fly the HF Sport, the APM will be a piece of cake (once you find the right PID values).

Let me know if you are having any problems, to see if I can help. :)

Send me an email if you find it easier ( tonocastillo at gmail dot com )

Regards,

-Tono

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