Anyone near me who would help a newb?
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VirtueViolater
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Yup, the best footage is guys learning to fly and keeping up with their progress
Hi guys,
Right now I don't have any way to record my attempts at flight, pretty embarrassing anyway (I'm sure you would chuckle a bunch watching me try), I'm having the darndest time trying to get used to fpv and especially on the crappy video gear I have. Bright side is if I can learn to fly with this stuff I'll be able to fly just about anything.
I went out to practice a little yesterday after catching up with honey-do, half way through my 4th pack I crashed and killed at least 1 esc (blown chip on the board) and a second one is getting very hot just being turned on so I think it must be damaged too unless there is some relationship between motors of the same direction.
The #1 motor esc blew and the #4 motor esc is the one getting hot. Is it possible that because #1 is bad that #4 is getting hot since they are both CW?
I couldn't find the exact esc's that are in this thing, they seem to be racerstar (RS ) and they have a rev 1.3 on the board. When I look at close up pictures of the RS esc's, V1's show rev 1.1 on them and the V2's show rev 1.2 on them, so I assume the ones on this wizard must be V3's?
I ended up ordering a number of sets of esc's figuring I will need a bunch in the long run.
You guys helped me get configured and in the air, can you give me some advice on whether I need to swap out all 4 esc's to the same revision?
Right now I don't have any way to record my attempts at flight, pretty embarrassing anyway (I'm sure you would chuckle a bunch watching me try), I'm having the darndest time trying to get used to fpv and especially on the crappy video gear I have. Bright side is if I can learn to fly with this stuff I'll be able to fly just about anything.
I went out to practice a little yesterday after catching up with honey-do, half way through my 4th pack I crashed and killed at least 1 esc (blown chip on the board) and a second one is getting very hot just being turned on so I think it must be damaged too unless there is some relationship between motors of the same direction.
The #1 motor esc blew and the #4 motor esc is the one getting hot. Is it possible that because #1 is bad that #4 is getting hot since they are both CW?
I couldn't find the exact esc's that are in this thing, they seem to be racerstar (RS ) and they have a rev 1.3 on the board. When I look at close up pictures of the RS esc's, V1's show rev 1.1 on them and the V2's show rev 1.2 on them, so I assume the ones on this wizard must be V3's?
I ended up ordering a number of sets of esc's figuring I will need a bunch in the long run.
You guys helped me get configured and in the air, can you give me some advice on whether I need to swap out all 4 esc's to the same revision?
VirtueViolater
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You're already swapping out two....... may as well
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Jtrjr
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HTP,
I just replied to your "conversation". This note provides a bit of the information I asked about in my reply. Sounds like you're on the right path. I might buy 4 or 5 ESC's but I'm not sure I'd replace them unless I suspected they were bad. Anytime I buy/build a new bird I almost always buy spare parts at the same time. One of the tough parts of this hobby is parts change rapidly. Motors, ESC's, FC's and other parts that I bought for my first builds, only months ago, have already been obsoleted or superceded. That's why I have an inventory of parts, many more than I'd like to have. Some of which I wouldn't even use today.
Jerry
I just replied to your "conversation". This note provides a bit of the information I asked about in my reply. Sounds like you're on the right path. I might buy 4 or 5 ESC's but I'm not sure I'd replace them unless I suspected they were bad. Anytime I buy/build a new bird I almost always buy spare parts at the same time. One of the tough parts of this hobby is parts change rapidly. Motors, ESC's, FC's and other parts that I bought for my first builds, only months ago, have already been obsoleted or superceded. That's why I have an inventory of parts, many more than I'd like to have. Some of which I wouldn't even use today.
Jerry
