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I know this thread is focused on build your own drones, but does anyone know where I can get a phantom 4 black intelligent flight battery? DJI doesn’t have them listed on their site anymore. Finally have time to fly more often and a mismatched battery would drive me nuts.
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KidDynamite posted:I know this thread is focused on build your own drones, but does anyone know where I can get a phantom 4 black intelligent flight battery? DJI doesn’t have them listed on their site anymore. Finally have time to fly more often and a mismatched battery would drive me nuts. I think the p4pro, original and advanced all use compatible batteries close your eyes until the drone gets high enough and you'll be ok
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Oct 8, 2019 14:58
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moron izzard posted:close your eyes until the drone ...
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Oct 8, 2019 17:50
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CapnBry posted:Wait, is this not how we're supposed to be flying all the time? Looking in the goggles makes me queasy. I don’t even fly my drone anymore, I just put it on a pre programmed flight while I get the nu-metal tracks queued up so I can upload it to YouTube faster
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Oct 8, 2019 18:17
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Buy some black vinyl dye and go to town on a white one ?
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Oct 8, 2019 19:38
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Did lots of flying this weekend, both LOS and FPV. My friends chased my airplane a lot, and despite doing three or four flights with three quads swarming it the whole time, we never midaired. But we got  Really  Freaking  Close
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Oct 8, 2019 21:28
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So the other day I was flying ...well the drone was flying I was just waiting for 40 minutes. I jokingly posted after that it was so boring and it sucked that I was using my phone to fly the drone so I had nothing to screw around on while waiting on the drone. I'd say like 3 people laughed and like 20 got super salty so mission accomplished.
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Oct 8, 2019 22:11
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i own every Bionicle posted:despite doing three or four flights with three quads swarming it the whole time, we never midaired Yeah I'd say that was pretty freaking close haha.
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Oct 9, 2019 04:53
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Airplane should be named the E.HONDA
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Oct 9, 2019 06:43
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"It's only a quick little hover test, I don't have to tether it down."   On the plus side, it (e: The wires will be taped down (and antenna properly mounted) before I ~actually~ start flying)
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Oct 20, 2019 20:50
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I don't even understand how you would ever power up a propped fullsize craft indoors. Even unpropped you can check for motor and FC direction.
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Oct 20, 2019 23:31
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That's simple: I'm an idiot. I had already checked spin direction and such unpropped. I told myself I would barely hover, like not even lift fully into the air, just create a little lift as a proof-of-my-hours-of-loving-with-configurators-had-paid-offedness. The inevitable occurred. I now understand Air Mode. I'm an idiot, but I'm a lucky idiot.
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Oct 21, 2019 00:20
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evil_bunnY posted:I don't even understand how you would ever power up a propped fullsize craft indoors.
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Oct 21, 2019 07:47
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Combat Pretzel posted:I've been autotuning my 5" indoors on windy days, when I still flew. It's perfectly safe if nothing goes wrong.
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Oct 21, 2019 07:56
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Corky Romanovsky posted:It's perfectly safe if nothing goes wrong.
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Oct 21, 2019 09:07
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Did my first loop and split s outside the simulator today. 
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Oct 21, 2019 09:13
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Corky Romanovsky posted:It's perfectly safe if nothing goes wrong. Something definitely went wrong. EDIT: But at least I was out on the back porch so it was like being in a blaster-proof room with a blaster going off. CapnBry fucked around with this message at 12:47 on Oct 21, 2019 |
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Oct 21, 2019 12:39
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I've only got one battery that I fly (flew) almost every day for the past two months and had the most fun thing happen. Flying straight and fast across a field, punched the throttle to shoot up high and the goggles went black. A fraction of a second later the video came back and I was still climbing, I reached apogee as the Betaflight logo came on the screen and I realized I had just sagged my battery so badly that I rebooted. Throttle down, disarm, set to ANGLE mode as I'm starting to fall back out of sky... and I realize I can't arm because the gyro calibration can't complete. I got to watch as my quad fell from about 50m up and snapped an arm on impact. The blackbox logs said that the previous punch was pulling 85A and sagged the battery to 3.1V/cell and I definitely gave it more throttle the second time so it was probably 90-100A. Is there any trick to force arming in that situation? Also, I want to "strap the quad down" to my workbench to get some better data about the limits, but I can't really google up any methods for doing this. I've got wood and nylon straps and clamps and everything I come up with feels a little loosey goosey. Any tips?
