Drone so unstable it cant take off

[Hasslefish]

So i just got done rebuilding my drone. replaced my 4 in 1 esc with individual DSHOT 1200 escs. they are makerfire blheli_32 escs. i also just upgraded to the most recent betaflight with dshot commands. my flight controller is a sp racing f3. Earlier today i was trying to fly and it would just flip out every time i gave it throttle. turns out my board orientation was set incorrectly so i fixed that. it is now set up properly but every time i take of it is so unstable that i cannot stay in the air. I normally fly in acro mode but even in angle mode i cant get it off the ground. please help.

update: so i just found a little more information that might help. when i spin up the motors in beta flight some interesting stuff happens. when i use the master to spin up all four motors motor 4 doesnt spin up until about half throttle. when i spin up ONLY motor number 4 it works just fine. if i spin up motor number 4 and leave it at low throttle then spin up another motor them motor 4 stops completely. almost like the other motors are sucking power from motor 4.

update 2: i was just playing around in the betaflight motors tab. i noticed that when i use the master throttle slider and i turn it up and then turn it all the way down to zero the motor beeps as if i was arming the quad. every single time i give it throttle and then cut it off it beeps like i was arming it

 

[theGreenOrange]

Do they work in multishot? If you havent tried muktishot and calibrated the ESCs, try that (for troubleshooting).

 

[Hasslefish]

Do they work in multishot? If you havent tried muktishot and calibrated the ESCs, try that (for troubleshooting).

well to be honest it was late and i was frustrated so i hadnt even though of changing my esc protocol. i just tried dshot 600 and everything worked just fine so i didnt see the need to even go back to multishot and try it out. Although i have no issues running dshot600 i am still curious as to why 1200 wont work. here is a cli dump with dshot 1200 enabled if that helps

 

[theGreenOrange]

How clean is the ESC signal wiring? Is there a separate signal ground wire in place?

 

[Hasslefish]

How clean is the ESC signal wiring? Is there a separate signal ground wire in place?

Each esc has it's own signal ground wire

 

[theGreenOrange]

That fc can't do dshot on motor pin4 since it does not have a DMA address. You need to remap it to motor pin 5.

[RESOLVED] SPRACINGF3EVO DShot 300/600 - Motor 1 does not work · Issue #2162 · betaflight/betaflight

 

[Hasslefish]

Dshot won't work on pin 4 at all? Even though everything seems to run smoothly on dshot600 are there issues that I am just not noticing.

 

[theGreenOrange]

I'm not 100% sure but I had an emax fc where one motor pin didn't have a timer so that pin could not do DMA. I had to remap it to the LED pin to get it working. But mine would not work on dshot600 so I dont know why yours works with 600 since both 600 and 1200 need DMA to work. Did you fly it with 600?

 

[Hasslefish]

I'm not 100% sure but I had an emax fc where one motor pin didn't have a timer so that pin could not do DMA. I had to remap it to the LED pin to get it working. But mine would not work on dshot600 so I dont know why yours works with 600 since both 600 and 1200 need DMA to work. Did you fly it with 600?

Haven't flown it yet, just haven't had the time. But I did a couple full throttle punches with no props on and everything seems to be working fine.

 

[Hasslefish]

So I was finally able to get a flight in. Dshot 600 works beautifully. Low throttle, full throttle. Everything works great