In /rcg/ we discuss anything & everything remote controlled - multirotors, fixed wing, cars, rovers, helis, boats, submarines, battlebots, lawnmowers, etc.>How do I get started with racing drones?https://oscarliang.com/mini-quad-racing-guide/https://www.fpvknowitall.com/ultimate-fpv-shopping-list/> How to build a racing drone (16 part video series from Joshua Bardwell)https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwoDb7WF6c8mWARrcxtX_G6yytK7QFHID>What about planes?https://www.flitetest.com/>What about aerial photography, is DIY viable?Buy a DJI if what you actually want is to take good photos/videos, go DIY if what you actually want is a fun project.>I want a cheap RC training plane that is turnkey.XK BeaverEachine Wing DragonOMPHobby T720Hobbyzone Champ (used only)>I want a good FPV fixed wing platform.ZOHD DriftSonicmodell AR WingFinwing Albabird>I want a basher fixed wing model for doing crazy shit that is easily repairable.RCFactory, Hacker and other similar profile models>I want a dirt cheap drone to fly around my yard/gardenSyma X5C>I want a dirt cheap drone to fly inside my houseEachine E010/Hubsan X4>What are some good YouTube channels for learning or fun?Joshua Bardwell - https://www.youtube.com/@JoshuaBardwellPainless360 - https://www.youtube.com/@Painless360Flite Test - https://www.youtube.com/@FliteTestPeter Sripol - https://www.youtube.com/@PeterSripolRCModelReviews - https://www.youtube.com/@RCModelReviewsAndrew Newton - https://www.youtube.com/@AndrewNewtonRCGutt - https://www.youtube.com/@rcguttRC Test Flight - https://www.youtube.com/@rctestflightThink Flight - https://www.youtube.com/@thinkflightTail Heavy Productions - https://www.youtube.com/@TailHeavyProductionsPrevious: >>2841917
Looks like Autel is going to be the cheapest option for thermal drones. Maybe DIY.
>>2865516The video that picture is from is what got me into the hobby to begin with - it's nearly 10 years old now!
Is pic related a good starting point for a Ukraine larp replica? https://rotorbuilds.com/build/26940
>>2865949Sure, I guessMake sure to strap a replica Mark 83 to it when you fly around
>>2865949Spray paint a Nerf football brown for added effect.
>>2865949Let me know if you actually want the DXF files for the frame itself.
If I use a 6s battery with motors that are rated for 4s will they go ouof control?
What is the cheapest drone I can get to lift my dslr camera (600g) ? Diy kits are welcome
>>2866145Realistically it will cost way more than buying a DJI, especially a used DJI. And the DJI will give you better results.
anyone know how I can get the smell of an electronics fire out of my buggy? my esc popped and the entire thing smells awful.
>>2866193Time heals all wounds
>>2866177IV seen dji videos on yt the dynamic range is ass, it’s basically on par with an iPhone I want something I can use professionally
>>2866262There are many good reasons why you will struggle to find anybody flying DLSRs on DIY drones these days. There's just no practical place for it.For basic stuff a Mavic 3 gives you 12.8 stops in a package small enough to fit in a purse.If you're a real professional & you need better than that, the Inspire 3 shoots 8k in ProRes raw with 14.7 stops. The Inspire 3 is getting a lot of use on TV/movie sets these days.If even that isn't good enough, then you're into the territory of cinema cameras on something like an Alta X.For your DLSR, once you've bought a suitable gimbal, HD downlink, wireless follow focus, etc. plus built a drone big enough & reliable enough to actually carry it, you will have spent far more than the price of a Mavic 3 or a decent downpayment on an Inspire 3.And even if you get your frankenstein setup to actually work, it will never give you results as good as you get from the DJI stuff - because there is so much more to getting good footage than just the specs of your camera. This coming from somebody who used to do precisely this sort of stuff for a living.
I'm using analog goggles from skyzone, but all I have are the stock linear antennas like from a router. And it's not great. What's a good (omnidirectional) setup?Tempted to just get a two pack of lollipop stubbies and hope for the best lol
>>2866290get one circular polarized and one patch antenna. That will give you one good all around antenna and one directional, assuming you mostly fly in front of yourself.