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Oct 31, 2019 13:04
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In Betaflight there is an option called arming angle, set this to 180 to be able to arm at any angle. You also need to have your throttle 0 to arm.
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Oct 31, 2019 13:29
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CapnBry posted:I've only got one battery that I fly (flew) almost every day for the past two months and had the most fun thing happen. Flying straight and fast across a field, punched the throttle to shoot up high and the goggles went black. A fraction of a second later the video came back and I was still climbing, I reached apogee as the Betaflight logo came on the screen and I realized I had just sagged my battery so badly that I rebooted. Throttle down, disarm, set to ANGLE mode as I'm starting to fall back out of sky... and I realize I can't arm because the gyro calibration can't complete. I got to watch as my quad fell from about 50m up and snapped an arm on impact. The blackbox logs said that the previous punch was pulling 85A and sagged the battery to 3.1V/cell and I definitely gave it more throttle the second time so it was probably 90-100A. There is a minimum arming angle, but IIRC that usually gets greyed out and goes away as soon as you enable turtle mode because the two sort of cancel eachother out and you cant even use turtle mode without your small_angle set to 180 anyways so it auto sets it. BUT even if you manually set your small_angle to 180. I think what you did will always screw you over because rebooting the entire FC requires an inital calibration and it always needs to do one of those from a standstill, even if you've set it up to arm from any angle afterward. I think. Maybe you can bypass that entirely, but I don't think that is what small_angle does
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Yeah the small_angle only restricts you from arming if the quad isn't level, but mine is already set to 180 so I can arm in a tree. Betaflight still wants to calibrate the gyro when it starts up though, and wants the quad to be not moving when it does. I know iNav has a feature where if you try to arm 5 times inside of 10 seconds it will force arm, I didn't know if there was some simple trick in betaflight to do it too. I'm not sure it would even be able to stabilize itself if the gyro were uncalibrated or if arming was forced during a freefall though.
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I remember coming across a setting called the "Moron Threshold" when searching for information about Betaflight a while ago. As I understand it, its purpose was to postpone gyro calibration until the gyro readings were stable (i.e. when the dumbass user finally puts the quad on the ground). https://oscarliang.com/moron-threshold-betaflight/ According to the article, the setting was renamed to "gyro_calib_noise_limit", but I don't know if it's still called that in 4.x. It definitely sounds like it would have prevented arming on a freshly booted flight controller while in a freefall. I think the real question is how you managed to starve the 5V regulator on a 3+ cell LiPo enough to reboot the flight controller. Even if it was step-down only, wouldn't it still be ok, even if vbat was sagged all the way down to 6-7V? I've had at least one "oh poo poo" moment with my relatively thirsty 5" hexacopter where it bogged down to ~2.5V per cell (before bouncing back up to 3.5V under load) and experienced a major drop in power when pulling out of a dive and neither the FC nor the VTX seemed to care.
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Check my understanding: On a R-XSR receiver, there's no need to connect "SBUS IN" on the receiver to anything unless I'm doing a crazy dual receiver setup, right? I just need "SBUS OUT" going to a RX on the FC... right?
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Rincey posted:Check my understanding: On a R-XSR receiver, there's no need to connect "SBUS IN" on the receiver to anything unless I'm doing a crazy dual receiver setup, right? I just need "SBUS OUT" going to a RX on the FC... right? The guides I'm looking at also indicate you'll need to connect the S.Port pad to get telemetry working.
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Zorilla posted:I think the real question is how you managed to starve the 5V regulator on a 3+ cell LiPo enough to reboot the flight controller. Even if it was step-down only, wouldn't it still be ok, even if vbat was sagged all the way down to 6-7V? I've had at least one "oh poo poo" moment with my relatively thirsty 5" hexacopter where it bogged down to ~2.5V per cell (before bouncing back up to 3.5V under load) and experienced a major drop in power when pulling out of a dive and neither the FC nor the VTX seemed to care.
