Tim Nilson Ha! I hear you. When I fired it up the first time it sounded like a lawnmower in the garage. Flies really well though. I'm looking forward to doing some flight duration tests soon.
Thanks again for the videos. I have used these videos a number of times to program my Taranis over the last couple of years. They are as handy today as when you first published them.
***** It really is a great frame. I've enjoyed flying with my QAV400 over the past year. The QAV500 is considerably larger and can carry quite a bit more payload....especially with 13" props :) I hope all is well.
Great video as always Dennis. The battery on that QAV 500 looked like a brick on top of it. Yet still very stable. Can't wait to see a battery that is half that size and double the power.
etab83 You and me both. The battery life/weight is really the biggest challenge when it come to our hobby....and the automotive world as well :) Just ask Elon Musk of Tesla! Thanks for the comment and hope all is well.
Damn man. Getfpv hooked you up with some good products. The best out there right now. Man I wish I had a qav 500 with naza v2 , tmotors . Tmotor props and a tattu battery.
Nelson inastrilla It is a really nice setup. I'm going to be putting Pixhawk in it soon and will share my experience. Looking forward to ripping the NAZA out :)
hey dennis what a great service to make the profile available for download, although i am not a naza user. really looking forward to your experiences with pixhawk! great collaboration between tim and you!!
Cool, downloaded template and will try soon. Have Taranis and Rx installed in Phantom 2 Vision +. One connection. Sbus. Left DJI receiver. Thanks for all the hard work.
Thanks Dennis, nice frame and really liked the 90 degree antenna gizmo. Had a friend in, my club who just had to mention mine needed to be, at 90 degrees. Wait til he sees that! Im the only electric guy and multirotor guy there
KandJ Steward Too funny. One thing I was wondering is since the actual wires are part of the antenna is if the 90 degree split should happen right as they come out of the receiver vs it happening right at the PCB part of the antenna. I'll have to look into this some more. Good luck showing the guys at your club who's boss :)
on the turnigy 9x with default firmware you can easily setup a forced failsafe by going into throttle hold and turning it to active. that will make it so the left back switch on the transmitter will put the naza into failsafe mode regardless of the three position switch :)
( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) Zevi Rubin Ah cool! Very good tip. I never knew about this when I used to fly with my T9X but if I do bring it back to life I'll definitely give this a try. Thanks for the tip.
JohnVH541 Good question. Here you go: 380kV Tiger Motors: www.getfpv.com/tiger-motor-mt-4008-18-380kv.html 13x5 Beechwood props: www.getfpv.com/tiger-motor-beech-wood-propeller-13x5.html 6200mAh battery: www.getfpv.com/tattu-6200mah-6s-35c-lipo-battery.html I'll be share my flight time test results soon. I also have this 8000mAh battery I'll be testing as well: www.getfpv.com/lumenier-8000mah-6s-25c-lipo-battery.html I hope with the 8000mAh battery to get 30 minutes or more. We will see and I'll definitely let you know.
Hi Dennis, Great vid!!! Is it possible to configure as you have done but also be able to adjust the pitch on a camera gimbal? I have a gimbal controller and I want to be able to adjust the pitch on the camera. I have done it using the conventional 8 channel with the X8R but not sure how to do it using the SBUS. Using SBUS does not allow me to use the spare channel for controlling pitch. Any ideas?
Great videos, Dennis. One thing I am confused about is the throttle channel sitting at zero when failsafe is engaged- is it normal for the throttle channel to still appear to be controlled by my radio in the NAZA assistant screen after FS has been engaged manually, as opposed to what happens when I turn my radio off, where the throttle channel pre-set is shown jumping to the 60% level that I pre-set in the failsafe custom settings in Taranis? Hope that's clear!
What? Good question and yes I think that's normal. The quick and dirty for me is to make sure that I see the FS led flashing quickly. Then I know that NAZA will take care of the rest. Just to be safe I keep throttle near 50% while in failsafe just in case anything happens. Never had an issue, but it's my failsafe for failsafe!
Dear Dennis, By any chance, do you have an updated copy of your FrSky setup? My students have constructed a F550 drone with Naza V2, using the S-Bus. Our Taranis x9d plus is version 2.2.4. When we tried installing your Taranis setup, we get an “Incompatible” message. From looking at ways to make it work, it appears the later OpenTX software isn’t able to read older models. My students are close to maidening their drone, but we’d like to compare it to someone else’s setup. Thank you for your videos...they’ve been a huge help to my students and I.
I've seen that antenna stand, but I have a carbon fiber frame and I'm concerned that the signal will be blocked by it if the receiver antennas are on top. Do you think that will be the case, and would it be optimum to do basically the same thing with the antennas sticking DOWN, or OUT? (perpendicular to the ground, or parallel at 90deg?)
Hugh Hemington Good question. To be honest I'm not sure. But it's definitely worth a test. Carbo has a downward facing version of the mast as well. You can see it in the photos on this page: www.thingiverse.com/thing:258146 Please let us know what you find out! Thanks.
Dennis, Since the pcb antenna is the, actual antenna as long as its split there it, will work. The rest of the wire is actually a sheilded coax and the center lead doesnt radiate any RF until it gets to that pcb. Actually as long as those 2 antenna are more than a wavelength apart they shouldn't interfere with each other anyway. At 2.4 gig what is, a wavelength? 25cm maybe less. Ive never had an issue with it anyways. I did pickup frskys big bad long range reciever and will be giving it a go here shortly. By the way Dennis your the boss! Thanks buddy, Kevin
KandJ Steward Great thoughts, Kevin. Thanks for sharing. I figured there would be some radiation prior to the PCB, but if there is it's nominal. I believe a 2.4GHz wavelength is about 12 cm. Anyway, glad to hear about your long range receiver. Keep me posted on how it goes!
Hey Dennis, is that the 6200 mah on that quad?, looks so huge and heavy. Also, gonna be building one myself. What ESC's are you running exactly with those 3508-29 motor. I was thinking about going with a TATTU 10,000 battery and the DJI E800 propulsion system. What you think?, your advice would really help in my confirmation to go ahead with the purchase. Love the QAV 500.. Thanks again.....
***** Yes that's the 6200mAh batt on the quad. These are the ESCs I'm running: www.getfpv.com/lumenier-30-amp-4-6s-esc-with-simonk-firmware-opto.html I've heard great things about the E series propulsion system from DJI, but no personal experience with it. I would think it would work nicely with this setup but make sure you check your prop sizes for the 500 or upgrade to 540 arms.
Hi Dennis, great video, thank you. Excuse my ignorance but could I use your Taranis file for any quadcoptr with Naza and xr8 fitted, for example Dji 450?. Thanks for your vids, please keep them coming.......
Barry Spiers Possibly. I recommend if you install it to open up DJI Naza Assistant and make sure your switches toggle the right modes in the Assistant. I think it should work, but definitely recommend verifying before you try to fly with it.
