Now look at that, I just found the workaround to get my ESCs running on DSHOT600. As i mentioned way earlier in the thread my Motor 4 didn't work at all in any of the DSHOT settings.

The workaround appears to be a software remapping of the Motor output from 4 to 5 and of course to wires the 4th ESC to Motor Signal 5.

https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight/issues/2162



Man this thread is getting out of Hand xD At first I intended to make a clean build thread with as little text as possible... and now it's basically a debug thread ^^

But that's okay Might help some people with the same issues

Its a great thread, lots to learn and great to walk through the process with you.

I fixed the wiring as we planned, meaning I added a GND wire to the VTX Video wire, I grounded VTX and the Runcam on the OSD. My Video issues appear to be entirely gone.  My Radio RX and my VTX are mounted to the top plate and connected via JST SH connectors, so it's rather easy to detach the plate and that's why they are not in the picture.

   

The only thing remaining is my failing OSD.

   

Another view on the compact wiring between the PDB and FC

   

My Kylin Vision goggles with Video Output Mod attached to a Videomonitor for Vehicle internal CCTV cams. So the Monitor was already rated for 12-24V, I just added a Coax video cable with BNC connector and two wires for powers with a XT60 socket

   



Today I flew my second pack Acro (and additional 4 ones) after that. It was a lot of fun and I think in my opinion I am already quite good at it ^^ But i don't have any videoproof xD

But I have weird issues:

- Starting the Quad in Air Mode, flying out to the field and switching to Acro is no issue. But when I switch back to Air Mode it's totally unbalanced and flys in an unwanted direction as if it was not calibrated anymore. How can this happen? I just checked the Betaflight Settings and realized that the magnetometer was not activated aswell as the Barometer. Could that influence it? I activated both and recalibrated everything, even the ESCs.

- When i was in Acro Mode doing Punchouts, the Quad didn't fly symmetrical, it felt like one engine was giving more thrust than the others, but only on max throttle. Up to 80%-90% there was no issue.

Otherwise I am absolutely statisfied with my Quad

Ty you all for your Help to get this thing off the ground. Tomorrow I will remap the Motor 4 to Motor Out 5 and of course swap the wire to that solderpad. I hope that I then will be able to run the ESCs on DSHOT 600

Do you mean Angle mode and not Air mode?

Air mode is a function that you can add to the currently selected flight mode. Your available flight modes are Acro(default), Angle and Horizon. Air mode can be added to any of them and gives you greater authority at low throttle.

In Angle mode, the quad should self level. If it doesn't, try recalibrating the accelerometer and make sure the quad is level when you calibrate.

The Motor remapping really worked. Like it's said in the link i had to input in CLI

resource MOTOR 5 NONE
resource MOTOR 4 A06

set motor_pwm_protocol = DSHOT600

save

Everything is working now, at least on the testbench

Yeah I meant angle mode. I know changed my settings for the Modes so the first mode is Angle mode, the second one is Acro(no mode) + Airmode and the third is Acro alone. I don't need Horizon Mode anyway, going straight for Acro now that my Videofeed works properly except for the OSD.

Went flying last weekend. Quad worked perfectly fine except that the PIDs are not adjusted of course. Had a lot of oscillations. I will adjust them the next time I can go flying. I also ordered 2400mAh of field charging batterys

Here is a picture one of the other guys took of my while I was passing next to me. Acro is just amazing to fly.