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Lol, I just got surrounded by 8 cops and held for half an hour while they confirmed it was okay for me to fly my whoop in the local park.
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Stringent posted:Lol, I just got surrounded by 8 cops and held for half an hour while they confirmed it was okay for me to fly my whoop in the local park. Was a great day for it. Too bad I was nursing a hangover. No problems at all? Did you have anything at the ready highlighting the regulations (printed or links to websites)?
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Corky Romanovsky posted:Was a great day for it. Too bad I was nursing a hangover. No problems at all? Did you have anything at the ready highlighting the regulations (printed or links to websites)? No problems, just scared the hell out of me. They searched me to make sure I didn't have a memory card and wasn't recording video, took photos of my kit, and then spent half an hour on the phone figuring out of I was doing anything wrong or not. I was flying in a different part of the park because my regular spot had people in it, which it turns out is right behind Gakushuin Womens College, which my wife informs me is attended by princess Aiko, so that might have been why they were freaking out. I won't be flying there again.
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Rincey posted:Check my understanding: On a R-XSR receiver, there's no need to connect "SBUS IN" on the receiver to anything unless I'm doing a crazy dual receiver setup, right? I just need "SBUS OUT" going to a RX on the FC... right?
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Had a really close call with a plane on Saturday, and Today was out flying again, 30 mins after I leave a fuckin plane crashes at the airport. Cursed.
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Elendil004 posted:Had a really close call with a plane on Saturday, and Today was out flying again, 30 mins after I leave a fuckin plane crashes at the airport. Cursed. Uh, your post makes you out to be very irresponsible. Hope that isn't the case and you have and update safety plans.
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Nov 5, 2019 02:59
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Corky Romanovsky posted:Uh, your post makes you out to be very irresponsible. Hope that isn't the case and you have and update safety plans. Sorry kept the details vague. I've been flying commercially for 6ish years and I was being about as safe as possible. Airport switched the active runway without notifying me (as they we had all agreed would happen in a switch) and only caught it when a plane took off, my spotter saw it and I dove the drone for the ground.
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Nov 5, 2019 03:08
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Have any of you all taken drones traveling with you in the EU?
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Elendil004 posted:Sorry kept the details vague. I've been flying commercially for 6ish years and I was being about as safe as possible. Airport switched the active runway without notifying me (as they we had all agreed would happen in a switch) and only caught it when a plane took off, my spotter saw it and I dove the drone for the ground.
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Nov 5, 2019 10:52
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Gang tag contest! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3903115
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evil_bunnY posted:lmao why are you loving flying there Sounds like he was on a job?
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Elendil004 posted:Sorry kept the details vague. I've been flying commercially for 6ish years and I was being about as safe as possible. Airport switched the active runway without notifying me (as they we had all agreed would happen in a switch) and only caught it when a plane took off, my spotter saw it and I dove the drone for the ground. I have done a lot of flying of giant scale RC planes at full scale airports and air shows and my experience is that most full scale pilots don’t give a single gently caress about what the might be going on at the local small airport. I fly at an RC club that is at a small full scale airport, which closes to full scale traffic during RC contests or events, and without fail at least one plane comes in for landing when we are there every time. They are warned on radio that the airport is closed, but they don’t have a radio, their radio is on the wrong frequency, or they acknowledge, say they didn’t see the NOTAM, and land anyway. We land our stuff, let them come in, then carry on.
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i own every Bionicle posted:I have done a lot of flying of giant scale RC planes at full scale airports and air shows and my experience is that most full scale pilots don’t give a single gently caress about what the might be going on at the local small airport. I fly at an RC club that is at a small full scale airport, which closes to full scale traffic during RC contests or events, and without fail at least one plane comes in for landing when we are there every time. They are warned on radio that the airport is closed, but they don’t have a radio, their radio is on the wrong frequency, or they acknowledge, say they didn’t see the NOTAM, and land anyway. We land our stuff, let them come in, then carry on. Just report them to the FAA.
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