>>2866290a router will have RP-SMA. usually all the analog stuff will have plain SMAif you want good antennas, and don't take a gamble, go with the brand names like TrueRC
>>2866305I'm flying all around my own location so omni is better, but is there any advantage to two omni antennas?>>2866324What style(s) should I look for?
>>2866339I second TrueRC. Assuming you have diversity or signal mixing, get one of their Core omnis and Biquad 5. They'll both let you flex them into a good spot.
Is a 5Ah 6s battery around 750g too much for a 7 inch built around the aos 2807 1400k?
>>2866414Nah, it'll lift it fine. I lift a pair of 4.2Ah 6S Li-Ion packs at 480g a pop on 1300kv. My all up weight hits 1590g and it has plenty of kick left. I even tried a pair of 4Ah LiPos at around 600g each, and it still did fine. Gets me around 16 miles of total flight distance.
>>2866418Did you make your li-ons or buy them?
>>2866261ripip my esc and rx
>>2866111yes please, nice trips tho>>2866092will do if i figure out the project, i'll show it there
>>2866305Polarisation & directionality are separate. A patch antenna is still either linear or circular polarized.>>2866339>is there any advantage to two omni antennas?Yes, because you can mount them in different orientations. An omni has a doughnut shaped pickup with nulls at the 'top' & 'bottom'. Mount one vertically & the other horizontally.>>2866483>yes pleaseRealised ofc I can't upload a zip. There's a link to my site on my RotorBuilds profile, go to the Projects page & the files are there.For that first design the DXF files are a mess because they were converted from SketchUp models (that design was before I moved to Shapr3D) but I never had any hassle from the CNC place. The files for the later quad design are cleaner.
After getting my dead RC car batteries that didn't want to charge recharged by my local hobby store, I realize I need something to measure the remaining charge when i'm out in the field.A reader doesn't require energy since it just take power from the battery it's measuring right? My current dual-charger doesn't have an interface or display but it gets the job done. I have two 7.4 volt lipo batteries that I plan to take out with me, and since I had no way to read it and little experience I would just run it til my battery dies. It's unfeasible now. Can anyone recommend a brand, model, or product code for some kind of voltage reader that is preferably lightweigh? I take the train everywhere and my Rustler itself has some weight to it.
>>2866423Mine were DIY packs made with a 3D printed rib and 6 Molicel P42a cells each. They could've been lighter, but I wasn't as experienced with 3D printing when I made them.
>>2865516I have started work on building the I-153. If anyone is interested, I will show pictures sometime later.
what's your favourite short course body in terms of looks? can't decide for shit
>>2866612pro-line axis sc, flow tek fusion, and the arrma mojave 4sbaja bug bodies look fun too, if you want something different.
I got this new lightbar on my rc car because I wanted to be able to drive it at night (or at least be able to spot where it is), spent 30 minutes wondering why it would randomly turn on or blink in a pattern when using channel 1/2 when I had it in VCC. Turns out that signal cable had a reason for being there. It’s a multifunctional lightbar for crawler guys who like when the lights dance around and flash here and there. Well after plugging it into channel 3, it finally works how I wanted it to. Have yet to make a frame for it but I’m thinking of making a triangle or rectangle out of 2mm aluminum bar/plate. If you fellas have any other ideas of how to fit it, I’d like to hear them.
I have an old quad with a naze board and separate ESCs that I'd like to get flying. There's some FCs out there for like $20, would one of those and a PDB get me up in the air?https://a.co/d/cjpG3dthttps://a.co/d/2jRJsYLhttps://a.co/d/8SM5Vod
>>2866509>A patch antenna is still either linear or circular polarized.Didn't realize that. Learned something new. >>2866521just get something like this.https://www.ebay.com/itm/204129321593
>>2866675Amazon isn't a good place for hobby gear. Don't be surprised if you get a no-name chink board (there are different tiers of chink shit) and it falls from the sky for no reason.
