I've managed to get my ac together and in nice trim. It is very smooth to hover, but i have two weird issues with flight.
First one is with forward flight; in stabilize, simple and alt hold modes when i start to accelerate forward, the copter suddenly turns 90-180 degrees to either side around z-axis after short flight.
You can see the issue in video i posted (vid is compilation, about 6 min, this problem is seen in about 4:30, and hey, nice Finnish views too!).
Another issue is with loiter. The loiter radius is about 10-20 meters, gradually increasing, the copter seems to fly rectangular pattern which expands after every turn. Eventually the copter shoots really fast out of control.
Any help is appreciated.
fw is 2.0.42
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You do have a magnetometer installed, yes?
Hello,
just my two cents:
1. I had motors just like yours once. Even the prop holders looked like yours.
Problem: This setup makes the motor shaft very long. So if the shaft is even a tiny bit unbalanced this will have a huge impact on vibrations. I had exactly this problem. My copter (about one year ago it was a Mikrokopter) wouldn't fly in a streight line.
Different motors with a differnt prop holding system: problem solved
2. In your video I hear a really loud, strange sound as soon as you try to fly forward. Maybe there is just something wrong with your front-left motor.
...just a guess
I hope you can solve the problem.
Kai
I have seen this before in one of my quads and posted about it. I was playing with PID's trying to get rid of the 'springy' yaw i still see today.. When i had the yaw stabilize P down to low all i had to do was a bit of forward flight in any direction and the yaw would spin 90-180 degrees or more. I reverted P to higher value and it went away, wierd. I cant explain it and have not sen it sense (but never lowered my P since).
I've never had this problem before, but I've heard about it from others. I think it's an uncalibrated compass.
Fly around a bit and then disarm the copter. Disarming will save the compass calibrations.
If you want to verify it's the compass, disable it in the CLI Setup menu. "Compass off"
Jason