Hi Dennis. In your video you say "In GPS Attitude mode as is typical for a Naza there's no throttle being applied until I'm at 50%" or something very close. I have tried using offsets , curves and weightings to stop that happening but the Taranis is obviously much more advanced than me! I'm using mine to fly a Phantom 2 with an X8R and apart from the niggle with the throttle in GPS mode it works perfectly. Any advice would be very much appreciated. I'm surprised (and impressed) that you find the time to answer these comments. If there was a school or college that I could attend for a week to understand more fully all aspects of RC I would gladly attend. Maybe one day....:-) Doug
I've just learned to deal with it. Now all DJI aircraft have a RC that starts midway. So midway is hover, above midway is going up, and below midway is going down. It was a tough thing to learn and always difficult to go back and forth between it and Taranis. I'm not sure how you'd pull this off with Taranis. I think if you have a curve with 50% throttle starting at 0 and then scale that up to 100% perhaps it will work. Now how to implement that is not something I know how to do but will look into it and see what I can find out. Unfortunately I don't have any of my NAZA builds available to test at the moment, but I'll let you know if I can figure this out. Thanks for the good words.
Hello, used your file for a F450 with naza lite and x6r receiver and everything works perfectly... no adjustments necessary. Where I and still learning the programming of the Taranis and I primarily fly with the naza lite and V2 controllers, I have 3 of the DT7 transmitters from DJI and your program mirrors them exactly EXCEPT one function which I need to learn how to program the Taranis, and that is the slider on the back which would be used to control the pitch on a gimbal servo which would connect to the H1 port on the FC. As it stands right now the only channel left is channel 5 so would like to connect the side pot to control a gimbal servo pitch. Any help would be appreciated
+hide everfree It's just in case your quadcopter somehow gets out of failsafe and you need to take over. If you come out of failsafe and your throttle is at 20% then you'll lose altitude rapidly. It's just so that you can have good throttle if you need to take over manual control again.
thx for teach me the proper lost signal failsafe setup for Naza , but one more question here , when i bind the rx for the first time should i choose "No Pulse when signal lost" ? please advise ... cause i choose "No Pluse when signal lost" and test the lost signal failsafe by turn off the radio when flying. but it didnt return home but just fall from the sky ( i didnt do the procedure that you teach in the vidoe, cause at that time i didnt found ur video yet...so any idea ?
+hide everfree I'll have to revisit this again because it's been a while since I've set this up on my NAZA. I'm mainly been flying with Pixhawk lately. But one test you can do so you don't run the risk of having your quad fall fro the sky. Try doing this test with your quad on the bench and connected to the assistant. You should have whatever channel you have connected to U port setup so that your slider goes to the "failsafe" section. Hope this helps and good luck with your setup. I'm glad you're spending time on this because failsafe is such an important option to have configured!
Thanks a lot Dennis. I been trying for a week to configure the x8r in the s-bus port, I was going to install cables in traditional when I found your video. Just install you model file and there it was. It works like a kitten now. How did you figure it out?
hi dennis great video just got two question when you was setting up in mixer why did you miss channel 5. and also when you using sbus can you use all 8 channel thanks
Robert Matthews When using SBUS channel 5 will be assigned to X1 which can be used for gain tuning or gimbal pitch control. Since I didn't need those I skipped them. This video will explain how you can get the 8 additional channels with SBUS. Hope it helps: ruclips.net/video/zXsvsYbW09E/видео.html
Hi Dennis, very nice video, i love your channel , but iam curious.. how do you make your TARANIS (i have the same taranis model ) LCD back light into that colour ? the blue is much more bright and light.. do you have changed the black light ?? If you did, can you make a tutorial or something like that??? Appreciate it ! Thanks !
Otávio Brito I wish I had a better answer for you other than "I bought it that way", but that's my answer unfortunately. I wasn't aware that there are different back light colors.
Hello. Thanks for the video. But I am facing a problem at the very end part. I am trying to make the orange LED of Naza stable as per the procedure shown here. But after several trial it's still blinking and not stable. How to solve this problem?? Please help.
Hi Dennis Could you help please. I be set me taranis up as you describe in this video and it works well. That is ioc switching, fail safe, gps mode can all be changed using the switches. However is there a way I can display the mix name on the telemetry screen. As I don't use ioc very often I forget which way it's set and being able to see the mix name appear would be great. I can only get the switch name and position to show up and not the name assigned in mixer settings? I've tried searching for help on this but I can only see using flight modes as a way around this. But I don't have experience of flight mode setup. Any help will be appreciated. JP
That's a good question. I've been wondering the same and will have to look into this. In the meantime you could do something like this: diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/frsky-tarais-spoken-flight-mode-guide Let me know if you come up with anything and I'll see what I can find out. Take care.
Very goods explanations Dennis, as usual...very interesting for me because i'd like to change my Futaba receiver ...i'll put an X8R receiver for my Naza M V2 and my Taranis plus...now i 'll be easier for me to check all Chanals...thank's a lot Philippe
Hi Dennis, great video! Any chance you have the updated file you could post? I'm on a later version firmware and the taranis is saying that it is incompatible...
Jim H Good question. I'm not 100% sure if it will work. Maybe you could load it onto your SD card and see if it will work? If not, I'll see if I can find out and will let you know.
Thanks Dennis I only received the Taranis plus about one hour ago so I will have to do some reading and learn how to program it I will try if I can get my head around it Jim..
Hi Dennis I have set up my quad with the new Taranis Plus using your Bin file and it seems to be working fine although I have only done an indoor test due to weather First time I ever used the Taranis and it's S-Bus and I am most impressed Many thanks for uploading the Bin as it would have taken me days to figure it out on my own regards Jim..
I know my math is rusty! And roger on the nominal amount! I used to build antenna systems. I once built an antenna system for moon bounce stuff and talking off of satellites duplexing 2 meters and 70cm. I had cophased 35 2 meter antennas on a farm sprinkler system. Each antenna was a 17 element cushcraft. 28 feet long if I remember right. You could rotate it around in a circle using a couple of tractors. All of those antennas were pointed up at the moon. We used a coax called hardline. I would get cards from people from all over that could here me. I wasn't the biggest one doing that. There have been several. So much for glory days. So I don't get 2 excited about how my little microwave do ma floppers look on my quadcopter. Of course I have yet to lose one. I suppose if I did I might change my tune. lol. Thanks boss
KandJ Steward Sounds like you were quite the man when it comes to ham radio! I have my license but haven't done anything substantial with it. Thanks for sharing your previous experience. Very cool stuff and way over my head!
