5" Chameleon maiden after rebuild, toying with Split Mini footage
No special flying video, just a 'maiden'/debug flight. If you are looking for nice acro/freesyle, look elsewhere :) First part is banging on the sticks and cruising around to feel how the quad behaves and to get some useful data in the blackbox log. Around 3m20 there is crash recover in action, at the end the damaged prop gives up. I received new frame parts from Armattan under their lifetime warranty programme and rebuilt my 5" quad. First test was a hover test in the backyard, where one ESC on the 4-in-1 board decided to let the magic smoke escape and cook a motor. Or the other way around, a motor did something weird and blew the ESC. Why? Don't know. Load was not all that high, I was just hovering. I decided not to scrap the motor but to rewind it instead. This was my first time doing such 'advanced repair', so I just had to regain thrust in the quad. New years' eve was coming, so flying in a local park was impossible; with goggles on I would have been the perfect target for 13-year old kids with fireworks. Therefore I chose a quiet and empty spot deep in the forest. And for gaining thrust I did not perform any tricks, just cruising around a bit rough on the sticks. It is too cold and wet, and it is very hard to see all the small branches in the FPV video feed. So far the new ESC, rewound motor and rebuilt quad seems to fly well. Still more noise on the roll axis than I think is normal but it seems to handle it well. Motors come down absolutely cool and the quad keeps it's heading and handles propwash well. Also, this video was made to play around a little with Davinci Resolve. Doing basic color and lens correction on the Runcam Split footage, trying to integrate and time-match video from the blackbox explorer, etcetera. I am quite new to all that stuff.
No special flying video, just a 'maiden'/debug flight. If you are looking for nice acro/freesyle, look elsewhere :) First part is banging on the sticks and cruising around to feel how the quad behaves and to get some useful data in the blackbox log. Around 3m20 there is crash recover in action, at the end the damaged prop gives up. I received new frame parts from Armattan under their lifetime warranty programme and rebuilt my 5" quad. First test was a hover test in the backyard, where one ESC on the 4-in-1 board decided to let the magic smoke escape and cook a motor. Or the other way around, a motor did something weird and blew the ESC. Why? Don't know. Load was not all that high, I was just hovering. I decided not to scrap the motor but to rewind it instead. This was my first time doing such 'advanced repair', so I just had to regain thrust in the quad. New years' eve was coming, so flying in a local park was impossible; with goggles on I would have been the perfect target for 13-year old kids with fireworks. Therefore I chose a quiet and empty spot deep in the forest. And for gaining thrust I did not perform any tricks, just cruising around a bit rough on the sticks. It is too cold and wet, and it is very hard to see all the small branches in the FPV video feed. So far the new ESC, rewound motor and rebuilt quad seems to fly well. Still more noise on the roll axis than I think is normal but it seems to handle it well. Motors come down absolutely cool and the quad keeps it's heading and handles propwash well. Also, this video was made to play around a little with Davinci Resolve. Doing basic color and lens correction on the Runcam Split footage, trying to integrate and time-match video from the blackbox explorer, etcetera. I am quite new to all that stuff.