>>2866509thanks, that’s more than enough for me. also, what FPV goggles + radio controller combo would you recommend?
>>2866766 (me)Forgot to add, i'm on a tight budget, so the «justasgood» option is preferred.
Behold the latest in doohickey technologyI combined the headpiece of an unknown prototype Chinese "TV glasses" I got from my electronics professor way back in 2012 with a series of adapters of varying jankiness to an eachine rx58pro running Achilles and a buck converter set to 4v.It actually works so at this point I think I'm basically obligated to make a circuit board to stick it all together properly.
should I get a Radiomaster mt12?I don't want to spend nearly $400 for something like a flysky NB4+ and a few receivers.
What cheap thing can I buy to directionally locate radio signals? i.e. my quad when it's lost in long grass. 5.8ghz, 2.4 and 900mhz for the video and control link too.I already have buzzers and beepers and GPS on my biggest quad but sometimes things just malfunction. (the last time the battery went down to about 2.5V, video cut out but I still had my crossfire link for some minutes before that died too)>>2867262radiomaster radios are generally god tier, I don't know anything about their car ones though
Not a drone related question as such, but I figure you guys know all about this. How do I into Li-Po batteries? I want to use a small battery (pic related indicative) but how am I supposed to charge it? All the charging kits are for the legit RC planes with batteries the size of a brick. Seems overkill
>>2867484They make an adapter for these 2S micro batteries. 1S batteries have their own special charger.>Captcha: YG0YKD
anyone else attempting to copy starfield and build a DIY cruiser/drone? i am having a hard time getting it to life sized, and the stores aren't providing what my family needs. i have solved everything mathematically and engineering wise, but i am having a hard time putting the materials together. mental blocks and the likes.reaching levitation point is quite hard for me and i could use some advice; thanks
>>2867471>I don't know anything about their car ones thoughyeah, I have a Boxer its been good. after reading a bunch on the mt12 is seems to have some issues due to edgetx and elrs being designed around aircraft needing at least 4 channels where surface only really needs 2 most of the time. along with an issue were the RX disconnects under certain circumstances and can cause a runaway.I guess I'll just keep researching it.
>>2867484you need to determine if you are using a 1S (3.7V) or 2S (7.4V) battery and what type of connector it's using. 1S batteries can be charged with a board like this: https://www.adafruit.com/product/4410
>>2866193I've only ever had a shitty "Surpass" from Banggood do that, what the fuck made the Spektrum go boom?
>>2867698dunno, I was going 60-70mph through a field, stopped to let the motor cool off for a couple mins then went to go again and it blew as I pinned the throttle to full. it killed my rx too.to their credit, horizon did warranty both.
>>2867747>60-70mph through a fieldWere you using the 20t pinion? Bad luck about the esc but at least it was warrantied, my esc fan died but the esc itself is one of only few original parts still on the Typhon. You won't really get rid of that electronic smell either, one of my 3s LiPos still smells like that burnt esc 2 years later.
>>2865516What's a good starter kit on aliexpress? Choice day sale going on now.
>>2867751>20t pinion?yeah. I mainly run 100mm hoons on it, didn't feel like swapping the pinion for one pack.>my esc fan died funny enough my fan lived through that little fire, I soldered on the 3 pin from the dead esc and it cools the motor now.oh btw if you have the spectrum programmer update your firmware on both. they put in an option for setting the LVC sometime after my first one was made. didn't know till i got the replacement and my programmer required an update.
>>2867788Do you have a fan and heatsink for the motor? So dumb the Typhon doesn't come with one stock when just about every other 6s in the line does. I learned my lesson after my first motor died to install one and to take it easy on the 20t, give it a rest every couple of minutes.
>>2867792yeah I do, ARA390299. with the fan it touches the body which isn't great but it works. what cooling setup do you have on yours?
>>2867793I had a Surpass heatsink with dual fans but it was garbage no matter what I tried and it all still got too hot, I ended up with the same heatsink as you and put a 40mm Rocket on it along with a 35mm Rocket for the ESC and it runs much much cooler. I can't rate Rocket enough, even after 20+ bashes they both spin silently to a stop at the same time when you turn it all off.
