Official Freewing Twin 80mm/90mm A-10 Thunderbolt II Thread

[ColtPilot]

Thank you for the reply ColtPiltot !!
Ok, so I opened up a new rx, and have them bound and synched, I believe lol.. I guess crashed reciever snuck past me ..However, they still beep? I have throttle control, but as soon a return to 0 throttle, they begin to beep again..Is this normal?

No, not normal. Should have nothing at full down throttle stick. No noise nothing. The new ESC's you have to be quick to set. Had to on the AL-37. Had to go through the process 3 times and finally got it. Have to be quick on the first beebs.

[Look ma, no trim]

Make sure you plug in the non bec connection first, then the bec connection. Repeat the process. The other would be the ESC line to the RX isn't connected properly. The ESC isn't receiving the signal from the RX. Then the rest of what you did. The only thing I can think of.

Thank you for the reply ColtPiltot !!
Ok, so I opened up a new rx, and have them bound and synched, I believe lol.. I guess crashed reciever snuck past me ..However, they still beep? I have throttle control, but as soon a return to 0 throttle, they begin to beep again..Is this normal?

[Gringotuerto]

Make sure you plug in the non bec connection first, then the bec connection. Repeat the process. The other would be the ESC line to the RX isn't connected properly. The ESC isn't receiving the signal from the RX. Then the rest of what you did. The only thing I can think of.

Agree. One thing I have done when the overlapping tones get confusing is just work on the one with the UBEC first, so you only have one tone set at a time. Then when you figure out what is going on, you can do the dual-cal as described above.

Also, I'm sorry if this is too dumb to mention, but I have gotten stuck for an hour on this before so....make sure you don't have a throttle-cut switch set that is invalidating your throttle stick movement.

[ColtPilot]

**MAYDAY MAYDAY**

I hate to bother you guys, but I am having a real hard time getting these esc's sorted on this A-10 80mm.. I just picked up my FW Corsair from PO today, so I figure I need to get this sorted quick lol..I am following everything I've read on the board pertaining to calibrating/arming the esc..I have a Spektrum DX8G2/Spektrum8000 rx, I've bound it and powered up the board. I have lights, a set of beeping esc's that will not arm and I can not use anything else? Just a slow steady beep. I have my tx on/throttle stick at full. I then plug batteries into esc's, Rx is powered by the connected ubec. I throttle down immediately, still beeping. Tx throttle trim is all the way down. I try and do them separate, still just beeps.. Again I'm real sorry to bother you guys, I'm just not sure what I am doing wrong.. I really appreciate any guidance you can offer..

Josh in Florida

Make sure you plug in the non bec connection first, then the bec connection. Repeat the process. The other would be the ESC line to the RX isn't connected properly. The ESC isn't receiving the signal from the RX. Then the rest of what you did. The only thing I can think of.

[Look ma, no trim]

**MAYDAY MAYDAY**

I hate to bother you guys, but I am having a real hard time getting these esc's sorted on this A-10 80mm.. I just picked up my FW Corsair from PO today, so I figure I need to get this sorted quick lol..I am following everything I've read on the board pertaining to calibrating/arming the esc..I have a Spektrum DX8G2/Spektrum8000 rx, I've bound it and powered up the board. I have lights, a set of beeping esc's that will not arm and I can not use anything else? Just a slow steady beep. I have my tx on/throttle stick at full. I then plug batteries into esc's, Rx is powered by the connected ubec. I throttle down immediately, still beeping. Tx throttle trim is all the way down. I try and do them separate, still just beeps.. Again I'm real sorry to bother you guys, I'm just not sure what I am doing wrong.. I really appreciate any guidance you can offer..

Josh in Florida

[xviper]

It's also a gear sequencer and light controller.

[Look ma, no trim]

You can bypass the BB for everything if you want. You can even get a cheap gear door sequencer for cheap and get rid of the BB entirely. However, the BB is a convenience feature and keeping the ribbon cable makes for fewer connections every time you put the wings ON/OFF.
I've had no issues with the stock ESCs.

So basically the control board acts like a big Y harness for everything if we want. Ok, that is what I needed to know..Thank you sir!

[xviper]

Question. Am I to understand that if I'd like to bypass the control box, I do not use the ribbons, and that I only use the box for the lighting and LG due to sequencing? If I were to go with a different lighting option, then I only use the control board for the gear?

3rd and last question, lol, what is the general consensus pertaining to the ESC's and servos in the pnp in regards to reliability? Yea or nea?

Thanks in advance for the help fellas!!

You can bypass the BB for everything if you want. You can even get a cheap gear door sequencer for cheap and get rid of the BB entirely. However, the BB is a convenience feature and keeping the ribbon cable makes for fewer connections every time you put the wings ON/OFF.
I've had no issues with the stock ESCs.

[Look ma, no trim]

Question. Am I to understand that if I'd like to bypass the control box, I do not use the ribbons, and that I only use the box for the lighting and LG due to sequencing? If I were to go with a different lighting option, then I only use the control board for the gear?

3rd and last question, lol, what is the general consensus pertaining to the ESC's and servos in the pnp in regards to reliability? Yea or nea?

