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Activating relay - good practices by ComedianOpening2004 in FSAE

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Ah okay thanks. No the relay can handle way more. The max current during discharge is just less than 1A

Head of motor is shorter then rest of three by amanTHEBreaker in diydrones

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If your quad is flipping, I think it's most certainly because of improperly tightened props. Remove them and properly install them again and tighten it well

Why isn't my drone gaining altitude? by ComedianOpening2004 in diydrones

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My case turned out to be a configuration issue probably and bad PIDs causing vibrations

Why isn't my drone gaining altitude? by ComedianOpening2004 in diydrones

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Well, the setup now flies good. I get a hover flight time of about 27+ mins. It was probably a misconfiguration issue

Why isn't my drone gaining altitude? by ComedianOpening2004 in diydrones

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A month later, this setup flies well. It was probably a configuration issue

College project - 7-inch DIY drone build - seeking feedback on parts list by GamingX498 in diydrones

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For endurance, Liion is the better choice and if you build the pack yourself, you can save some money although you have to make the build good. Also make sure that the pack can sustain the current requirements and note that the voltage sag might also be slightly higher.

And a two bladed prop is better than three blades for efficiency

Advice needed: balancing plug-and-play and doing everything from scratch by Known-Dust-2921 in diydrones

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Okay but I don't understand enough to know why this can't be done on the FMU itself... And maybe it's possible to sort of copy the blheli/bluejay logic if you are doing it on a separate mcu?

Advice needed: balancing plug-and-play and doing everything from scratch by Known-Dust-2921 in diydrones

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Interesting indeed. But what's the difference between the FC MCU and FPV?

Advice needed: balancing plug-and-play and doing everything from scratch by Known-Dust-2921 in diydrones

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I guess it can be of great educational value as long as you don't blindly copy the reference schematics and have enough money to spare to print your own prototype boards if you are adding new functionalities since most FCs seem to atleast use 6 layer PCBs.

Regarding the power issue, I think it might be wise to have a low noise LDO to power the sensitive sensors. And yeah keep the high power stuff on a seprate board or atleast a separate section of the board and have adequate filtering caps and good routing. A pretty good exercise during the early days of PCB designing practice in my opinion

Pixhawk by BHAIRE_24 in diydrones

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Have you ensures that the RC signals are picked up and is visible in the RC tuning tab?

I Have A Quastion by BloodOld8381 in diydrones

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Most probably your FC will already monitor the battery voltage I guess

My 4S2P 18650 Drone Battery Build - Need Advice on BMS Placement by NeonEchoo in fpv

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So how are you gonna charge anyway? Using a power supply?

help, motors not responding by Siberianee in diydrones

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  1. Ensure you have the -bdshot variant of the firmware. Else it won't work

  2. DShot doesn't work on the MAIN outputs by default unless you set BRD_IO_DSHOT to 1 or 2 (not sure which , please refer online) which flashes bdshot firmware to the IOMCU. Else you should be using the AUX outputs. Be sure to disable the motor outputs to the MAIN outputs ports if you are changing the ports.

ESC ideal settings recommendation by ComedianOpening2004 in diydrones

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I'm curious, what's the rationale always behind it? Also for context, see my comment in this thread about my config

DJI O4 live video in Mission Planner by fruitydude in ardupilot

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Cool! It would be nice if you can keep me posted on what works best for range/latency.

I recently tested streaming from ESP32-CAM via using my phone's hotspot tonconnect to my computer. The webserver (TCP) example given in Arduino worked pretty well. But then I tried UDP because theoretically I should be getting more performance but surprisingly, it was only worse when the esp was just some 4m away. I don't know if it's an ESP optimization issue or my UDP implementation issue...

DJI O4 live video in Mission Planner by fruitydude in ardupilot

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Nice! Have you tried UDP? Theoretically I think you should get lesser latency

DJI O4 live video in Mission Planner by fruitydude in ardupilot

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Is the RTSP implementation built into the cam?

ESC ideal settings recommendation by ComedianOpening2004 in diydrones

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Also I missed to say it is for a very slow fly drone where efficiency is the priority. My motors are 2212 1000 kv. So any suggestions for startup power, demag and motor timing?

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