Another sunny day in the test airfield trying to fly the @Nio's hexacopter. Fail!
It's impossible to takeoff in a controlled way. We have tried @Nio's APM/IMU in the @JC's tiny hexacopter and it works perfect.
This discards the possibility of an APM fail or any code related issues.
Antonio has also exchanged the position of some motors and ESCs with no luck.
We have now some doubts about our new power distribution board, maybe it is not providing each ESC with an enough amount of amps.
We will try to modify the design to come back to a classic power distribution board with cables.
Some pictures of the test:
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Friday, March 18, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
A difficult day
Today we have tried to fly the new @Nio's hexacopter.
We have find a good place to serve as our main test airfield, a lot of space, no near obstacles. Perfect conditions: sunny, no wind.
But there is something wrong!. It is impossible to take off with the hexa equilbrated. Radio trim is not enough to compensate the deviation. We try to modify the gyros offsets but with no luck.
It could be:
Some pictures:
Maybe tomorrow will be a better day!
We have find a good place to serve as our main test airfield, a lot of space, no near obstacles. Perfect conditions: sunny, no wind.
But there is something wrong!. It is impossible to take off with the hexa equilbrated. Radio trim is not enough to compensate the deviation. We try to modify the gyros offsets but with no luck.
It could be:
- Hardware
- Front Motor/ESC?
- APM/IMU Fail?
- Power distribution not providing enough amp for an ESC peak?
- Software
- Any bug in the latest revision of ardupirates hexa code?
- Incorrect PID settings?
Some pictures:
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| From spcopter |
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| From spcopter |
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| From spcopter |
Maybe tomorrow will be a better day!
