First hover flights done. Still have a little work to do on yaw tuning. Once thing is for sure. using better hardware is the way to go. I have had several issues with Matek controllers (765wing, 764wing wse, f405 etc) but this Orange cube is awesome! No drift or other strange issue. Just stable.
I have had some additional issues with the ZMO hardware however. Dont trust the stock servos. I had the system powered on while adjusting the params in mission planner and all the sudden my servos lost power. Something was shorting out the BEC. Double checked all connections and wires. Finally pulled out my Seek thermal camera and immediately found one of the vtail servos was hot. Unplugged it and everything worked again. Tried a servo tester on the servo and it let the magic smoke out of the tester. It is toast. Maybe this is what damaged the stock flight controller. I was able to remove the vtail and servos and replaced them with THESE. I had to trim the mount mounts on the servos and in the tail but they worked great.
I am hoping to finishing tuning this weekend and test forward transition and FBWB next weekend. Otherwise I am still working on;
- Making my own 2.4ghz antennas. The once that come with the herelink are just too big and bulky. I am going to make some dipoles.
- I am waiting on a few micro hdmi cables to connect the GoPro to the Herelink. Ended up buying a GoPro 7 Black just for this as that is the latest with a true hdmi out.
- I am struggling with having Mission Planner running properly on the Herelink. If anyone has any input, HERE is my thread for that.
FYI I am also building a Heewing Ranger T1 vtol and have a Swan K1 that I swapped for a Matek and ardupilot. It is mostly done but will do some test flight tomorrow. I am on my 3rd FC with it and will be slapping an Orange cube in it if it gives me any more grief.
