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0 Years ago I built and flew quads using Open Pilot Revolution FC’s. It was recommended then to 3D print a case for the FC and to cover the baro with a piece of open cell foam in order to ensure baro accuracy.
I have a CF 10” in progress that will be setup with iNav. Just wondering what the current thinking is with ensuring baro accuracy?
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12 Some builds don't seem to need it some do. Depends on the design, layout, canopy or not, the airflow throughout the stack. I prefer to use an open board without anything for cooling unless i have issues then ill just wedge a small piece of soft foam between the stacks over the barometer keeping it as small as possible to keep the airflow over other components.
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0 The baro is on the bottom of this FC, unlike the Revo. Easy to sandwich a little foam between it and the ESC stack.
Thanks for your response.
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796 I always seem to get much more accurate (and less fluctuating) altitude readings with a small piece of open cell foam over the barometer, so I have now got into the habit of always doing that even if it might not be needed in some cases. I find the foam you get in the battery boxes of some brands of LiPo is ideal.
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118 Just use the foam from a microphone or headset as its the right type in my opinion.
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0 I have a piece of foam covering all my baro's. Before I started doing that I did quite a bit of testing trying to diagnose one baro issue.
For FCs that have the Baro n the bottom I simply position a piece of foam between the fc and esc. I usually use a piece about 8mm thick so it is well squashed.
For an fc with a baro on top I made a little transparent plastic cover with two holes 20mm apart so the fc screws hold it and the foam goes between the plastic and the Baro.
My third baro is simply a little bmp280 i2c board. It is small so I wrapped the whole board plus the foam in kapton tape leaving one side open.
Also, I would be interested in hearing from anyone using dps310 baro in betaflight and what temperature accuracy you get. As I have 2 of them and two of bmp280 and the bmp280 are substantially better despite the datasheet.
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118 I have 1 FC with DPS310, an external DPS310 I2C module and 2 other FC's with BMP280 but I have never tested them side by side.
Based on the datasheets DPS310 is supposed to be superior compared to BMP but I assume the DPS310 code is not updated or mature enough to compensate for temperature variations.
With Betalight there is not much autonomous flying apart from a GPS Rescue function to help out of danger before regaining video/RC signal. So in the grand scheme of things I am not sure it matters much.
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