BETTER FLIGHT
- Justin San Juan
- Jul 26, 2016
- 1 min read
After diagnosing the motors individually, I found that I had mistakenly pinned each motor to a wrong port. Motor 1 is supposed to be the front-right motor, Motor 2 as the rear-right motor, Motor 3 as the rear-left motor, and Motor 4 as the front left motor. However, the front-left motor was designated as Motor 1, the front-right motor was Motor 2, the rear-right motor was Motor 3, and the rear-left motor was Motor 4. This meant that as tilting occurred, instead of raising the motor at the lowest point, the flight controller would raise the adjacent motor in the counter clockwise direction. This explains the counter-clockwise wave motion of the faulty motor test flight video. However, this does not explain the initial tilting of the multicopter with the white, rear-left motor being at the lowest, because all motors should rise at the same rate at least at the start. That one motor being faulty is still a likely issue. The same results of the rear-left motor being slow in response are seen in this video after I corrected the designation of which motor is which. However, since the corrections from the PID controller were now in the correct directions, I was able to fly the multicopter but without good automatic stabilization as I was still tuning the PID settings. Also, the first part of the video is of me reciting the current PID settings for record keeping.
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