I had some big ideas for multirotor on 70 centimeters 433mhz. The thing to overcome is the power to weight ratio, batteries. That's why I'm trying the new multistar 8s. Im not a huge fan of hobbyking but what the heck. I got 45 minutes out of those on a 6s just goofing around. I need some 8s esc but not easy to find. I have some heart issues that have really slowed me down. My last ecg came back bad so more tests. Ugh
hi dennis sorry to trouble you but I need a little help setting up my naza lite with my frsky l9r receiver I used the bin file for my model and started the assistant and great all your settings and offsets were bang on I set the failsafe on the receiver and when the naza is all powered on and bound to the rx all I get on the naza led is rapid red led flashing any ideas where I'm going wrong and also when I start the props in manual mode I get full range of throttle but then I move into gps mode I have little or no throttle please help cheers pete
+Peter Webster Pete that's some strange behavior. I can't really come up with what's going on. It sounds like it's flashing failsafe when powering up so perhaps that is set incorrectly in one of your mode switches. Sorry, wish I could be of more help. Let us know what you uncover.
Hai dennis.. Maybe this video is years back.. But i need a favor how to deal with throtle setup... Mine is not really working well.. Since the default is using middle thorttl
Thanks again for another great vid, Dennis. I immediately noticed at 3:40 that you haven't updated your Taranis to OpenTx 2.0. I was just wondering why. Do you prefer the pre-update firmware? Thanks again!
Appalling68 No problem. You're right, I haven't upgraded yet. I've been a bit hesitant to go to 2.0 but plan on doing so before the end of the year. I've wanted to do it, but didn't want to get caught up with any issues to where I wouldn't be able to fly :) I need to get over that and just do it! Thanks.
Another fantastic video. You have helped me tremendously. One question how to I copy this file over to taranis. I removed so card and put it in my pc. I unzipped and copied the file to the models directory on the so card. I then put it back in the taranis. The model is not showing up on the taranis. What have I done wrong? Thanks
MMX2 Good timing on this question. I just posted a video that shows how to do this. Watch near the end where you select an empty slot and long-press the enter key. From there you can select "Restore Model" and choose one from the SD card. Hope this helps.
Nice video. I am wondering if you are experiencing the same thing I am when it comes to your failsafe override setup. If I am in gps mode and activate the failsafe, after turning off the failsafe override, I cannot regain control of the craft until I either switch to atti or manual flight modes. Is this your experience? I think it may be something within the NAZA, it appears to function properly in the assistance software but in real life it does not perform as one would believe it should. Please inform if your craft is performing in a similar way and if so, what is your take on it? Also, if your craft acted this way have you figured out how to jump in and out of failsafe while all the time being in gps flight mode. BTW, I am also using the Taranis X9D and the NAZA V2 with the X8R in my setup.
At 5 minutes into the video, I think we may have skipped a step in setting up the failsafe for when the rx is not receiving a signal from the tx, or possibly there is just another way to skin a cat. I believe you need to go to the Taranis model menu, scroll down to Failsafe, select "Custom" and the "Set", Scroll to your throttle, probably at top if radio is TAER, Move the throttle to just over half way (hover), you should see the slider move on the radio menu screen. Hit enter and then press the f/s button on the rx, then the green light on the rx should flash twice. Turn off the tx and check that in the assistant the control mode switch slider moves to the failsafe and the throttle sets itself at just over 50%, if NAZA needs this info or not it is there to use. Now choose your enhanced failsafe mode in the Assistant. This may or may not be necessary as NAZA may go into its own failsafe from loss of signal in which this failsafe setup is not really needed or used, but could be nice on other models that say maybe do not have an RTL feature and you say just want to add a touch of rudder to make your craft(airplane maybe) do slow circles toward earth. Also, I have read that pressing the F/S button on the rx isn't necessary if you're using the X8R and it doesn't hurt anything if you do include this step. Looks like that step is used in older receivers.
teamscreem Great info. I believe you're right. The TX level failsafe is unnecessary for the NAZA, but perhaps there are other FCs that could benefit from your failsafe suggestion. Hadn't really thought about that before. This is good stuff that hopefully others can benefit from. I also wasn't aware that it's not necessary to press the failsafe button on the X8R. I thought I read in the manual that it is necessary based on the info here: www.frsky-rc.com/download/down.php?id=102 Thanks for the detailed info.
Dennis Baldwin I believe if the radio has failsafe setting capability it overrides any manual setting, Great radio with 3 different programmable failsafe modes. From my recent quick testing, if Taranis failsafe is set to "Hold" mode (default), the receiver remains at the last transmission received, in" Custom" FS setting, you can "Set" in the radio the commands you want to use on loss of signal. The "Receiver" mode setting must be enabled to allow the FS to use the @receiver level setting that you explained in the video. There is also a "Pulse" setting I did not test to see results. I may have noticed this as I am just stepping into the FrSky arena and am setting up a Taranis Plus with OpenTX Companion 2.0.12 and not sure if there are differences in this area on older versions. Looking forward to your Pixhawk review and discussions, thanks for the reply and the great work.
thank you so much for the help! one problem. once i arm the motors they turn off in 4 seconds if i leave the throttle all the way down in all modes except manual mode. In manual mode it will stay running. Any ideas? edit: I am thinking this is a dji safety feature to shut the motors off? leaving the stick at the lowest position?
Hi Dennis, I was wondering if you know anybody selling the antenna holder. I don't have a 3D printer. I also wanted to ask if you know about a square shape antenna shield for the Pixhawk GPS antenna. I have the feeling my 1.3 Ghz video may walk over the GPS antenna. I saw one for the NAZA, it seems like a good idea for a 3D print. Thanks
Juan Sarti I normally recommend going to www.makexyz.com and see if you can find someone near you that will print it. Regarding the antenna shield I designed a mast a while back: www.thingiverse.com/thing:459293 Not sure if it's what you're looking for but wanted to mention it. Good luck with your build and please keep us posted! Take care.
TheTonstar1 If you have a switched associated with your retracts then just put that switch in whatever position brings the retracts down. Then when you program failsafe at the receiver it will record that switch position.
Thanks for the video! My problem is that I cannot get my 3-switch to work with the U port. The slider just wont move!! I have a Taranis and a Naza M Lite.What am I doing wrong?Thanks in advance!Peter J
Make sure you have the proper channel configured so that it's matched up with the U port. If you are using SBUS (one cable from RX to NAZA) I think it was CH7 that corresponded with the U port. But if that doesn't work try channel 5-8 and see which one it is. If your'e using one cable per channel just make sure whatever channel is plugged into the U port is mapped to a switch on your Taranis. Good luck and let us know how it goes.
dennis..i noticed that with your eepe file that when i enable course or homelock it is kicking in failsafe in the assistant when im in gps mode..any ideas
biomedchad Must be something with the offsets/weights on that channel. See if you can go in and modify to get it where you want it. Not sure why it didn't come through exactly as expected. I'll have to see what I can find out.
