What’s the Story I have just started looking into how this all fits together. There are many different gimbals and controllers available. But how does it fit together, which firmware works with my chosen gimbal controller. I recently ordered this Gimbal and this Controller – old links removed. At this […]
I’m not really surprised I just sent a envelope Air-Post to France, containing a tiny circuit board. It was just thick enough that it wouldn’t go through the letter guide, due to a bit of bubble wrap inside. I sent a $9 item weighting a few grams, charged $10 shipping […]
Two ESCs Fail I’ve had two ESCs fail in one day, one in a zero-throttle fast descent and one while bench testing with no props and running off a 5A current-limited bench power supply. Both play the little tune through the motor when powered on but ignore PPM input and […]
The Fault No transmission – pretty simple really. Testing and Repair Turning it on and all seemed OK. The small radio scanner showed that there was no signal transmitted; at least not in the 40MHz band. Maybe the crystal or part of the transmitter circuit had failed. Next, open it […]
A Typical RC S-BEC I bought a couple of these S-BECs with the intention of installing one in a FPV wing. Before doing this I needed to know what it was capable of. This module is from Hobbyking and is rated to 26 Volts input and 5 Amps continuous output, […]
My Android phone battery only lasts a few hours when using the GPS to record tracking while hiking around the hills. So I was looking for a quick, cheap, simple and not too heavy solution. This took about an hour to assemble and test from parts I had in the […]
Test Setup – General I have connected the T1000FC to a 8-channel Corona DSSS receiver. Channels 1,2,4,6 (aileron,elevator,rudder,mode). Channel 3 (throttle) from the receiver goes directly to the ESC. There is no connection to the BATT terminals on the end. Power is applied via the leads from the receiver to […]
I’ve been using MPLAB-X on Kubuntu Linux on a laptop for quite a while now and converting projects over from the old Windows machine. Yesterday I went to work on a project started a couple of weeks ago and found that MPLAB-X which I believe runs in Netbeans, which is […]