Hello, kinda the last shot really..
Probably a little 'off topic' for the current drone community but last year I had the idea to build a cheap drone from a kit off Ali (DJI F-450 FW) to use for aerial photography, it was only a side project (I fly helis) but after a few sessions of trying to calibrate the ESCs I gave up & it went in a box. This is the second big go, I'm currently on day 3 & pretty fed up of googling for new methods or clues, only to be disappointed beep.. beep.. beep..
So anyway this thing has 4x SimonK 30A ESCs, Radiolink Mini Pix FC with Ardupilot FW & a FrSky TD-MX receiver. Both MIssion Planner & QGroundControl seem to work fine radio-wise but obviously I can't get through the power or motor sections without ESCs.
I've tried the stick up, wait for beeps then down method countless times with each motor singly or all at once, TX rates are 100%, endpoints go to +/-100%.. dunno. I'm quite expecting to have to put the entire project in the bin & move on because this is absorbing way too much time now but, everything totalled up it does represent a modest wedge folding money so it would be wasteful. I'm hoping someone on here might have experience of this issue but no worries if not, thanks for reading!
Probably a little 'off topic' for the current drone community but last year I had the idea to build a cheap drone from a kit off Ali (DJI F-450 FW) to use for aerial photography, it was only a side project (I fly helis) but after a few sessions of trying to calibrate the ESCs I gave up & it went in a box. This is the second big go, I'm currently on day 3 & pretty fed up of googling for new methods or clues, only to be disappointed beep.. beep.. beep..
So anyway this thing has 4x SimonK 30A ESCs, Radiolink Mini Pix FC with Ardupilot FW & a FrSky TD-MX receiver. Both MIssion Planner & QGroundControl seem to work fine radio-wise but obviously I can't get through the power or motor sections without ESCs.
I've tried the stick up, wait for beeps then down method countless times with each motor singly or all at once, TX rates are 100%, endpoints go to +/-100%.. dunno. I'm quite expecting to have to put the entire project in the bin & move on because this is absorbing way too much time now but, everything totalled up it does represent a modest wedge folding money so it would be wasteful. I'm hoping someone on here might have experience of this issue but no worries if not, thanks for reading!