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FrozenGate by Avery

World smallest QUADCOPTER for Promotion Price

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Even after normal calibration I find it helpful to do a manual calibration.
 





Speedy78 said:
Someone upload a flight video!
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I´ve uploaded one in the first post some days ago ;)

Will do one more in the evening. After bending the arms of the mainboard, mine is very stable for it´s size. My girl is able to fly it with no experience (of course without turn-arounds).
 
Glad to help. I'm just passing on info I've learned from others (such as Speedy!).

Manual calibration seems to help these a lot (the Hubsan line of quads uses the same flight controller that this and the ProtoX uses, they even use the proprietary Hubsan radio protocols) so I recommend following Speedy's advice and running calibration on a measured level surface.

Like many of you I initially had a lot of trouble achieving a hover as my tiny quad needed tons of trim and calibration. When I first powered it on it zipped right across the room in less than 2seconds. It took me about five or six full battery flight times to get it trimmed to the point that it would stop flying wildly across the room with no navigational stick input. I still have to adjust trim regularly, but that is mostly because on my Hubsan I have multiple nonidentical batteries which have different weight distributions. Your ProtoX lookalikes shouldn't have to worry about that but you will still need to do adjustments because the arms are not rigid and tiny nicks in the props will change the thrust profile.

The best advice I can give is remember that the air bouncing off the ground has a profound effect on these tiny quads and in order to break free of that and see how it is actually handling you need to get about three feet off the ground. You'll want a fairly large room to work in initially, 20x20 would be ideal for short (<10sec) flights while trying to trim it out. If you can get to a barren parking lot you'll be able to trim it out very quickly and safely. From that point on you can get it stable enough to fly well in small rooms.

By the way, I have the latest generation of Hubsan transmitter, and if these knockoffs are using the same boards inside the start up procedure matters greatly. If you turn on the quad before the transmitter is turned on it resets the calibration and trim on the transmitter to default, every time. So turn on the transmitter first, then turn on the quad. To shut down turn off the quad and then the transmitter. Calibration procedure is still the same as before; turn on transmitter, turn on quad, place quad on level surface, press left stick to the bottom right all the way, move the right stick back and forth between full left and full right fairly quickly until the lights blink.
 
Sig ---
Thanks for the info. I knew I had to lift out of ground effect
but it's almost gone by then. Full control seems to have no effect.
I will try retriming. Transmitter ON first -- my other stuff works
the other way.
HMike

10PM --- My quad doesn't work that way. If I turn the trans on first,
it wont bind and fly. I did try the calib process and I did get better
flights tonight but the lights are always flashing but something worked better.
 
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It is very possible these knock offs use different firmware than the legit ProtoX's. Oh well, glad the recal helped some.
 
Alternating blue lights would indicate it's searching for a radio. All lights flashing should indicate you are low on cell voltage and need to land before the cutoff.
 
The poor little quad became intermittent on the front left
motor. Looks like an intermittent connection -- sometimes it works!
I was starting to get it to hover but at the end, it wouldn't turn
left or right - just straight into a neighbor's yard. I ordered a new one,
just the quad -- the transmitter seems OK.
I can survive with my V911 helies!!!
HMike
 
Shame it hasn't lasted long, HMike. I'd take a look at the traces and wires on the arms; that's the weak point.
 
Just received mine! It's tons of fun for such a small thing. Mine was surprisingly stable, too, flies like a champ.
 
Mine came and I plugged the charger in and the connector broke off. I soldered that back on and when I fired up the copter it shot straight up and crashed into the ceiling at full speed. The battery connectors and the battery broke off and now it sits in my drawer.

But all is not lost on quads for me. In the time it took to get here off the slow boat from china DJI came out with the Phantom 2 Vision+. That came about a week later and all is good now. I doubt I will resurrect the mini.
 
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Did you just swing the throttle all the way up and not control it? That's like slamming on the gas trying get to park a car lol.
 
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