Thanks in advance for the help fellas!!

[Look ma, no trim]

Sorry, I am still not printing at the moment. There might be some folks on the forum that might be able to assist, so I'll let them voice it. Otherwise you might be able to post in the 3DP thread to see if there are any takers:
https://www.hobbysquawk.com/forum/th...ial-3dp-thread

thank you Dee

[Dirty Dee]

Dee are you still printing? I've seen your page says you're no longer printing? Would like to lick up some things if you are..lmk!

Sorry, I am still not printing at the moment. There might be some folks on the forum that might be able to assist, so I'll let them voice it. Otherwise you might be able to post in the 3DP thread to see if there are any takers:

https://www.hobbysquawk.com/forum/the-lounge/3d-printing/121532-official-3dp-thread

[Look ma, no trim]

I'm glad to hear that!

Dee are you still printing? I've seen your page says you're no longer printing? Would like to lick up some things if you are..lmk!

[Look ma, no trim]

Maidened the A10 yesterday and had an incident. Not a lot of damage but ran out of juice because I forgot to start the timer and the guys that were supporting me were no help and I forced the landing. Cost me a gear door. I was running two 6s 6000 Admirals and they are a bit heavy which resulted in nose heavy. Not a lot but needed some up trim. I'm going to go back to the Glacier 5300 6s's. A lot smaller battery. Anyway I needed a lot of left trim on aileron. More than normal in my opinion. That's without any ordinance on board. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what may cause the excessive right roll? I did fly most of the flight inadvertently on take off flap with no elevator mix. That may be one of the issues, but the flaps look to be centered pretty good on the ground. Going to try another "maiden" tomorrow on the revised CG and the smaller batteries. Hope I can remember to start the timer this time.

did you since the motors?

[themudduck]

With good weather coming this weekend I hope to get some more video, that last one was the very first time using the wing "pod". I want to try it with the Phantom. Then I'll get the thing posted on Thingiverse.

[Aros]

Very very cool!!

[themudduck]

^ That is so cool. It keeps the horizon level. Is that a setting on the camera? Can you turn that off and make it follow the roll?

see above post.... its controlled by the software, you can play it back in stabilized mode or in regular mode.

[themudduck]

That is truly amazing. How did you attach it to the pylon and how long is the battery good for? Very unique perspective, one that to me looks much better than the other cameras. Saw it on Amazon, about $195 right? What medium is it saved on and what type of batteries? Thanks, sorry for all the questions, just looks really cool and if I get a camera, I would like something like that.

Hey guys, yeah it is really cool! My friend posted an edited video (3 videos in one) where I mounted the camera on the tail of the AL37 airliner - it looks like someone is following the plane.

So this little camera comes with a small magnetic "docking station" that charges the camera and downloads the video. There are some electronics in the docking station and I guess that helps keep the camera small. I don't know for sure but the camera seems to use a capacitor instead of a battery, because it won't hold a full charge for more than a few days (I have to recharge it for each weekend). Maybe it just has a tiny battery!

The longest video it can take is 5 minutes (it won't record longer than that). You can take several 5-min videos in a row. It saves the videos internally and then you download it to your PC using the docking station. You can also use it with your phone (Iphone or Samsung). It uses proprietary software (free download) that you have to use, but then you can save it in a standard format. So it does have some limitations but it is very small and takes this really cool video. It has two modes - the stabilized mode and an "FPV" mode which looks exactly like a regular video. The magic is in the software, its takes a 360-degree video and when you play it back it looks like you see in my previous post. You can play it back in either mode - but the neat thing about the stabilized mode is that you can mount the camera in any position and the video will play back "upright". With the "FPV" mode the camera must be upright. (FPV mode is not FPV, that's just what they call it)

It will also take individual pics, and can be used to take "hyperlapse" videos (a string of pictures) but I got it for the video.

What I did was to mount the camera in a custom-made 3D-printed plastic pod that mounts on a FW weapons pylon.. (I haven't uploaded the new one to Thingiverse yet but I will).

[xviper]

^ That is so cool. It keeps the horizon level. Is that a setting on the camera? Can you turn that off and make it follow the roll?

[Hugh Wiedman]

I took a video today using an Insta 360GO camera mounted on the outboard pylon. Unfortunately the video timed out before the landing, but its still pretty cool. The 360GO camera stabilizes the horizon which produces some pretty cool effects when rolling and doing other maneuvers. I recommend turning the sound OFF because of the wind noise.

That is truly amazing. How did you attach it to the pylon and how long is the battery good for? Very unique perspective, one that to me looks much better than the other cameras. Saw it on Amazon, about $195 right? What medium is it saved on and what type of batteries? Thanks, sorry for all the questions, just looks really cool and if I get a camera, I would like something like that.

[themudduck]

I took a video today using an Insta 360GO camera mounted on the outboard pylon. Unfortunately the video timed out before the landing, but its still pretty cool. The 360GO camera stabilizes the horizon which produces some pretty cool effects when rolling and doing other maneuvers. I recommend turning the sound OFF because of the wind noise.