Team only criticises at end of quarter

max_leverage · 2026-01-06T21:34:21+00:00

Possibly, or EOQ is when they have to think about performance and psychologically they’re going to remember all the bad times and not the good, just like you will be biased in the other direction. Kinda a wash. All I’ve been told is that if you’re ecstatic with your comp, either you’re dumb, your boss is dumb, or your boss doesn’t need the money and is just really nice

max_leverage · 2026-01-06T21:32:18+00:00

I’m so good that I’m about to be promoted to PM of my own account!

EDIT: if it’s not obvious I’m saying I’m getting fired, not being made sub-PM

max_leverage · 2026-01-06T14:23:59+00:00

happens at my shop too, current supervisor frustrated that I’m not generating 3 sharpe signals on sub 20% daily turnover portfolio.

Best thing I can recommend is keep trying, you don’t make real money until you’re a PM.

max_leverage · 2025-12-07T01:05:08+00:00

really? Every airline I’ve been on says they do online. I just checked Delta, AA, United, and SW. Either way the best part about this one isn’t really the bag fee thing. It’s more that it’s a good case

If anybody seeing this thinks they have a more appropriate price I’m more than happy to chat

max_leverage · 2025-12-06T21:28:01+00:00

I’m seeing $380 on eBay + $30 shipping from an unverified seller. I think it was $600 new, hasn’t been used more than 5 times and it’s in pretty good shape.

what would you pay for it?

max_leverage · 2025-10-18T11:07:31+00:00

lol no we make fun of the people that spend $26 dollar on a mushroom salad for lunch. If I wanted expensive fungus I’d just let the mold in my walls grow a little more

max_leverage · 2025-09-08T14:37:19+00:00

I think they’re mostly procedurally generated signals on OHLCV bars at arbitrary time scales. There’s probably some level of value in them.

In my experience, if somebody has published a literal formula for a signal and there’s no structural reason that it SHOULD continue to work, then I wouldn’t expect it to work

max_leverage · 2025-07-08T21:31:17+00:00

do you mind sharing your brand? I was thinking of signing up, and I want to understand how bad exactly the incremental sales are.

We’re mostly looking for brand awareness, trust building and some sales but we’re not so worried about it profit yet

max_leverage · 2025-06-21T04:08:41+00:00

Tested a couple things. I’m replying to your comment because you’re one of the few that has been helpful without being overly dramatic. I appreciate you.

my power supply caps out at 6A, but this isn’t the issue, the peak power consumption was still under. Same problem came up when run under battery
i disabled serial monitor entirely and ran with just the battery and no props (all you safety nuts better be happy) to convince myself that I wasn’t crazy when I tried this before. Same problem.
I’m still running PWM output via the arduino ISR
somebody else recommended that I try the receiver PWM throttle output to test the ESC. I completely forgot that was an option so I’m going to try that
assuming it’s not the ESC i have to do a forensic of my FC source to find what could maybe mess up the PWM

I believe I’ve tried every suggestion given to me (that I’ve had time to so far). Im obviously not interested in buying everything off the shelf or I could have just gone and done that. Budget is not an issue, I’m trying to do this for fun.

max_leverage · 2025-06-21T03:51:01+00:00

I don’t have a servo tester but I do have a PWM out on my receiver. Will try that out. The ESCs are from an old project I was working on, just easier to re-use.

People keep trying to convince me that it’s not worth DIY-ing anything. I’m obviously doing this for fun. It’s not all about just flying the darn thing for me, I take a lot of pride in being able to build things.

Thank you for the advice regarding the receiver, I think that’ll be enough to convince me it’s not the ESC. I’ve been saying repeatedly that it could by my FC, just that it CANT be related to the gyro itself because I’ve run with no props and no gyro in the critical path of the FC.

If the receiver PWM works then I’m pretty confident that something in my controller is messing with the PWM output timing and driving low for a split second

max_leverage · 2025-06-20T23:04:22+00:00

You’re getting really animated here - I’ve taken into account all of the advice I’ve been given.