   

For the next flight I printed a GoPro Mount


   

And I ordered a chair that I can fold to such small dimensions that I can strap it to the back of my Motorbike


   

A picture of my Gaming corner with my FPV gear on the left side



   

Dude great pic! (the fly-by) Could be a great FPV stock photo for sure
And remind me not to play as your opponent in any gaming situation

(05-May-2017, 01:12 PM)Drone0fPrey Wrote: Dude great pic! (the fly-by) Could be a great FPV stock photo for sure
And remind me not to play as your opponent in any gaming situation

Yeah man I really like it. Imagine that with a professional camera. Would be good stuff

Hahaha yeah Gaming is Love Gaming is Life xD Usually I got Teamspeak on one monitor, some youtube videos or TV shows on the other one and center is the actual gaming screen

Don't know how but this one guy who's always there flying has a talent for taking awesome pictures with his phone ^^

I was trying a bit of PID tuning while another one of the guys was calibrating his DJI Mavic Pro

       

PID tuning already removed a lot of the oscillations but there is still along way to go but i feel confident to get it tuned within this month.

Awesome indeed!

A shot of you crashing into the Mavic at high speed would have been even more entertaining!

Congratz on the build, glad it's working fine now!

And OT:

(06-May-2017, 11:36 AM)Apicalis Wrote: Hahaha yeah Gaming is Love Gaming is Life xD Usually I got Teamspeak on one monitor, some youtube videos or TV shows on the other one and center is the actual gaming screen

Yeah i heard lag helps in certain games... JK
What are you usually playing btw?

(08-May-2017, 07:23 PM)fftunes Wrote: Congratz on the build, glad it's working fine now!

And OT:
Yeah i heard lag helps in certain games... JK
What are you usually playing btw?

I am so happy that it's performing good now. Now it's all about getting used to flying ( right now i fly like an epilleptic having a seizure [nervous hands]) but it will be gone over time. Also I am going to adapt the RC Expo on Betaflight so my nervous fingers don't interfere so much as they do now.

I think I am also going to Log the flight Data next time since the SPRACING Evo has that feature to see if I can find out what the oscillation frequencies are to insert them into the filter algorithms.



Yeah in some Games lag certainly helps
Right now I play mostly DotA2, Rainbow Six Siege and players unknown battlegrounds. But my Steam library is full of other games aswell

   

Aaaaah i killed it xD

Somehow my Receiver didn't work anymore (guess the cable got disconnected) and my quad decided to use the last input and keep it. Which meant, go crash into that tree, from there onto a rock and then into the water.

As you can see the Frame got smashed and I need a new one so i wanted to hear some suggestion from you guys for a frame with a top mounted battery and 5" props. In this frame I had way too much space.

Also I know there is some Failsafe feature that let's your quad go into stable mode and decend with a set throttle. Can anybody recommend a guide for that feature?

That's bad news.

The Armattan Chameleon would be very good. Top mounted battery on a low deck, 5" props and lifetime warranty so that next time something like that happens, you just send Armattan some photos of what you broke and they send you the new parts to fix it for just the postage cost!

Failsafe is something you should check as part of setting up your quad. How to set it up depends a lot on the type of receiver you use. The other side of failsafe is making sure that you do a range test so that you know what kind of range to expect and using the RSSI feature so that you can get an alarm if you start to get too far away.

I really would not recommend that you use the 'land' mode for failsafe. All it does is set the control channels to centre and the throttle to whatever value you specify for a certain number of seconds. That won't mean that the quad will stabilise itself and land nicely for you. Inertia will keep the quad moving in whatever direction it was travelling when the signal was lost. It will also still drift with the wind and the props will keep trying to spin until the failsafe land time has expired. This could damage your motors and ESCs if the quad has already hit the ground or got stuck in a tree and the props can't actually spin. It would also be dangerous to anyone nearby.

The safest failsafe method is 'drop'. This cuts the throttle and just lets the craft fall. If you've range tested and used your RSSI alarm, you shouldn't be getting into failsafe situations unless something has actually malfunctioned or the batteries in your radio suddenly run out.

The SpaceOne 220X is very good.  Not lifetime warranty like Armattan products, but it's a tank! 4.5mm bottom, 2mm top, Aluminum standoffs, lots of CF motor protection.  At $40 it's a pretty good deal, too. (Also electronics stack isolated from the 6 standoffs connecting top and bottom plates.)

https://www.spaceonefpv.com/products/f1-...-x-edition