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  1. Anthony Horton @[email protected] ·

    Hmmm, odd. I fiddled around some more in the ESC Configurator and got it working again, but the only thing I actually changed was the Minimum Startup Power. That was way down at 1025 for some reason, so I increased that to 1120, which was the setting that gave me a good spin on all 4 motors when using ESC Configurator's manual motor control.

    No time for any proper flights after all that messing around, but I did take it into the back yard for a few test hops. This confirmed several things:

    1. The quad can now fly again. Excellent!
    2. My FPV flying skills are very, very rusty.
    3. This thing is a pocket rocket and is very hard to fly in confined spaces, and not just because of 2.

    #FPV #FPVquad #FPVdrone #quadcopter

    #fpv #fpvquad #fpvdrone #quadcopter
  2. Anthony Horton @[email protected] ·

    Arse. I decided to take advantage of a day off and fly one of my FPV quads for the first time in ages. I picked the Flywoo Firefly 2S Nano Baby 20, charged some 2S batteries, my transmitter and my goggles batteries, plugged the quad into Betaflight Configurator to check it was alive, then walked down the road to fly. I got set up, armed the drone and... nothing. The motors wouldn't spin up.

    I tried a few more times, with two different batteries, but no joy. So I walked home, plugging the drone back into my computer and tried manually running the motors in Betaflght Configurator. I could get them to spin up one at a time, but when I tried to spin all four I'd only get one or two to work. Then they wouldn't even work individually either. I tried ESC Configurator too and it could talk to the ESCs so they aren't completely dead, but I'm guessing they are damaged. It's either that or all four motors, but that seems unlikely.

    #FPV #FPVdrone #FPVquad #quadcopter

    #fpv #fpvdrone #fpvquad #quadcopter
  3. Anthony Horton @[email protected] ·

    I really want to get into flying my FPV quadcopters/drones again. First step, plug my radio into the computer and fire up a simulator. I have several, this one is Liftoff: Micro Drones.

    #FPV #FPVquad #FPVdrone

    #fpv #fpvquad #fpvdrone
  4. Brandon @[email protected] ·

    environmental storytelling

    #FPV #FPVQuad #FPVDrone

    #fpv #fpvquad #fpvdrone
  5. Anthony Horton @[email protected] ·

    Yikes. CaddX seem to be getting desperate in their attempts to compete with DJI, and they're really shooting themselves in the foot with this sort of behaviour: youtube.com/watch?v=c8aIjL3-GIM

    I don't want to buy into the DJI FPV system, but the way things are going I don't feel good about buying any more CaddX kit either.

    #FPVquad #FPV #FPVdrone

    #fpvquad #fpv #fpvdrone