>>2867689I want to run an Arduino, which needs 7-12VDC.Are these charger boards legit?
>>2867801for lithium chemistries you really need a balance charger for any cells in series.I'm not sure if it'll fit your use case but those chinkshit diy power banks that take a bunch of 18650 in parallel claim they do 12v 1.5a
>>2867801no, buy a balance charger. Unless you're going to use individual 18650's (li-ion not lipo) and you can remove them to charge them.
>>2867801They'll work for awhile, but eventually your cells will fall out of balance and you'll risk burning your house down. Treat your lithium cells with respect or they'll fuck you up.
i know its not a diy drone but is the one-hand controller included with the Avata 2 worth using? I really dont want to spend 200 bucks on the traditional 2-stick controller.
>>2868339>$200Sometimes I need a reminder why I didn't choose them. Apparently the motion controller is fairly intuitive. Never used it myself, but it's probably fine for DJI sorts of flying.
Is there any merit to setting up a ground station when flying fpv?I'm used to industrial autonomous vehicles, where we have a central server and you hook up with thin clientsCouldn't I get better signal by hooking up some big ass antenna on the roof of my car instead of on top of my head?
>>2868502There's three major reasons ground stations aren't popular for FPV pilots.1. It's a lot of shit to drag out. 2. Most people don't fly far enough to warrant any special antenna wizardry.3. High frequency signals fall apart fast in a wire, so anything more than a few inches will rapidly degrade before it hits the receiver. Unless you plan to fly a long ass way, don't bother and save the hassle.
>>2868560Ah, that must be why all the ones I've seen online had the receiver box hanging all the way up the boomI'm in powertrain rnd so I know nothing about radio, I assume it's not a simple case of "bigger is better"
>>2868639The only place bigger will matter is in terms of gain. High gain is a very effective way to grab more signal, but it's much like the zoom on a camera. If you don't aim it, it's gonna make it worse instead of better. I'm going to be rigging an antenna tracker soon, and hang my digital receiver from that. Got some 13dBi patches for 20x signal, but it's crazy easy to look the wrong way and go blind for a moment. Best to make a machine aim it correctly.
>>2865516hey /rcg/ i was out in the woods on a run with my doggo, and i found this. can anyone tell me what transmitter i need to get this working ? how can i charge the battery? i tired plugging the battery into my airsoft battery chargeer, but it charges super slow. the main computer that everything in plugged into is AR637TA
>>2869810Honestly, if you have a transmitter already, just get a compatible receiver and stuff that in there. The ones with all the 3-pin connections all do PWM, so it's just a matter of hooking up channels the way you like. Best not to box yourself into an expensive brand like Spektrum. Get a cheap ELRS controller and receiver. You'll thank yourself later.Speak of the devil, I just looked that thing up. It's a Spektrum receiver. I mean, it should work, but there's better stuff for far less money.
>>2869833im guessing the place controller is the transmitter? and the sbc on the plane is the receiver? So what receiver should i get, that would work with what i have?
>>2869810>AR637TAthis is the receiver. It is not a computer, it is just receiving the signals from the transmitter (the controller that you hold in your hand) and makes the motors and servo on the plane do what you tell it. You could get a Radiomaster transmitter and receiver and replace the one that is in there, or get a transmitter that is compatible with Spektrum. This will not be as simple as plug in the plane and it magically flies, someone already lost this one. >batteryIt's dead. If it was stuck in a tree or something while plugged in the battery would have been drained below the minimum voltage and it won't hold a charge again.
>>2869857As you'll likely need 5 channels for that, you could grab an ER5C-V2 and a Radiomaster Pocket (ELRS version has the right transmitter module built in). Both are cheap, yet quite capable. If you go that route, be sure to pay attention to the voltage you feed it. That module will do 1-2S voltage, and the dead battery is 3S which will smoke it. A $5 5V regulator will step it down. Used one of those guys in my FPV tank. I don't like naming brands because shills fucking suck, but these are things I've personally used for years and have enjoyed. Spektrum offers very little that most people need, yet costs twice as much. It's a boomer brand at this point.
