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First Flight Test

A project log for Multirotor Camera platform for Extreme Sports

A lightweight, compact but robust FPV quadcopter for filming fast action and extreme sports...on a budget!

kmdKMD 02/19/2015 at 11:230 Comments

Initial flight with no tuning on either the FC or Gimbal. It was quite breezy but flight wise I think it should be good with some tuning.

The camera gimbal however is another matter. While pitch seems OK, the roll is having serious issues. What's more concerning is that I can't replicate the problem on the ground. This means that it's either vibration related (unlikely, but possible) or the gimbal controller is picking up interference from the Quad-ESC which is mounted below it.

If it's the latter then it will have to be moved, unfortunately this means moving it closer to the Flight Controller. It may be that I have to ditch the Quad-ESC and put individual ESC's on the arms. This would mean building a Power Distribution Board but would enable me to use SimonK firmware on the ESC's.

I'll wait for calmer weather and run the APM Auto-Tune and play with the Gimbal PIDs in the meantime though and see what happens.

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