Elev8 v2 problems again
I've recently replaced all four esc's(That I bought locally) and #4 motor(2 motors so far). Replacing those parts still didn't solve the problem of it randomly flipping to the left because of the #4 motor stopping. So I emailed hoverfly tech support explaining my theory of whether or not a bad esc could burn out a port on the hoverfly open board and if they had any way I could test it before condemning the board as being bad.
Well that was over two weeks now with no response. I got a DragonFLy32 that I found local thinking that it may solve the problem. After getting it all setup and testing each of the motors I discovered the new #4 esc is bad!
I should say that I bought the first replacement motor and esc from parallax before I started buying parts locally.
So...I'm wondering what the h caused my original problem to begin with? I'm starting to think now that it was a bad flight controller from the start.
Has anyone else have an esc or hoverfly open go bad?
I'm at a loss as what to do next. It's getting expensive and I've not been able to fly without some sort problem causing a crash.
-dan
Well that was over two weeks now with no response. I got a DragonFLy32 that I found local thinking that it may solve the problem. After getting it all setup and testing each of the motors I discovered the new #4 esc is bad!
I should say that I bought the first replacement motor and esc from parallax before I started buying parts locally.
So...I'm wondering what the h caused my original problem to begin with? I'm starting to think now that it was a bad flight controller from the start.
Has anyone else have an esc or hoverfly open go bad?
I'm at a loss as what to do next. It's getting expensive and I've not been able to fly without some sort problem causing a crash.
-dan
Comments
Here's one data point.... Had one ESC fail. It was a fairly early failure, maybe 20-30 mins of flight time on it. Originally worked fine. 1st failure resulted in a flip from about 8 ft up. It behaved normally afterward. 2nd failure from about 30 ft up. It behaved erratically after that and I changed it out (Parallax sent me a new one). That was about a year and a half ago. No problems since.
Never had a problem w/ my HoverFly Open. Doesn't seem like a flight controller could take out an ESC.
-Russ
-dan
I agree that it's a bit elusive to resolve some of these problems between the OPEN, ESCs and motors.
Did you properly configure the Hoverfly OPEN in their Firmware Update software?
Let me know. We'll get you in the air even if we have to replace the whole electronic system.
Ken Gracey
Yes, I did that before hooking up any of the esc's.
As an automotive/diesel tech my training has been to diagnose things in a logical manner, shotgunning parts at a problem is frowned upon(and expensive) and only used as last resort to get things up running again. I'm still not 100% sure of whats happening but whatever it is-is always on the #4 port,esc, or motor.
I thought that if I could test each port individually I could be sure of what(and where) the problem is, and if possible to move the #4 functions to an unused port. But there's the worry of bricking it with my own code. Since I haven't found any code examples, I'll leave it alone.
-dan
I'm trying a flip32 flight controller this time but I'm having problems with setting it up, mainly from the lack of documentation for clean flight and the lack of time to really sit down to dig into it. I have the motors all turning the right directions and I can test run the motors with the software.
The problem I haven’t figured out is setting up my DX8 to work with the flip32(cleanflight) combination. I do plan on starting another thread here about my upgrades and part numbers once I've have everything figured out and working without crashing.
-dan