>>2869863>it won't hold a charge again.doesn't hurt to try, give it a stupidly slow charge till 3.3v per cell.
>>2870028I find that dead packs like that just make heat and discharge themselves.
>>2865516Are there any open source projects that make drones and open source controller with arduino?
>>2870117Are you asking if there are open source pieces of hardware, or the software itself?
>>2870157yes
>>2870117Drones outgrew 8-bit microcontrollers many years ago. Everything is STM32 based now.
>>2869870>>2869863>>2869833Thanks for the help guys, im gonna order a new receiver and transmitter and will keep yall updated in the future.
>>2870462Best of luck to you! If you have questions, please ask. ExpressLRS can be slightly tricky at first, but it's rather easy once you clear the initial hump. I check in here several times a day most days.
>>2870339I don't know much on the hardware end, but I do know that the three major pieces of flight controller software are all open source. Betaflight, iNav, and ArduPilot are all publicly available. ESC stuff is also heading in the open source direction.
Whats a good second plane after the sport cub s2?
>>2871280What do you want the plane to do? It's like asking what a person should have for lunch after having fried eggs for breakfast.
>>2871360LoS flying in medium sized fields. Something that handles light wind better but will also let me slowly take off the training wheels and fly full acro.
>>2871526You could try an AtomRC Penguin. It's a pretty capable foamie that will keep flying at rather low speed, and seems to have very good stability. If you wanna go faster, the Dolphin is highly praised. I've got one of those, but constantly wish it was a bit slower and smaller. Just too fast to fly the local pasture, so all I get to do is turn. There's also the ZOHD Dart 250. I enjoy foamies due to the ease of repair. A little hot glue and it'll fly again in 15 minutes, no matter how fucked it was.
>>2866712Update: I got what you linked for super cheap. It lets off a loud ass beep when I plug it in. My lipo batteries are about 7.6volts. Now that I can measure the remaining juice out in the field, what should I run them down to before I swap them out and charge?
Bout to transition this old naze32 quad to betaflight with a $13 piko clone lmao, too bad it doesn't have an OSD
>>2871657Shoot for 3.7-3.8 per cell. You've obviously got a 2S pack. You appear to be at 3.8 now, so you're good.
>>2871657don't go below 3.2V per cell, 3.7V is storage charge, 4.2V is fully charged. Just cover the speaker with a finger when you plug it in. You can also leave it plugged in while you're driving and it will start beeping when the voltage gets low.
few retarded questions incoming:when you buy an FPV camera like Wolfwhoop WT05 it's just a camera broadcasting the video, right?how do you get telemetry data on screen like pic related? do you connect the camera to a flight computer or something?and how do you record that video? do you need to recieve the video on a computer and record it there?
>>2872193>Wolfwhoop WT05that's a cam and VTX in one unit so you won't get OSD on thatbut yes, normally you connect the flight controller, which you'll need in quads and which is also usefull in planes, to the VTX. in digital systemsin analog systems the flight controller sits between cam and VTX and will paint the letters in the video stream before it reaches the VTX.you record on the goggles and some digital systems can record better video on the airframe itself
>>2871858Brain transplant complete. Time to find an sbus receiver, and load it up with betaflight.
>>2872223Well... It did come with THIS receiver, but I have no idea what kind it is.Back has pin labels for some of the pins. ch1-4, Vin, mclr, pgc(?) , pgd(?), gnd
>>2872224Maybe if I just wire up the wire stubs on there to the ppm input?Guessing it's ppm, but I'd still have to find out what radio protocol it uses.
