Well it went from bad to OK to worse.
Short rundown -
I finally got the stock program reloaded -
Once I had the camera centered, I wanted to try the pitch fully - no dice. It only goes backward about 20 degrees and will not pitch forward. Either way, it was good to go as a straight on shot, I don't have FPV hooked up yet so its not critical for the pitch issue to be fixed just yet. Go outside and set up for a test flight.
Now I should mention that earlier in the day I did upgrade the NAZA to 4.02
Plug everything in and let it start to warm up. I notice that phantom is flashing yellow. I let it set for a minute or so with no change so I thought this had something to do with re calibrating the compass. So I followed the right procedure and got the first green and then the light went out. Set the phantom down and let it finish grabbing satellite signal.
Everything looked good so I closed up the battery door and started the gopro. Took off and let it hover at about 10 ft to watch the gimball, looked good, spun around and slowly lifted over the garage and neighbors tree.
As I was spinning around to complete the "loop" test I was doing - it happened.
Phantom took off to its left at a high rate of speed and shot down into the ground. Great. Good news is I recovered it, bad news is the phantom body took a hit. The gimball and gopro survived(although its missing some of the mounting balls). Add me to the list of flyaways. Been trying to figure out if I did anything wrong?
- Should I not have upgraded the NAZA, last version was rock steady for me
- Does the Gimball power wire interfere somehow with the antenna for the transmitter or GPS? Should that be shielded?
- I'm going to test the motors today and mount the new blades to try a low level flight test without the gimball.
Thoughts?