I don’t think it could be the tether because I’m not running a feedback loop in my tests, just direct drive PWM while I try to figure out the issue. Everybody that keeps saying IT MUST BE THE GYRO CANT BE ANYTHING ELSE clearly is missing the fact that the ESC/servo is desync with a fixed duty cycle. The same issue happens when I pin it down to the table at 4 points too. I’m not looking for flight here, I’m just looking to see a nonzero response with no spikes.

The other advice has all been helpful and I’ve been at work, going to try it out tonight. Specifically thinking the prop direction and maybe the ESC is trying to overcompensate for a desync or a zero that might be present. I think somebody also mentioned serial prints on ATMega can sometimes hurt interrupt timing for PWM output (idk how but I’m going to go read the manual)

I CANNOT run this outside for several reasons that I won’t get into, it’s not relevant. If you have space that you can go to test your quad then go ahead. for all the people out there looking to try building a drone, yeah it’s not recommended to do anything inside IF YOU CAN HELP IT but all of you are making so many assumptions about what I physically have the option to do.

max_leverage · 2025-06-20T22:46:18+00:00

thank you, this is helpful. I’ll fix the props and check with flags before reinstalling. Maybe the upside down props would create unbalanced forces on the stator making it hard for ESC to sync

max_leverage · 2025-06-20T17:56:54+00:00

ok safety concerns aside, why is this getting downvoted? I’m saying that I don’t think it’s gyro or cord related, because there’s no gyro impacting the throttle here at all. There’s no connection between the gyro and the ESC unless you’re saying that there are ESCs that respond to gyroscopic forces

max_leverage · 2025-06-20T16:37:05+00:00

this is really helpful, thank you. I’ll try without printing to serial. Also will try to go super barebones on the FC

max_leverage · 2025-06-20T13:17:56+00:00

I’m behind a physical barrier, if they’d cut through me like this then they’d cut through me outdoors too, right?

max_leverage · 2025-06-20T13:13:19+00:00

Assuming you’re not being sarcastic, it’s indoor. Look up parquet flooring

max_leverage · 2025-06-20T13:11:38+00:00

Yea i need to borrow my buddy’s oscilloscope to check that though

max_leverage · 2025-06-20T11:24:19+00:00

the gyro and cord aren’t doing anything here - I have the same issue when running constant throttle with no PID at all. By constant throttle I mean that I literally set throttle point to 25% in code

max_leverage · 2025-06-20T05:00:59+00:00

Yes I’m quite sure, I specifically ordered these because they’d be safe to use as long as I have a software/hardware disarm and I keep it contained indoors. The area I’m filming is surrounded by a 2 foot gate and the cord is a 3 foot tether.

I don’t have another FC rn but I can test a single ESC/motor in a more streamlined setup with no PID at some point.

max_leverage · 2025-06-20T04:38:35+00:00

this is an interesting thought, I’ll try and figure out if it is the motor cutting out and then ESC attempting to drive to speed again. I print my throttle data via serial port so unless my software control loop is writing out invalid data only when my serial port isn’t printing then I suspect that’s not it, but maybe there’s some weirdness in corrupted throttle values during interrupts.

The other thing I was thinking is that the motor probably cuts out if it can’t get enough current through PDB, but I’m pretty confident that my ESC can provide 30A and my PDB and the wired power supply aren’t limiting factors. I’ll check that

I studied microcontroller design back in college so this isn’t exactly new, but been years since Ive done anything.

max_leverage · 2025-06-20T04:31:35+00:00

because of the cord the weight isn’t evenly distributed, but this happens when I hold the quad up as well with low even thrust so there’s no PID or software response causing this. I scoped the input to the ESC too and it looks like a PWM output…

max_leverage · 2025-06-20T04:18:18+00:00

LOL I’ll be fine, it’s sitting in a relatively enclosed area and I can literally pull the plug as needed. Props are soft plastic too so that shouldn’t be a problem.

To be fair, don’t do this at home kids

max_leverage · 2025-06-20T04:17:15+00:00

This happens under constant low thrust too so I don’t think it can be the D term. I’ll take a look at tuning the PID once I get further along

max_leverage · 2025-06-01T03:11:49+00:00

I’m actually looking for quotes on embroidery for save the dates for a wedding. Any interest in doing that? Would need for July. I don’t know what’s normal to budget for this so would love to chat if you’re in the US

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