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so the problem in my quad where one of the ESCs spins faster than the other three even after range calibrationm

I just opened up the quad, hooked each ESC individually to a receiver and calibrated it to my transmitter's throttle range and then played with throttle... the bad one was the same

it must be my CC3D board then, but I'm fairly sure I tested the ESC by itself (unplugged the others) and saw the same problem even after calibration on my computer

so confused

so it just won't take off at all?

it would take off okay

it was just one-on-one testing the ESC, that esc's idle speed was a lot higher than the others

like the other ESCs you'd have to set to like 60% throttle to match the one ESC at idle (the very lowest throttle that spins the motor, spins it much faster)

anyway it seems to be gone now even via CC3D. just did a calibration and tested each one and idle speed for all four is fine

oh in my very first statement I meant to say "is gone"

the problem is suddenly gone tonight

so I guess all that's left is to put it back together, and to adjust the angle of the camera a little less extreme, and then I have to mess with PIDs

I guess the good news is the ESC I bought can now go into a FT mini plane if I just get a mini motor and 5g servos

and i'd need small batteries... lol I don't think I'm going to bother with the FT mini series

omg i just finished one of the most annoying things i've ever had to do

so I was adjusting the angle of my FPV camera, and unscrewing the nuts with pliers, and my pliers scraped the circuit board and knocked a tiny component off, like 1mm

it was on the back of the board which I wasn't planning on fully taking off, so now I had to take it off in order to get to the spot and resolder the component

so it's just completely black, a tiny letter or number on it but who knows, no indication of which direction... hopefully it's bidirectional so I just solder it randomly

so then all the time screwing the FPV camera back in, put the rest of the quad together, etc

turn it on and guess what, black screen, but the configuration menu overlay works so it's not totally broken.. must've goten it backwards

take it back apart, take apart the annoying bracket, desolder it, resolder it (it's so TINY), check and IT WORKS!

back into bracket, back together. whew. but man was that little tiny component annoying.

Hi

Hello! (^_^)/

ricket: been there before. the hot air soldering guns are magic for this stuff. I've gotten the direction wrong before and ended up having that fry something else on the board.

the real lesson seems to be vigilance in dealing with bare electronics

yea I got lucky. and I've seen the hot air guns but don't have one... would've made it easier to get the stupid thing off of the board once I'd already soldered both sides lol

yes, you can just hit it with some heat and then pick it right up with a tweezers

in any case, quad is flying and ready for tomorrow

but it does fly mediocre, it drifts and has some yaw drift too... hope I can figure out how to get that out

mine too. got all my ducks in a row for FPV too

although still need a sma cloverleaf antenna for the googles

I only had rpsma :(

bastards and their ever so slightly different standards

yeah I wish there weren't two separate standards

FPV is a minefield of standarsd

between antennas connectors, cloverleaf turn direction, radio channels and yea---

you have to be pretty careful.

and it seems like antenna connectors are much harder to cut & solder than battery connectors

ugh yes

the board connectors are near impossible to desolder even with a hot air gun

and crimping your own antenna connectors isn't much of a cost savings between the connectors and the crimper

it's 2:30am here, I'm just waiting for batteries to finish so I can go to bed.....

should have started them much earlier and then they woulda long been done by now, except for my couple nimh

where do you charge?

either in the garage or up here in my loft, depending on where I am

I'm in an apartment

so no garage

I always fireproof bag them to charge, but a lipo fire would be no fun inside~

no doubt it'll happen sooner or later.

I have a couple lipo bags and a pan from the oven (small with high sides), a little spray can fire extinguisher and of course fire alarm (in the garage I have a fire alarm mounted on the top of my shelving unit so that it'll go off as soon as any smoke appears)

I have a fire extinguisher

but I fear it will be no match for a lipo

my hope is it will keep the things around the lipo subdued until the lipo stops doing its thing

lol

hi

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Hii

So I'm debating cheating out on a charger and getting an Imax. Or getting a cellpro or icharger

Any ideas

The cheap cellpro and icharger106b

Any ideas

gonna need a second ammo can lol https://imgur.com/YmHZzkr

imgur.com : Imgur

ouchns, yeah

hi

Hello! (^_^)/

can I get some advices

on chargers

im debating cheaping out and getting an imax or accucell, or getting a cellpromulti4, or possibly adding to the budget and getting a icharger106b

ideas?

what kidn of charger are you lookign for

something that can charger 1s-6s, probably no more than 6000mah, also to charge nimh

dc is fine, I have a psu i can use

a pc psu

um.....

?

i'm trying to locate my charger

it does all that

hitech x1 ac plus

that does everything

yes it does

so?

I typically charge my batteries at 2c so for my 1500mah thats 3amps. charges in 30min ish

for a 3s 1500mah

i can get a cellpro same price

your price thats just waht I purchased

I got that charger because it does everything even lead acid

so does the cellpro

and imax

and every charger

then what is your question....... your arguing over a suggestion.... pick what is right or $ for you.

idk what is

cellpro is 50 watt and 67 dollars

and an icharger is 150w

and 85

how are you going to charge? one at a time or tempt fate and parallel?

idk

I would suggest charging one at a time. far less chance of killing a battery or charger

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btw watts, HIGH watts only offers the ablity to charge super sized battery packs fast

or to risk doing parallel cahrging

my 6amp charger is more then enough for my needs...

6amp is how many watts

depends on the volts

ohms law

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