>>2872193FPV cameras come in many flavors. There are analog cameras that do composite video like the yellow plug on the back of your TV, AIO units like the WT05 you listed that pack a VTX, and proprietary digital cameras that only work with their respective systems.To get telemetry, you must inject it somewhere before sending. With analog, you just feed the camera signal into something with an OSD chip, and most flight controllers have such a chip. That will then go to the video transmitter and you'll see it baked into your feed. On digital units, you will be sending OSD data via MSP Displayport through a UART. That will then be transmitted to your digital receiver and superimposed onto the video feed. For recording, it depends on the video system used. Most systems have a DVR at some point. Analog tends to do it on a set of goggles or handheld panel, and digital tends to have a DVR on both the VTX and receiver. The difference with most digital systems is that the OSD is saved as a separate thing and must be baked into the video afterwards if you wish to share it that way. Screen capture with a capture card technically is possible, and can bypass re-encoding of a digital feed for OSD. Bonafidepirate on YouTube does just that.
>>2872224Heaven forbid they put a panel on it so anyone knows what it is.
>>2872313>panelDon't ask what happened. I meant label.
>>2872196>>2872312Thanks anons, I think I'll use a AIO like that WT05 and a 5.8Ghz monitor for my first build with FPV, just to keep it as simple as possible, so no OSD for now. It's gonna be an airplane with no flight controller, but I can just connect that camera to battery power and it'll work and transmit, r-right?
>>2872372Assuming your battery falls within the specs your AIO will handle, just feed it the direct battery voltage and watch it go.I went to the specs page and that unit is rated for 3.3-5.5v. Unless your plane uses 1S power, it'll cook that thing. You may need a 5v regulator to go in-line unless there's a BEC somewhere on your plane.
>>2872372the ESC will have a BEC. the one you use the power the servos. (5V)video will get noisy because of them but it could power the cam/VTX, too. or get a seperate BEC for that.so you're fine. but an OSD and a flight controller make life so much better (battery charge displayed, GPS, speed and rescue mode, ...). consider it for your next plane
Here are the parts of the Shahed Iranian drone.Can you ID them?
>>2872421They're using amphenol mil circular connectors on a budget cruise missile?Why so ritzy?
>>2872313Google reverse image search actually delivered for once and I found this. No manuals or anything but apparently it's a 7 or 8 channel FlysKY ppm receiver by dasmikro, which should be enough information for me to use it, if I can figure out how you bind it.
>>2872431>amphenolMore like aliexpress.
>>2872377>consider it for your next planewhich one would you recommend?
Is it know the parts used for the FPV drones in the Ukraine war?I'd like to make one. Without the bomb of course.
anyone here fuck with rc helis
>>2872493ntaI like to go with Matek, Speedybee, or Holybro for my wing controllers. They're all pretty good.
>>2872535They use whatever they can source, depending largely on supplier availability.There is plenty of coverage showing the stuff, so we know it’s the usual hobby parts that we all use - Brother Hobby motors, iFlight frames, AKK VTX, Radiomaster radios & receivers, APD ESCs on the bigger stuff.They manufacture some of the larger frames in house, but the <10” stuff is all off the shelf.
thinking about going from single motor to dual motor for the first timedo I need a special dual ESC or allah forbid two ESCs? or will some sort of ''wire split thingy'' suffice
>>2872705You need one ESC per motor. How else did you think it would work?
>>2872535https://docs.google.com/document/d/19LejXNlQ35-0y9LKt--BWHSI-XWoirszsX8IvB81nEA/edit?tab=t.0
>>2872718one ESC and then split power wires for two motors?
>>2872722>>2872722 #Nope. An ESC has to perfectly sync the power to the motor’s three separate windings. If you split the outputs from an ESC to two separate motors, it will instantly desync.Even if you did magically manage to get two motors to sync perfectly on one ESC, you wouldn’t have independent control of them which largely defeats the point.
>>2872725that means I have to somehow split PWM cable from receiver that normally goes into single ESC into two cables for two ESCs, right?
>>2872794that, or even better separate throttle outputs so you can do differential thrust
>>2872047>>2872066How do I know when it’s 3.7 per cell? The charger already says each side is 3.7 and it’s fully charged, it says the whole thing is 7.6. How can I run it down and switch battery packs when it’s already at the level you guys are suggesting? What am I missing? What is the default voltage level that these alarms go off at? Does it depend on who is selling it or is it all the same factory/source?