Hey brother really awesome stuff. I apologize in advance if this is obvious or has been stated somewhere, but does that QAV500 have 540mm arms? I'm assuming that the 13in propellers wouldn't fit unless it did? Is that correct?
ChaseBrumfield Great observation. The 540mm support up to 12" props and to get 13" on it you have to move the two front posts back a bit so there's clearance for the prop to spin. Hope that helps.
Cool. Just FYI since it seems like you're looking for longer flight times… some real interesting, actually tested data found here: diydrones.com/group/arducopterusergroup/forum/topics/tiger-motors-propellers-combinations-for-an-heavy-lift-octocopter?commentId=705844%3AComment%3A1390384&groupId=705844%3AGroup%3A394475 That 13in prop 360kv motor combo will get you some long flight times but it also looks like hover will be at at least 62% throttle… If i'm reading the spreadsheet right. Just food for thought. I'm super interested to see how it goes for you.
Hi Dennis great video just purchased qav540 With tiger cf 13 inch props m3508 motors Tattu 6c 8000 battery with naza flight controller can you recommend gains setting Thanks Robert
rjshather That sounds like an awesome setup. I love this rig and it flies amazing with the NAZA. Unfortunately I've torn down the NAZA and don't have access to the gain settings at the moment. I'd recommend starting with the defaults and working your way up. Let me see if I can get my NAZA wired up this week and grab the gains. I can't promise I'll be able to do it, but if I remember and have time then I will. Take care and congrats on your new rig.
allenvince1 Great suggestion. I haven't done one of those, but hopefully in the meantime this can help: ruclips.net/video/feyiB87V0ag/видео.html I'll see if I can get a Taranis video uploaded soon. Thanks.
I tried downloading the model file several times and when I extract all I just end up with a vlc file not a bin fie vlc is a player that plays video files, not sure what I'm doing wrong. Not that computer literate so not sure how to proceed. I am brand new to flying and I'm building a qav500 with naza and using a taranis radio but since I'm brand new to ALL OF IT I'm having a dickens of a time and getting very frustrated, sure could use a tutor. Wish you lived in Florida
umatillagarry I haven't seen this happen before, but maybe try a different unzip program. If that doesn't work I can upload the bin file without zipping it and hopefully you can get it to work. I've had several guys that have downloaded the file, unzipped, and loaded onto their Taranis.
Dennis Baldwin Dennis I tried again with a different program and now have a bin file qav500naza that is only 231 bytes in size ?? Would the bin file be that small?. I don't want to mess up my taranis by sending something wrong to it. Sure wish i knew what I am doing. How do I learn how to do this stuff on my own? Is there some sort of training school or place I can go to to learn about this RC stuff. So far I have just learned on forums etc.
Dennis Baldwin Dennis SUCCESS on unzipping and loading the bin file into my taranis BUT my question now is : this file is running your qav500 with the 13 inch beechwood props but my qav500 will have 10 inch graupner props so what will I have to do to modify this file to run my qav500 ?? Thanks
Nice video Dennis, can't wait to see the Pixhawk in that beast! Nice find for the X8R mast, I noticed that the "paddles" are placed with 90 degrees at the base, as well as 90 degrees of rotation, beautiful! Could you tell me, though, what is that beast of a battery you're using? It looks like it could stay aloft for a week with that thing!
willdoryder I'm really digging this antenna mast. Yes I forgot to point out the 90 degrees of rotation. That's a very good observation. This is the battery I'm currently flying with: www.getfpv.com/tattu-6200mah-6s-35c-lipo-battery.html I'm going to share some flight time results in an upcoming video. Take care.
Dennis Baldwin Many thanks for the reply Dennis, I'll be following along intently. I'm still on the fence about the Pixhawk, I have yet to understand what it offers beyond the APM platform at the moment...
Sorry but I don't have that build anymore. I've been using Raspberry PI so it probably won't help you out much. I do plan on covering another Pixhawk build soon and I'll be sure to post my param file. Good luck with your build and let us know how it goes.
Dennis.i have over 3 grand worth of quad equipment and fpv 8 can't use. We just had a baby. Please get the word out.naza gps.dji.gopro 3 silver. Fat shark goggles . scorpion motors. Etc.....
JerseyFlyer Why don't you post it over in the forums at www.garagepilots.com and I'll share it with some people I know that may be interested: garagepilots.com/forum/categories/for-sale-trade-and-deals/listForCategory If you have any pics that would help too. Good luck and congrats on the baby!
very excited for this series! well done! Check out my pix4d model I did this morning (Aerial model of an observatory using pix4d and quadcopter (higher quality upload)) It was pretty windy and I was only using a gopro and only had like 8 minutes of flight time, but its really exciting seeing it come together! Thank you for showing me the software! I plan on trying to do some agisoft work too soon
Great video Dennis. Well done. You're a braver man than me hovering a QAV500 with 13" props in your garage.
Tim Nilson Ha! I hear you. When I fired it up the first time it sounded like a lawnmower in the garage. Flies really well though. I'm looking forward to doing some flight duration tests soon.
Thanks Dennis.. I can't imagine how much time I'd have to spend if not for these tutorials.. Thanks again.
Bharath Raj No problem. Appreciate you watching.
Thanks again for the videos. I have used these videos a number of times to program my Taranis over the last couple of years. They are as handy today as when you first published them.
You're welcome and thanks for the good words. Appreciate it.
QAV500 looks like a very well built frame and ought to go well with the Pixhawk.
Will be watching!
***** It really is a great frame. I've enjoyed flying with my QAV400 over the past year. The QAV500 is considerably larger and can carry quite a bit more payload....especially with 13" props :) I hope all is well.
Great video as always Dennis. The battery on that QAV 500 looked like a brick on top of it. Yet still very stable. Can't wait to see a battery that is half that size and double the power.
etab83 You and me both. The battery life/weight is really the biggest challenge when it come to our hobby....and the automotive world as well :) Just ask Elon Musk of Tesla! Thanks for the comment and hope all is well.
Your videos and guides are brilliant. I've pretty much exclusively used your videos to set up the Naza, Taranis and X8R on my Disco. Thank you.
Thanks for the good words. I really appreciate the feedback.
Awesome setup! Can't wait to see the Pixhawk configuration.
Binesh Maharjan Thanks. Will definitely keep you posted.
Nice video , can't wait to see the Pixhawk in that beast! Dennis Baldwin
Wonny RC Hobbies Thank you. I'm looking forward to getting the Pixhawk up and running.Will keep you posted.
Very nice job Dennis :)
Great gift for sharing your settings of your tanaris :)
Happy new week
ANOTHER BLACKMENNEWSTYLE PRODUCTION No problem. I hope it helps a few people. Have a great week yourself.
Damn man. Getfpv hooked you up with some good products. The best out there right now. Man I wish I had a qav 500 with naza v2 , tmotors . Tmotor props and a tattu battery.
