@Oliverl96 wrote:
Hi,
I am about to take my helicopter out for its first flight soon, and would appreciate if someone would take the time to look through the param file attached, to see if anything looks out of the ordinary, as this is the first time I have set up an ardupilot flight controller.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KmRR3uC9njm1n5b1TEb5Puyupkkm0wCR/view?usp=sharing
I have read the wiki and followed Chris’ setup videos.
The helicopter is an ALZRC Fast Devil 420 (Goblin Clone) with 420 mm main blades. The swash plate uses three servos with the elevator servo in the front. Should the collective be reversed? All cyclic, collective and yaw inputs function correctly and the heli compensates in the right direction when moving it by hand in stabilize mode.
I have leveled the swash plate and configured the heli to have -3 deg to +12 deg of pitch.
The ESC has a built in governor which will be calibrated before the flight on the ground. The RSC Setpoint is set at 20 % in the uploaded param file, but after the governor has been calibrated, I intend to set it to 75 % for the first flight.
During the first flights I will try to make sure the blades are tracking, and then adjust the IM_COL_STAB parameters in stabilize mode so the heli hovers nicely at mid stick. Then proceed with tuning following the guide on the wiki.
I would really appreciate any comments/tips if I am missing something or straight up doing something wrong, as this is my first experience with ardupilot. If anyone has any PID setting suggestions for this class of heli I am all ears as well.
Thanks in advance.
/Oliver
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