>>2872995check the sticker on the back of the buzzer. In the ebay listing it shows it alarms at 3.3V per cell. What is your charger set to, are you sure it's set to a LiPo Balance Charge? Because 3.7V is not fully charged, it should be 4.2V. The nominal voltage is 3.7V, a lot of the electric stuff in RC has stupid naming conventions. You can run it at that voltage, but the batteries have more storage space in them.
>>28729957.6÷2=3.8When a battery pack is in series, you just add the voltage of each cell together. You can get the average by dividing by the number cells. There is one exception to that however, when cells are wired in parallel. Parallel cells add their max current together instead of voltage. For example, if you have a pack wired in a 2S2P configuration, it would have a max charged voltage of 8.4 and would have 4 cells in total. Finally, 3.7-3.8 per cell is storage voltage. It's a low charge level that will degrade your battery the slowest.
I'm having an issue with my drone where it has really laggy inputse.g. I shut off the throttle and it takes 500ms or so to actually reflect that change in flight, or I counter-roll but it just keeps rolling in the same direction for another half-second>axisflying 2.5 cineon>elrs 2.4ghz>tx16s>los flying>most recent betaflight>angle modeAngle mode also likes going tits-up and suddenly going from 30% to 75% throttle during a gradual increase and I don't know why that is. All of my curves are linear so I'd expect a smoother increase than what I see. It looks like airmode might be the culprit since I'm flying inside, so I'm going to change that and see what happensWhen looking at the model in Betaflight, all of my inputs are immediately reflected in the program, so I don't understand where the disconnect isAside from airmode, does anyone have some recommendations for what settings I need to look into?
>>2873393Update;Airmode change didn't really change anythingSeems like the receiver is missing packets. I had the drone flying in a box, caught it against a wall, disarmed, but it still took a second for the disarm to go through. Input lag still happens; sometimes it will ramp up the throttle smoothly, while other times it will jump between valuesLikely related to tx power in my 2.4ghz saturated neighbourhood, albeit I find it weird that it's a problem from like 2 feet away>tfw can't fly outside in a "clear" environment because everything just got coated in snow
>>2873393I doubt this is the answer, but it's all I could think of. What is the CPU usage showing as in Betaflight?
>>2873455When plugged in it’s normally less than 70%, usually 55%-65%One thing I did notice is that the flash space(?) in the top right corner reads 0 MB but idk if that’d impact it (or how to fix it)I’ll have to look at my tx power again because I’m pretty sure I turned it down during setup. That’s the only explanation I can think of for weird delays provided there isn’t a hardware issue (which doesn’t appear to be the case based on responsiveness in Betaflight receiver) but at the same time I don’t know why it would be fine when on USB and fail when pulling from a 4SIt’s annoying having it slam into my ceiling while I disarm it but at least I have prop guards. Probably damaged the lipo based on the surface texture so I’ll have to kill that, rip
>>2873455>>2873496Might be related to the PID loop (need to move to 4k), DSHOT setting, or softserial as a complete guess from a Betaflight issues on Github from earlier this year, https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight/issues/13290I'll try again in the next few days and see if any of those settings might be related.
>>2873496Your CPU usage is too high. Shoot for 30%. You're idling at 65%, so imagine what it is while it's flying. As for your flash, that's going to fill anytime you fly. Unless you're trying to tune, you can safely ignore it. Otherwise, wipe the blackbox before flying, then extract it and use the blackbox tool.>>2873525This guy is spot on.
>>2873779Gotcha, I thought sub-70% was okay based on a Bardwell video I watched re: every tab in Betaflight. I didn’t have any issues before so this is good to know>tfw both posts are meI’ll go to DSHOT300 and 4K PID loop, will probably know if it fixed everything come SaturdayTy for the help frens
>>2873814It probably varies between processors. I have one build where I used an F411, and kept having weird shit like OSD elements disappearing and shaky flight. Turns out, having a GPS really adds a lot of load. Ended up needing a 2k loop and minimal filtering to keep it happy. This was with it reading 40-50% at idle, and afterwards I got it down below 30%. As a last resort, the CLI often has options for slight overclocking. You can speed it up by 10-20%, but it'll get warm faster.