Nelson inastrilla It is a really nice setup. I'm going to be putting Pixhawk in it soon and will share my experience. Looking forward to ripping the NAZA out :)
hey dennis what a great service to make the profile available for download, although i am not a naza user. really looking forward to your experiences with pixhawk! great collaboration between tim and you!!
sirlanzi Thanks so much. I appreciate you watching and following along. Take care.
Thank you very much for great taranis naza settings. I just upload your file into my taranis and it works just perfecly with my naza V2.
Copied your mixes into my model mix, guess what? Perfect! Nice job, man.
John Bailey Very glad to hear that.
Cool, downloaded template and will try soon. Have Taranis and Rx installed in Phantom 2 Vision +. One connection. Sbus. Left DJI receiver. Thanks for all the hard work.
John Bailey Glad to hear it. Hope everything works out alright.
Thanks Dennis, nice frame and really liked the 90 degree antenna gizmo. Had a friend in, my club who just had to mention mine needed to be, at 90 degrees. Wait til he sees that! Im the only electric guy and multirotor guy there
KandJ Steward Too funny. One thing I was wondering is since the actual wires are part of the antenna is if the 90 degree split should happen right as they come out of the receiver vs it happening right at the PCB part of the antenna. I'll have to look into this some more. Good luck showing the guys at your club who's boss :)
on the turnigy 9x with default firmware you can easily setup a forced failsafe by going into throttle hold and turning it to active. that will make it so the left back switch on the transmitter will put the naza into failsafe mode regardless of the three position switch :)
( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) Zevi Rubin Ah cool! Very good tip. I never knew about this when I used to fly with my T9X but if I do bring it back to life I'll definitely give this a try. Thanks for the tip.
more info on quad setup? what motors? what batt? how long do you think it will fly?
JohnVH541 Good question. Here you go:
380kV Tiger Motors: www.getfpv.com/tiger-motor-mt-4008-18-380kv.html
13x5 Beechwood props: www.getfpv.com/tiger-motor-beech-wood-propeller-13x5.html
6200mAh battery: www.getfpv.com/tattu-6200mah-6s-35c-lipo-battery.html
I'll be share my flight time test results soon. I also have this 8000mAh battery I'll be testing as well:
www.getfpv.com/lumenier-8000mah-6s-25c-lipo-battery.html
I hope with the 8000mAh battery to get 30 minutes or more. We will see and I'll definitely let you know.
Hi Dennis, Great vid!!! Is it possible to configure as you have done but also be able to adjust the pitch on a camera gimbal? I have a gimbal controller and I want to be able to adjust the pitch on the camera. I have done it using the conventional 8 channel with the X8R but not sure how to do it using the SBUS. Using SBUS does not allow me to use the spare channel for controlling pitch. Any ideas?
Great videos, Dennis. One thing I am confused about is the throttle channel sitting at zero when failsafe is engaged- is it normal for the throttle channel to still appear to be controlled by my radio in the NAZA assistant screen after FS has been engaged manually, as opposed to what happens when I turn my radio off, where the throttle channel pre-set is shown jumping to the 60% level that I pre-set in the failsafe custom settings in Taranis? Hope that's clear!
What? Good question and yes I think that's normal. The quick and dirty for me is to make sure that I see the FS led flashing quickly. Then I know that NAZA will take care of the rest. Just to be safe I keep throttle near 50% while in failsafe just in case anything happens. Never had an issue, but it's my failsafe for failsafe!
Dear Dennis, By any chance, do you have an updated copy of your FrSky setup? My students have constructed a F550 drone with Naza V2, using the S-Bus. Our Taranis x9d plus is version 2.2.4. When we tried installing your Taranis setup, we get an “Incompatible” message. From looking at ways to make it work, it appears the later OpenTX software isn’t able to read older models. My students are close to maidening their drone, but we’d like to compare it to someone else’s setup. Thank you for your videos...they’ve been a huge help to my students and I.
I've seen that antenna stand, but I have a carbon fiber frame and I'm concerned that the signal will be blocked by it if the receiver antennas are on top.
Do you think that will be the case, and would it be optimum to do basically the same thing with the antennas sticking DOWN, or OUT? (perpendicular to the ground, or parallel at 90deg?)
Hugh Hemington Good question. To be honest I'm not sure. But it's definitely worth a test. Carbo has a downward facing version of the mast as well. You can see it in the photos on this page:
www.thingiverse.com/thing:258146
Please let us know what you find out! Thanks.
Dennis,
Since the pcb antenna is the, actual antenna as long as its split there it, will work. The rest of the wire is actually a sheilded coax and the center lead doesnt radiate any RF until it gets to that pcb. Actually as long as those 2 antenna are more than a wavelength apart they shouldn't interfere with each other anyway. At 2.4 gig what is, a wavelength? 25cm maybe less. Ive never had an issue with it anyways. I did pickup frskys big bad long range reciever and will be giving it a go here shortly. By the way Dennis your the boss! Thanks buddy, Kevin
KandJ Steward Great thoughts, Kevin. Thanks for sharing. I figured there would be some radiation prior to the PCB, but if there is it's nominal. I believe a 2.4GHz wavelength is about 12 cm. Anyway, glad to hear about your long range receiver. Keep me posted on how it goes!
Hey Dennis, is that the 6200 mah on that quad?, looks so huge and heavy. Also, gonna be building one myself. What ESC's are you running exactly with those 3508-29 motor. I was thinking about going with a TATTU 10,000 battery and the DJI E800 propulsion system. What you think?, your advice would really help in my confirmation to go ahead with the purchase. Love the QAV 500.. Thanks again.....
***** Yes that's the 6200mAh batt on the quad. These are the ESCs I'm running:
www.getfpv.com/lumenier-30-amp-4-6s-esc-with-simonk-firmware-opto.html
I've heard great things about the E series propulsion system from DJI, but no personal experience with it. I would think it would work nicely with this setup but make sure you check your prop sizes for the 500 or upgrade to 540 arms.
Hi Dennis, great video, thank you. Excuse my ignorance but could I use your Taranis file for any quadcoptr with Naza and xr8 fitted, for example Dji 450?.
Thanks for your vids, please keep them coming.......
Barry Spiers Possibly. I recommend if you install it to open up DJI Naza Assistant and make sure your switches toggle the right modes in the Assistant. I think it should work, but definitely recommend verifying before you try to fly with it.
Hi Dennis. In your video you say "In GPS Attitude mode as is typical for a Naza there's no throttle being applied until I'm at 50%" or something very close. I have tried using offsets , curves and weightings to stop that happening but the Taranis is obviously much more advanced than me!
I'm using mine to fly a Phantom 2 with an X8R and apart from the niggle with the throttle in GPS mode it works perfectly.
