Comment by Ellison Chan on May 17, 2012 at 3:31pm

Looking at RCG now.  The thread is big, but not everyone seems to have "trouble free" flying with Naza.  My radio is the same one I fly Arducopter with.  No expos, plane mode.  Multi-check all prop directions.  Like I mentioned, I can "fly" it in Manual mode.  Everything moves in the correct direction.  It just doesn't keep altitude well.  I would like to know where the vent hole for that barometer is.  Maybe it's time to open her up.

Comment by Allen Bishop on May 17, 2012 at 4:07pm

I have two DJI Wookong WK-M units with multi-waypoints and they all fly great.  I have had some technical questions early on when I purchased my first system.  I called DJI directly and got a tech on the line who spoke english better than the drive up at McDonalds. They are polite, patient and knowledgeable.  Remember the time zone differences.

I also have several DIY units and have become frustrated with the current level of functionality and the loss of functionality from release to release.  The difference between DIY and DJI is the former is an experiment and the latter is a product.

 

Good luck.

Comment by Ellison Chan on May 17, 2012 at 4:18pm

Well, my product is not working, as promised.  I've contacted the suppler, so maybe I'll try out DJI too.  Do you have a phone number?  Maybe I can get someone who speaks good English, or Cantonese. ;-)

The phone number on the web site is not toll free.  I shudder to call China, on my own dime to solve a problem for a $230 controller.  Might make sense for the Wookong, but not the Naza.

My problem may be due to ESC calibration, since I'm not using DJI ESCs.  Will try that next, and see if things improve.

Comment by Allen Bishop on May 17, 2012 at 6:13pm

I have two DJI's Full systems with multi-waypoints.

Here is the support info:

6/F, HKUST SZ IER Building, No.9, Yuexing 1st Rd.,
South District, Hi-Tech Park, Shenzhen, 518057, Guangdong, China
Tel +86-755-26656677 Sales ext 201、202、203
Fax +86-755-83067370
Service hotline +86-755-22673777
Sales sales@dji-innovations.com
Others info@dji-innovations.com

They speak english better than a McDonald's drive thru.

Allen

Comment by Ellison Chan on May 17, 2012 at 9:25pm

Ok, I re-calibrated all my ESC individually, and just managed to get a pretty decent hover out of the Naza.  It's very different from the AC, though.  It really doesn't want to hover until after at least half throttle, then it seems to just revs up the props and does a pretty decent alt hold.  It's just not very sensitive to throttle changes.  Very strange behaviour, but I guess I will have to tune it to my liking.  I'm used to having more control over flying characteristics.

Comment by Ellison Chan on May 18, 2012 at 8:23am

Medical research has proven that there's no such thing as too much sleeping. ;-)

Anyways, if the weather holds up, I'll go out for a fly, and post some video, if I can get some good flights.  If I get enough flight time, I might just start a review blog.  But, I'm telling you now, I don't like this "vario" stuff a bit and I'm not too impressed with the flyability with slightly uncalibrated ESCs.

Comment by Ellison Chan on May 18, 2012 at 9:29am

Jason, are you implying I'm biased?  Did I not just post a video of someone flying the heck out of an AeroQuad controlled quad just nary a couple of days ago?  Now I own a DJI Naza?  I just call it  as I see it, good, bad and the ugly.  Who knows, maybe after a little flying, I'll get used to the Naza behaviour. We shall see. ;-)

Comment by Ellison Chan on May 18, 2012 at 9:40am

Ha, ha.  Forgot to mention I got a couple of 1.5A 25C batteries from RCtimer a couple of weeks ago.  Running them in parallel effectively turned them into 50C batteries and avoided the battery drain warnings.  So, I've been testing for a couple of weeks, and having the issue with the throttle control.  I thought it was still the batteries giving me problems, but when I got my 5A 35C battery from HK yesterday, and still had the problem, I knew it was not batteries that was causing the problem, and had to do with my drone.  That's what eventually lead me to think that I needed to re-calibrate the escs. (long story short)

Comment by Charles John on June 10, 2012 at 5:19pm

here is link to video it is still uploading http://youtu.be/lVLyJwcCMwE the video is shaky but it was shot in 18mph wind gust. Dji has came out with a gps for the naza fc :) mine should be here next week. Keep up the good work Dji

Comment by Charles John on June 10, 2012 at 6:43pm

for anyone interested here the link for the gps http://www.dji-innovations.com/

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