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Phoenix, AZ
About Me:
I'm an experienced fixed-wing RC pilot and private pilot in 3-axis and weight-shift. My main thing is building simple but effective purpose-designed RC aircraft from inexpensive foamboard.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
I have good experience with LOS RC flying and videography from my weight-shift plane and would like to blend those experiences by getting into UAV's. I am adept at building functional airframes but very inexperienced with UAV hardware. I'm starting with basic actively-operated FPV (no microcontroller) but would like to progress. I'm interested in collaborating with guys having complementary skillsets, ie: great at computers and controllers, not as experienced with aerodynamics, airframe design, piloting. For example I would be receptive to design scratchbuilt planes to meet UAV specs provided by the operator. "Needs to carry 400g for 20 minutes at 20mph and fit into a 40" car trunk", or something like that.
Hometown:
Phoenix, AZ
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It's perhaps redundant to sell a Y6 to the "Y6 owners group" here but you are my tribe, so here it is. All the specs and details are in the YouTube video description. This craft is fully tricked out to shoot FPV video with the included GoPro and…
"You do need to set your throttle failsafe value in order to make that functionality work, and presumably to bypass the arming prechecks. If you want to do a webmeeting sometime let me know at experimentalairlines@gmail.com and I will see if I can…"
"There are plenty of instructions out there, just google it. It's not hard, but there are better descriptions that I could give you here. But if you already figured it out then maybe the problem is solved without logs."
"I have (unfortunately) a fair amount of experience with motor-out crashes with the Y6. Could you upload your logfile? I would be happy to have a look."
"I know it's not exactly the answer you're asking for, but having the same problem myself plus bogus home-arrow readings, I just disabled the magnetometer altogether. Once the plane is moving the GPS will give all the directional info needed - to…"
"Chris,
Saying it happens "pretty regularly" is a little alarming in itself. But it's the part about sometimes not noticing the failure that really gets my attention. When and how do you notice the problem then? That specific event would seem to…"
Saying it happens "pretty regularly" is a little alarming in itself. But it's the part about sometimes not noticing the failure that really gets my attention. When and how do you notice the problem then? That specific event would seem to…"
"This exact thing happened to my Y6, only it took three crashes to diagnose the problem. It appears that the Y6 will fly with a motor out under SOME circumstances but not ALL, and it does not indicate that a motor is out unless you happen to hear or…"
"You want to do it by multicopter?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2Mjd5XB0fY
Or fixed wing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXqH3daEgAo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WpsMZuDqoA"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2Mjd5XB0fY
Or fixed wing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXqH3daEgAo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WpsMZuDqoA"
"That's a tough one my friend. I would have looked for fine sine waves in the motor outputs, 180 degrees out of phase for each arm motor pair, but it sounds like that's not observed in the logs.
By "airframe" in only mean all the physical parts…"
By "airframe" in only mean all the physical parts…"
"Aside from the prop balancing and prop direction thing, I would consider enabling the motor logging function to see if the yaw wiggling is a commanded motion (the motor speeds would also rapidly fluctuate) or whether it's an airframe oscillation…"
"I use the RCTimer cheapie gimbal with great success. I did mount the controller board separately, more rearward under the frame. The round baseplate fits right up into the recess in the nose of the Y6 with very slight trimming of about 5mm of…"
"I have had limited experience with the ground station plus RC control, but in this instance the "fly to here" command from GS worked in guided and loiter on the RC controller, so it's as if the GS overrides RC, at least in this circumstance.
I…"
I…"
"I have recently had four instances of what is presumably a motor out on my Y6 that resulted in a crash each time. This is from analysis of the logfiles, showing the same power and pitch/roll/yaw behavior each time. The copter attempts to recover…"
"I have had three instances with my Y6 of what appears to be a brief motor-out situation causing a crash each time. Randy M. has helped me analyze the logfiles. The behavior appears to show a rear motor, probably the lower one, quitting briefly,…"
"I agree with your assessment of an overvoltage situation for the ESC. There is a dataflash sub-log of "MOTORS" but it only records the PPM being sent to each motor over the control lead, but I do not believe it measures the actual RPM or status of…"
Here's an idea for a collapsible canard planform UAV/FPV aircraft I designed. It is scratchbuilt out of Dollar Tree foamboard, packing tape, and hot glue. It weighs 1500g AUW with a GoPro and basic FPV setup for a 10 minute flight. Tested with…