Any advice would be very much appreciated. I'm surprised (and impressed) that you find the time to answer these comments. If there was a school or college that I could attend for a week to understand more fully all aspects of RC I would gladly attend. Maybe one day....:-)
Doug
I've just learned to deal with it. Now all DJI aircraft have a RC that starts midway. So midway is hover, above midway is going up, and below midway is going down. It was a tough thing to learn and always difficult to go back and forth between it and Taranis.
I'm not sure how you'd pull this off with Taranis. I think if you have a curve with 50% throttle starting at 0 and then scale that up to 100% perhaps it will work. Now how to implement that is not something I know how to do but will look into it and see what I can find out. Unfortunately I don't have any of my NAZA builds available to test at the moment, but I'll let you know if I can figure this out. Thanks for the good words.
Thank you for the model file.
Hello, used your file for a F450 with naza lite and x6r receiver and everything works perfectly...
no adjustments necessary. Where I and still learning the programming of the Taranis and I primarily
fly with the naza lite and V2 controllers, I have 3 of the DT7 transmitters from DJI and your program
mirrors them exactly EXCEPT one function which I need to learn how to program the Taranis, and that
is the slider on the back which would be used to control the pitch on a gimbal servo which would
connect to the H1 port on the FC. As it stands right now the only channel left is channel 5 so would like
to connect the side pot to control a gimbal servo pitch. Any help would be appreciated
also i am not very sure what is the mean of push the thorttle of around 55% then click the failsafe ? what is that for ? please advise. thx
+hide everfree It's just in case your quadcopter somehow gets out of failsafe and you need to take over. If you come out of failsafe and your throttle is at 20% then you'll lose altitude rapidly. It's just so that you can have good throttle if you need to take over manual control again.
thx for teach me the proper lost signal failsafe setup for Naza , but one more question here , when i bind the rx for the first time should i choose "No Pulse when signal lost" ? please advise ... cause i choose "No Pluse when signal lost" and test the lost signal failsafe by turn off the radio when flying. but it didnt return home but just fall from the sky ( i didnt do the procedure that you teach in the vidoe, cause at that time i didnt found ur video yet...so any idea ?
+hide everfree I'll have to revisit this again because it's been a while since I've set this up on my NAZA. I'm mainly been flying with Pixhawk lately. But one test you can do so you don't run the risk of having your quad fall fro the sky. Try doing this test with your quad on the bench and connected to the assistant. You should have whatever channel you have connected to U port setup so that your slider goes to the "failsafe" section. Hope this helps and good luck with your setup. I'm glad you're spending time on this because failsafe is such an important option to have configured!
Thanks a lot Dennis. I been trying for a week to configure the x8r in the s-bus port, I was going to install cables in traditional when I found your video. Just install you model file and there it was. It works like a kitten now. How did you figure it out?
Angel L Diaz Morales So glad to hear this helped. I figured it out with a lot of trial and error :) Take care.
hi dennis great video just got two question when you was setting up in mixer why did you miss channel 5. and also when you using sbus can you use all 8 channel thanks
Robert Matthews When using SBUS channel 5 will be assigned to X1 which can be used for gain tuning or gimbal pitch control. Since I didn't need those I skipped them. This video will explain how you can get the 8 additional channels with SBUS. Hope it helps:
ruclips.net/video/zXsvsYbW09E/видео.html
Hi Dennis, very nice video, i love your channel , but iam curious.. how do you make your TARANIS (i have the same taranis model ) LCD back light into that colour ? the blue is much more bright and light.. do you have changed the black light ?? If you did, can you make a tutorial or something like that??? Appreciate it ! Thanks !
Otávio Brito I wish I had a better answer for you other than "I bought it that way", but that's my answer unfortunately. I wasn't aware that there are different back light colors.
Hello. Thanks for the video. But I am facing a problem at the very end part. I am trying to make the orange LED of Naza stable as per the procedure shown here. But after several trial it's still blinking and not stable. How to solve this problem?? Please help.
Hi Dennis
Could you help please. I be set me taranis up as you describe in this video and it works well. That is ioc switching, fail safe, gps mode can all be changed using the switches. However is there a way I can display the mix name on the telemetry screen. As I don't use ioc very often I forget which way it's set and being able to see the mix name appear would be great. I can only get the switch name and position to show up and not the name assigned in mixer settings? I've tried searching for help on this but I can only see using flight modes as a way around this. But I don't have experience of flight mode setup.
Any help will be appreciated.
JP
That's a good question. I've been wondering the same and will have to look into this. In the meantime you could do something like this: diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/frsky-tarais-spoken-flight-mode-guide Let me know if you come up with anything and I'll see what I can find out. Take care.
Thank you very much for all the help.
No problem. Thanks for watching.
Very goods explanations Dennis, as usual...very interesting for me because i'd like to change my Futaba receiver ...i'll put an X8R receiver for my Naza M V2 and my Taranis plus...now i 'll be easier for me to check all Chanals...thank's a lot
Philippe
Phillippe, that sounds like a good idea. Good luck with your setup.
Hi Dennis, great video! Any chance you have the updated file you could post? I'm on a later version firmware and the taranis is saying that it is incompatible...
Hello Dennis
Great video and most informative
Can you tell me will your Bin file work on the Taranis Plus
Regards Jim..
Jim H Good question. I'm not 100% sure if it will work. Maybe you could load it onto your SD card and see if it will work? If not, I'll see if I can find out and will let you know.
Thanks Dennis I only received the Taranis plus about one hour ago so I will have to do some reading and learn how to program it I will try if I can get my head around it
Jim..
Hi Dennis I have set up my quad with the new Taranis Plus using your Bin file and it seems to be working fine although I have only done an indoor test due to weather
First time I ever used the Taranis and it's S-Bus and I am most impressed
Many thanks for uploading the Bin as it would have taken me days to figure it out on my own
regards Jim..
I know my math is rusty! And roger on the nominal amount! I used to build antenna systems. I once built an antenna system for moon bounce stuff and talking off of satellites duplexing 2 meters and 70cm. I had cophased 35 2 meter antennas on a farm sprinkler system. Each antenna was a 17 element cushcraft. 28 feet long if I remember right. You could rotate it around in a circle using a couple of tractors. All of those antennas were pointed up at the moon. We used a coax called hardline. I would get cards from people from all over that could here me. I wasn't the biggest one doing that. There have been several. So much for glory days. So I don't get 2 excited about how my little microwave do ma floppers look on my quadcopter. Of course I have yet to lose one. I suppose if I did I might change my tune. lol. Thanks boss
KandJ Steward Sounds like you were quite the man when it comes to ham radio! I have my license but haven't done anything substantial with it. Thanks for sharing your previous experience. Very cool stuff and way over my head!
