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Rotate quad orientation without swapping motor wires
#1
anyone know if its possible to rotate quad orientation 180 degrees without swapping motor wires, i know the board command to rotate work but the motors need to be changed too.... ?

i got them soldered in that's why i wondered if i could have done it any other way...
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#2
Yes the motors need to have the correct orientation. So you'll have to move around the signal lines.

There may be some CLI trickery you could do but it's really just easier and more reliable to resolder.

You could change the motor mix through cli to do it.

Edit: we have a tutorial on the forum : http://intofpv.com/t-remap-motor-outputs...utput-pins
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#3
Then all you have to do is in Cleanflight put 180 in yaw and I believe in pitch and roll also. Double check it on the config page to make sure the artificial horizon moves in the correct direction when tilting the quad....
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(18-Aug-2016, 09:29 PM)Multirotor Army Wrote: Then all you have to do is in Cleanflight put 180 in yaw and I believe in pitch and roll also. Double check it on the config page to make sure the artificial horizon moves in the correct direction when tilting the quad....

He doesn't want to just turn the FC, he want to fly it as if the back is the front. So what are now the back motors would be the front motors. It requires a custom mix.
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#5
If you really have to do this, in CF/BF you can "rotate the FC" + add a custom map using mmix in cli rebinding the motors
this is theory not tested in practice. and i agree with above 10 mintues of soldering not that terrible Big Grin

*edit
DragonFly beat me to it Smile

and here a bit of learning help
All the best
Grzesiek (Grisha/ Greg)

Curently flyable: Nox 5, Minimalist 112
Bench / in progres: fixing Nox 3,  Scrap
thinking about building: 450


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#6
(18-Aug-2016, 09:28 PM)DragonFly Wrote: Yes the motors need to have the correct orientation. So you'll have to move around the signal lines.

There may be some CLI trickery you could do but it's really just easier and more reliable to resolder.

You could change the motor mix through cli to do it.

gonna have a go at it now... first time custom mix...
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#7
Hey sushicanfly,
Are you moving the motors to different arms, or are you just rotating the flight controller in the frame?  If you are only rotating the FC, you don't need mixing or resoldering - just tell cleanflight that you've rotated the controller (yaw adjust 180).
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