Chameleon FPV - New Shoes
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The last few weeks has been pretty awful. Still need to upload a video of the flights I made while I was driving to Las Vegas last week.The last few weeks has been pretty awful. Still need to upload a video of the flights I made while I was driving to Las Vegas last week. During one of the flights at an abandoned water park on i15 just outside of Barstow I ended up wrecking Sprint (this Chameleon). At first I thought it was just a broken FPV lens, however I discovered later I also broke the main plate. I rebuilt it in my hotel room as I was a bit stuck. Cylinder 4 on my car lost compression and I was more concerned about having money to repair that than I was about drinking and gambling. Before I left I'd ordered some Armattan Oomph Titan 2306 2450kv motors. So I decided to put those on Sprint. Tested motor direction, everything seemed good. Took it out for a test flight, plugged in the pack. ESCs made noise but the flight controller wasn't powering on. I thought possibly the crash also killed my DYS F4. Brought it home, started to tear it down and found that my FPV camera cables were pinched between the top plate and camera plate. Fixed the wires and tested, everything was working! Well, until the following day when I took it out for a test flight. Severe interference on the fpv feed. Check the screw lengths and everything seemed good. Brought it home, swapped the fpv cam, the vtx, and the flight controller. No change. It ended up being that all the motor screws on the inside of the frame were touching the windings. The screws were maybe 1/2 a mm to 1mm too long.
4 hours of tear down and troubleshooting just to find out I'd been on the right path at the start. The first place I flew at today was fun, though I didn't push hard at all. I've never flown there and only flew 2 packs while I was there. Part of it was because I still wasn't sure everything was in good order with the quad and partly cause I really can't afford repairs. I'll head back over there at some point, now that I know where it is. I finished up at home to fly a place I felt comfortable with. Everything appears to be working well. I just need to get the other Chameleon fixed.
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