I had some big ideas for multirotor on 70 centimeters 433mhz. The thing to overcome is the power to weight ratio, batteries. That's why I'm trying the new multistar 8s. Im not a huge fan of hobbyking but what the heck. I got 45 minutes out of those on a 6s just goofing around. I need some 8s esc but not easy to find. I have some heart issues that have really slowed me down. My last ecg came back bad so more tests. Ugh
Thank you for all of these videos. Very helpful. Are there benefits to pixhawk?
hi dennis sorry to trouble you but I need a little help setting up my naza lite with my frsky l9r receiver I used the bin file for my model and started the assistant and great all your settings and offsets were bang on I set the failsafe on the receiver and when the naza is all powered on and bound to the rx all I get on the naza led is rapid red led flashing any ideas where I'm going wrong and also when I start the props in manual mode I get full range of throttle but then I move into gps mode I have little or no throttle please help cheers pete
+Peter Webster Pete that's some strange behavior. I can't really come up with what's going on. It sounds like it's flashing failsafe when powering up so perhaps that is set incorrectly in one of your mode switches. Sorry, wish I could be of more help. Let us know what you uncover.
Hai dennis.. Maybe this video is years back.. But i need a favor how to deal with throtle setup... Mine is not really working well.. Since the default is using middle thorttl
Thanks again for another great vid, Dennis. I immediately noticed at 3:40 that you haven't updated your Taranis to OpenTx 2.0. I was just wondering why. Do you prefer the pre-update firmware? Thanks again!
Appalling68 No problem. You're right, I haven't upgraded yet. I've been a bit hesitant to go to 2.0 but plan on doing so before the end of the year. I've wanted to do it, but didn't want to get caught up with any issues to where I wouldn't be able to fly :) I need to get over that and just do it! Thanks.
Also, what kind of flight times I could expect with a 10,000 MaH battery?, and what flight times are you getting with your set-up. Thanks......
***** I'm going to do a 8000mAh battery test soon and will let you know. I get a 17 minute hover with the 6200mAh batt.
Another fantastic video. You have helped me tremendously.
One question how to I copy this file over to taranis. I removed so card and put it in my pc. I unzipped and copied the file to the models directory on the so card. I then put it back in the taranis.
The model is not showing up on the taranis. What have I done wrong?
Thanks
MMX2 Good timing on this question. I just posted a video that shows how to do this. Watch near the end where you select an empty slot and long-press the enter key. From there you can select "Restore Model" and choose one from the SD card. Hope this helps.
Nice video. I am wondering if you are experiencing the same thing I am when it comes to your failsafe override setup. If I am in gps mode and activate the failsafe, after turning off the failsafe override, I cannot regain control of the craft until I either switch to atti or manual flight modes. Is this your experience? I think it may be something within the NAZA, it appears to function properly in the assistance software but in real life it does not perform as one would believe it should. Please inform if your craft is performing in a similar way and if so, what is your take on it? Also, if your craft acted this way have you figured out how to jump in and out of failsafe while all the time being in gps flight mode. BTW, I am also using the Taranis X9D and the NAZA V2 with the X8R in my setup.
At 5 minutes into the video, I think we may have skipped a step in setting up the failsafe for when the rx is not receiving a signal from the tx, or possibly there is just another way to skin a cat. I believe you need to go to the Taranis model menu, scroll down to Failsafe, select "Custom" and the "Set", Scroll to your throttle, probably at top if radio is TAER, Move the throttle to just over half way (hover), you should see the slider move on the radio menu screen. Hit enter and then press the f/s button on the rx, then the green light on the rx should flash twice. Turn off the tx and check that in the assistant the control mode switch slider moves to the failsafe and the throttle sets itself at just over 50%, if NAZA needs this info or not it is there to use. Now choose your enhanced failsafe mode in the Assistant. This may or may not be necessary as NAZA may go into its own failsafe from loss of signal in which this failsafe setup is not really needed or used, but could be nice on other models that say maybe do not have an RTL feature and you say just want to add a touch of rudder to make your craft(airplane maybe) do slow circles toward earth. Also, I have read that pressing the F/S button on the rx isn't necessary if you're using the X8R and it doesn't hurt anything if you do include this step. Looks like that step is used in older receivers.
teamscreem Great info. I believe you're right. The TX level failsafe is unnecessary for the NAZA, but perhaps there are other FCs that could benefit from your failsafe suggestion. Hadn't really thought about that before. This is good stuff that hopefully others can benefit from. I also wasn't aware that it's not necessary to press the failsafe button on the X8R. I thought I read in the manual that it is necessary based on the info here:
www.frsky-rc.com/download/down.php?id=102
Thanks for the detailed info.
Dennis Baldwin I believe if the radio has failsafe setting capability it overrides any manual setting, Great radio with 3 different programmable failsafe modes. From my recent quick testing, if Taranis failsafe is set to "Hold" mode (default), the receiver remains at the last transmission received, in" Custom" FS setting, you can "Set" in the radio the commands you want to use on loss of signal. The "Receiver" mode setting must be enabled to allow the FS to use the @receiver level setting that you explained in the video. There is also a "Pulse" setting I did not test to see results. I may have noticed this as I am just stepping into the FrSky arena and am setting up a Taranis Plus with OpenTX Companion 2.0.12 and not sure if there are differences in this area on older versions. Looking forward to your Pixhawk review and discussions, thanks for the reply and the great work.
thank you so much for the help! one problem. once i arm the motors they turn off in 4 seconds if i leave the throttle all the way down in all modes except manual mode. In manual mode it will stay running. Any ideas?
edit: I am thinking this is a dji safety feature to shut the motors off? leaving the stick at the lowest position?
Mikes GOPRO videos Yes that is a safety feature if you leave the throttle down. Except as you mention with manual mode.
Hi Dennis, I was wondering if you know anybody selling the antenna holder. I don't have a 3D printer. I also wanted to ask if you know about a square shape antenna shield for the Pixhawk GPS antenna. I have the feeling my 1.3 Ghz video may walk over the GPS antenna. I saw one for the NAZA, it seems like a good idea for a 3D print. Thanks
Juan Sarti I normally recommend going to www.makexyz.com and see if you can find someone near you that will print it. Regarding the antenna shield I designed a mast a while back:
www.thingiverse.com/thing:459293
Not sure if it's what you're looking for but wanted to mention it. Good luck with your build and please keep us posted! Take care.
Got this failsafe working on hexacopter how can I get it to bring reatracts down as well???
TheTonstar1 If you have a switched associated with your retracts then just put that switch in whatever position brings the retracts down. Then when you program failsafe at the receiver it will record that switch position.
