I have a p3p.. I was flying in a very right area on my porch the other night and my quad clipped the side of one of the pilers on my porch and fell down slightly grazed the wooden railing and fell about 6 feet to the ground. I stopped the motors right away as they were squeezing when they hit the ground. I have flown many many times and have never crashed either one of my drones. I got too comfortable and pushed my limits and it def was a nice wake up call..
However I did get very lucky, the drone drone sufferd zero damage, not even a scratch, all the was broke wa the one prop that clipped the piller. Other than that the drone the camera gimbal and all the sensors seem to be reading just fine and working fine. I replaced the props took it out for a spin and all seems good.
I'm just wondering if since It took such a fall, is it a good thing to recalibrate the IMU anyways? What would you do? I have never calibrated the drone since I got it months ago, only have calibrated the compass.
As I said I went into the sensors on the go app, the accelerometer X-is at 0 and Y- is at 0 and Z-is at 1.00.. As I had the quad just sitting on a flat table ...I moved the quad in my hands back and forth side to side and diagonal slowly to make sure the accelerometer was ready fully and correctly and all seems good. The compass is averaging just over 1400 as usual. The gyro I'm not sure how to read, but I think they all stayed at low numbers if not O when it was just sitting on the table..
Like I said all the sensors seem to be reading well. It seemed to fly well. But I would feel like because of it taking such a fall, and because I have never done an IMU Calibration that maybe it's time? Or should I "if it's not broke don't fix it" sorta deal.. And leave it be?
I do get every once and while a compass error, but usually all I gotta do is turn it off, move 2-10 feet one direction and power back up and the compass error goes away.. This doesn't happen much and has done that even before the "crash" if that's what you wanna call it.
Also once and a great while the gimbal will glitch out when I boot it up, like it will be off center and will very slowly make its way back to center, but if I power it down and back up the gimbal will be fine.. Again this is something that would happen before the crash, and again was something that would just happen every and again and didn't do it very often.. So I guess what I'm Saying is enough evidence that should grant me a IMU Calibration? Or should I just leave it be cuz it does seem to fly just fine, even After the "crash" or should I be on the safe side and just do the calibration. I just don't want to make anything worse if it's not bad to begin with is what I'm getting at..
Also, I live in a huge open field and now that it's winter out its super cold where I live and I wanted to try to fly my drone outside, but from me standing inside looking out my big kitchen window.. Is there an antenna I can make or buy that would allow me to have around the same range as I would normally, but from flying from inside the house , or possibly from inside a vehicle? This way I can keep warm, yet still fly the quad and enjoy it. I wasn't looking at going horribly far, maybe just 1000-2000feet distance I would be happy with that.
But whenever I would try to fly from inside the signal would be super poor even at 10 or so feet away. Obviously lightbridge signal can't penetrate through walls and glass very well, so I'm looking for some sorta ground station or antenna station that can be placed outside along with the drone, yet the controller being inside with me controlling it.
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However I did get very lucky, the drone drone sufferd zero damage, not even a scratch, all the was broke wa the one prop that clipped the piller. Other than that the drone the camera gimbal and all the sensors seem to be reading just fine and working fine. I replaced the props took it out for a spin and all seems good.
I'm just wondering if since It took such a fall, is it a good thing to recalibrate the IMU anyways? What would you do? I have never calibrated the drone since I got it months ago, only have calibrated the compass.
As I said I went into the sensors on the go app, the accelerometer X-is at 0 and Y- is at 0 and Z-is at 1.00.. As I had the quad just sitting on a flat table ...I moved the quad in my hands back and forth side to side and diagonal slowly to make sure the accelerometer was ready fully and correctly and all seems good. The compass is averaging just over 1400 as usual. The gyro I'm not sure how to read, but I think they all stayed at low numbers if not O when it was just sitting on the table..
Like I said all the sensors seem to be reading well. It seemed to fly well. But I would feel like because of it taking such a fall, and because I have never done an IMU Calibration that maybe it's time? Or should I "if it's not broke don't fix it" sorta deal.. And leave it be?
I do get every once and while a compass error, but usually all I gotta do is turn it off, move 2-10 feet one direction and power back up and the compass error goes away.. This doesn't happen much and has done that even before the "crash" if that's what you wanna call it.
Also once and a great while the gimbal will glitch out when I boot it up, like it will be off center and will very slowly make its way back to center, but if I power it down and back up the gimbal will be fine.. Again this is something that would happen before the crash, and again was something that would just happen every and again and didn't do it very often.. So I guess what I'm Saying is enough evidence that should grant me a IMU Calibration? Or should I just leave it be cuz it does seem to fly just fine, even After the "crash" or should I be on the safe side and just do the calibration. I just don't want to make anything worse if it's not bad to begin with is what I'm getting at..
Also, I live in a huge open field and now that it's winter out its super cold where I live and I wanted to try to fly my drone outside, but from me standing inside looking out my big kitchen window.. Is there an antenna I can make or buy that would allow me to have around the same range as I would normally, but from flying from inside the house , or possibly from inside a vehicle? This way I can keep warm, yet still fly the quad and enjoy it. I wasn't looking at going horribly far, maybe just 1000-2000feet distance I would be happy with that.
But whenever I would try to fly from inside the signal would be super poor even at 10 or so feet away. Obviously lightbridge signal can't penetrate through walls and glass very well, so I'm looking for some sorta ground station or antenna station that can be placed outside along with the drone, yet the controller being inside with me controlling it.
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