22-Jan-2018, 11:16 PM
I was excited to finally get my Rooster. Originally, this was going to be a typical build with stable firmware. But I decided to experiment with this one. I wanted to put all the stuff that has not been fully tested on the quad.
- F.Port for control and for telemetry on one wire.
- OSD camera control to work (not the same as VTX control)
- ESC telemetry (Not how sure how useful this is. It only gives you temperature and highest motor RPM.)
- Turtle Mode (I know it is not new). This is my first quad that I did this with. Makes sense considering this has top mounted lipos.
- 32K gyro/32K looptime. Overclocked CPU. Running experimental BIQUAD/FIR2 filter.
Frame: Armattan Rooster 5 inch
FC: Matek F405 AIO. Ignore the photos, I wanted to use JB F4 originally. But his FC doesn't have a gyro that support 32K gyro. The Matek is fairly well layout, even though I think CL Racing and JB are better. Wiring got a little messy because I am doing pretty much running everything. One less wire because no more SBUS wire.
Motors: Hypetrain 2306 2450Kv
ESC: Lumeniers 36A BLHeli 32
Camera: Runcam Eagle 2 Pro Lumeniers Edition
VTX: Matek VTX with IRCTramp control (Changed from Lumeniers, but virtually the same)
RX: XSR (I wanted to used R-XSR, but it doesn't support F.Port)
Antenna: TBS
The RX wiring is just soldered on for testing. I shorten and cleaned up the wiring for the final. Only the black wire where I hacked the non-inverted signal, 5V and ground were connected to the FC. No SBUS.
I soldered the XT60 straight to the FC. I redid that and I placed a short wire before it connects to the FC.
I also realized at this point when I was testing the motors, my FC was mounted the wrong way. I had to desolder most of it to reorient the FC.
Here it is all corrected.
What a wiring mess? I wish they have a RX pad at every corner for ESC telemetry.
The quad is quite heavy, but feels solid. AUW is 573g without GoPro. Build weigh was 394 gm. Some people were having issue with the arms moving. It is due to the low profile hex screw. There was too much slop in the hex and people couldn't tighten the screw enough. It was addressed in video below. I did not have the same problem, but will request new screws because I semi-strap some of the hex.
Final Thougts:
I have not flown it yet. Too wet out right now outside. Tested without props, and everything seem to be good with the 32K and new filter. I would also like to see how it flies with the Kalman filter 32K/16k and just 8K/8K on a stable build. I will eventually report back.
Camera control was a pain to setup. I am working on a tutorial with some of my troubleshooting. Hopefully it will help some of you who eventually want to implement this feature.
The new filter was also difficult to figure out how to activated it. I had to read the code changes to realized how to get the filter activated. I was planning to write up a tutorial for this too.
Overall, it was a fun build.
- F.Port for control and for telemetry on one wire.
- OSD camera control to work (not the same as VTX control)
- ESC telemetry (Not how sure how useful this is. It only gives you temperature and highest motor RPM.)
- Turtle Mode (I know it is not new). This is my first quad that I did this with. Makes sense considering this has top mounted lipos.
- 32K gyro/32K looptime. Overclocked CPU. Running experimental BIQUAD/FIR2 filter.
Frame: Armattan Rooster 5 inch
FC: Matek F405 AIO. Ignore the photos, I wanted to use JB F4 originally. But his FC doesn't have a gyro that support 32K gyro. The Matek is fairly well layout, even though I think CL Racing and JB are better. Wiring got a little messy because I am doing pretty much running everything. One less wire because no more SBUS wire.
Motors: Hypetrain 2306 2450Kv
ESC: Lumeniers 36A BLHeli 32
Camera: Runcam Eagle 2 Pro Lumeniers Edition
VTX: Matek VTX with IRCTramp control (Changed from Lumeniers, but virtually the same)
RX: XSR (I wanted to used R-XSR, but it doesn't support F.Port)
Antenna: TBS
The RX wiring is just soldered on for testing. I shorten and cleaned up the wiring for the final. Only the black wire where I hacked the non-inverted signal, 5V and ground were connected to the FC. No SBUS.
I soldered the XT60 straight to the FC. I redid that and I placed a short wire before it connects to the FC.
I also realized at this point when I was testing the motors, my FC was mounted the wrong way. I had to desolder most of it to reorient the FC.
Here it is all corrected.
What a wiring mess? I wish they have a RX pad at every corner for ESC telemetry.
The quad is quite heavy, but feels solid. AUW is 573g without GoPro. Build weigh was 394 gm. Some people were having issue with the arms moving. It is due to the low profile hex screw. There was too much slop in the hex and people couldn't tighten the screw enough. It was addressed in video below. I did not have the same problem, but will request new screws because I semi-strap some of the hex.
Final Thougts:
I have not flown it yet. Too wet out right now outside. Tested without props, and everything seem to be good with the 32K and new filter. I would also like to see how it flies with the Kalman filter 32K/16k and just 8K/8K on a stable build. I will eventually report back.
Camera control was a pain to setup. I am working on a tutorial with some of my troubleshooting. Hopefully it will help some of you who eventually want to implement this feature.
The new filter was also difficult to figure out how to activated it. I had to read the code changes to realized how to get the filter activated. I was planning to write up a tutorial for this too.
Overall, it was a fun build.