Dennis Baldwin thanks will do and let you know take mate
Thanks for the video! My problem is that I cannot get my 3-switch to work with the U port. The slider just wont move!! I have a Taranis and a Naza M Lite.What am I doing wrong?Thanks in advance!Peter J
Make sure you have the proper channel configured so that it's matched up with the U port. If you are using SBUS (one cable from RX to NAZA) I think it was CH7 that corresponded with the U port. But if that doesn't work try channel 5-8 and see which one it is. If your'e using one cable per channel just make sure whatever channel is plugged into the U port is mapped to a switch on your Taranis. Good luck and let us know how it goes.
dennis..i noticed that with your eepe file that when i enable course or homelock it is kicking in failsafe in the assistant when im in gps mode..any ideas
biomedchad Must be something with the offsets/weights on that channel. See if you can go in and modify to get it where you want it. Not sure why it didn't come through exactly as expected. I'll have to see what I can find out.
Great video! I'll report back when my Taranis gets to me from HK
flecjl Thanks. Let me know how it goes.
Worked great! Thank you for the awesome setup, worked out well.
Hey brother really awesome stuff. I apologize in advance if this is obvious or has been stated somewhere, but does that QAV500 have 540mm arms? I'm assuming that the 13in propellers wouldn't fit unless it did? Is that correct?
ChaseBrumfield Great observation. The 540mm support up to 12" props and to get 13" on it you have to move the two front posts back a bit so there's clearance for the prop to spin. Hope that helps.
Cool. Just FYI since it seems like you're looking for longer flight times… some real interesting, actually tested data found here:
diydrones.com/group/arducopterusergroup/forum/topics/tiger-motors-propellers-combinations-for-an-heavy-lift-octocopter?commentId=705844%3AComment%3A1390384&groupId=705844%3AGroup%3A394475
That 13in prop 360kv motor combo will get you some long flight times but it also looks like hover will be at at least 62% throttle… If i'm reading the spreadsheet right. Just food for thought. I'm super interested to see how it goes for you.
Hi Dennis great video just purchased qav540
With tiger cf 13 inch props m3508 motors
Tattu 6c 8000 battery with naza flight controller can you recommend gains setting
Thanks Robert
rjshather That sounds like an awesome setup. I love this rig and it flies amazing with the NAZA. Unfortunately I've torn down the NAZA and don't have access to the gain settings at the moment. I'd recommend starting with the defaults and working your way up. Let me see if I can get my NAZA wired up this week and grab the gains. I can't promise I'll be able to do it, but if I remember and have time then I will. Take care and congrats on your new rig.
Hi Dennis,
when you have time, could you do a video about programming six flight plus rtl on a taranis, please
sirlanzi Yes. I'll most definitely do that in the near future. Thanks for the suggestion.
Dennis Baldwin sweet
hi Dennis,how about GAIN settings via TX?TARANIS tx also.
allenvince1 Great suggestion. I haven't done one of those, but hopefully in the meantime this can help:
ruclips.net/video/feyiB87V0ag/видео.html
I'll see if I can get a Taranis video uploaded soon. Thanks.
I tried downloading the model file several times and when I extract all I just end up with a vlc file not a bin fie vlc is a player that plays video files, not sure what I'm doing wrong. Not that computer literate so not sure how to proceed. I am brand new to flying and I'm building a qav500 with naza and using a taranis radio but since I'm brand new to ALL OF IT I'm having a dickens of a time and getting very frustrated, sure could use a tutor. Wish you lived in Florida
umatillagarry I haven't seen this happen before, but maybe try a different unzip program. If that doesn't work I can upload the bin file without zipping it and hopefully you can get it to work. I've had several guys that have downloaded the file, unzipped, and loaded onto their Taranis.
Dennis Baldwin
Dennis I tried again with a different program and now have a bin file qav500naza that is only 231 bytes in size ?? Would the bin file be that small?. I don't want to mess up my taranis by sending something wrong to it. Sure wish i knew what I am doing. How do I learn how to do this stuff on my own? Is there some sort of training school or place I can go to to learn about this RC stuff. So far I have just learned on forums etc.
Dennis Baldwin
Also is there a place to buy the antenna holder since I don't have access to a 3d printer. Thanks so much for your help to this newbie
Dennis Baldwin Dennis SUCCESS on unzipping and loading the bin file into my taranis BUT my question now is : this file is running your qav500 with the 13 inch beechwood props but my qav500 will have 10 inch graupner props so what will I have to do to modify this file to run my qav500 ?? Thanks
I am using Sbus and apparently setting the IOC modes aren't working using simply Sbus.
Can not find the link for the antenna mast. can you please repeat it again. Thanks.
Here you go: www.thingiverse.com/thing:258146
Nice video Dennis, can't wait to see the Pixhawk in that beast! Nice find for the X8R mast, I noticed that the "paddles" are placed with 90 degrees at the base, as well as 90 degrees of rotation, beautiful! Could you tell me, though, what is that beast of a battery you're using? It looks like it could stay aloft for a week with that thing!
willdoryder I'm really digging this antenna mast. Yes I forgot to point out the 90 degrees of rotation. That's a very good observation. This is the battery I'm currently flying with:
www.getfpv.com/tattu-6200mah-6s-35c-lipo-battery.html
I'm going to share some flight time results in an upcoming video. Take care.
Dennis Baldwin Many thanks for the reply Dennis, I'll be following along intently. I'm still on the fence about the Pixhawk, I have yet to understand what it offers beyond the APM platform at the moment...
I have been through this 4 times now and still get the failsafe not set when I turn the radio back on HELP !
Thanks Dennis.
Barry Spiers No problem at all. Thanks for watching.
What happen in manual mode? There is no stabilization in that mode?
There is no auto-level in that mode. So if you're rolling to the right and let off the sticks it won't come back to level and will keep flying right.
Dennis Baldwin thank you
how long can you fly? looks a bit heavy
+Amina Chee 17 minutes with a 6200mAh battery. I think about 22 minutes with a 8000mAh battery.
hi could it be possible to make a file for me on a APM 2,8? i appreciate your help in advance thanks for the good made videos
Sorry but I don't have that build anymore. I've been using Raspberry PI so it probably won't help you out much. I do plan on covering another Pixhawk build soon and I'll be sure to post my param file. Good luck with your build and let us know how it goes.
Dennis.i have over 3 grand worth of quad equipment and fpv 8 can't use. We just had a baby. Please get the word out.naza gps.dji.gopro 3 silver. Fat shark goggles . scorpion motors. Etc.....
JerseyFlyer Why don't you post it over in the forums at www.garagepilots.com and I'll share it with some people I know that may be interested:
garagepilots.com/forum/categories/for-sale-trade-and-deals/listForCategory
If you have any pics that would help too. Good luck and congrats on the baby!
Nice!
Marco Delano Thanks. Appreciate you watching.
very excited for this series! well done!
Check out my pix4d model I did this morning (Aerial model of an observatory using pix4d and quadcopter (higher quality upload))
It was pretty windy and I was only using a gopro and only had like 8 minutes of flight time, but its really exciting seeing it come together!
Thank you for showing me the software!
I plan on trying to do some agisoft work too soon