Hover instability (Althold)

ArduCopter Single/Coax
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Hi all,

This is my first post, so please excuse me if I do not provide enough info.

I’m building a coaxcopter from scratch and started testing it by suspending it from the ceiling and running it in althold mode. When it starts increasing altitude, it increasingly oscillates and becomes unstable, as shown in the image below:

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This happens on both roll and pitch. I checked VibeX/Y/Z and they seem ok.

I think that this is an issue with either the control fins being too over/underpowered or the PIDs for roll/pitch being too high, but experimenting with these doesn’t seem to help much.

Could y’all suggest what I should look at? Here’s also a full log file:
log_177_UnknownDate.bin.zip (719.1 KB)

Thank you!

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Hi, I’m having similar issues with my coaxcopter, have you found a solution?

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Can you send a picture of your setup ? A video of the flight ? Is the string under tension when flying ?

I also tried to tune mine with a string but it was realy hard and I ended up tuning it with open flight.
Also AltHold may not be working, I would advise you to use stabilize for your first tune.