GAUI 500X

Is he a quad flyer?

It's your fault, you had to go buy this thing that only works outside and now look at what happened.....

My GoPro FPV setup will be here Monday, guess we better plan for yet another week of rain........

I know.  If I had purchased a Blade mQX or something else made for indoors it would be sunny outside and they would cancel another indoor fly-and-drive at the Lincoln school.

I quickly flew five batteries in the lull before the next rain storm this evening.  I tried switching to the manual mode a few times and it is much more agile and helicopter-like in manual mode, not that you cannot fly fast in attitude mode.  I also did a bunch of pirouettes in both directions in attitude mode which is something I was not comfortable doing with the GU-344.  Once the wind kicked up really good and the trees were waving all around and the quad fought it very well.

Then I had to try a couple of the DJI antics like pushing the quad up and down with my hand.  It bounced right back to the original hover height nicely from both directions.  Next I pushed it away from me and that also worked as demonstrated in the DJI videos, I just didn't have someone to push it to so I brought it back with the radio.

I ran down two of the batteries until the battery fail-safe kicked in and if lowered itself relatively gently to the ground in both instances.

I do not have a knob on my DX7SE so I had the base attitude mode gain set to 130%.  After the first couple batteries I upped the gain to 140% and that feels a little better yet.  I think I will experiment with the gain some more as soon as I get some clear weather again.

I also climbed very high and cut the throttle.  On my GU-344 doing this was scary as it would always start oscillating and getting unstable.  The Naza tolerates this way better and I couple times I almost cut the throttle completely letting the quad drop very fast then punch out without any difficulty.

For the money I can't imaging anyone producing a better quad or hex controller than the Naza.

GPS - Yes!  Noah was big time into quads.  That's what he used to roundup all those animals.

PP - I'd suggest mounting it on a helmet for the next couple months and just make videos while you're looking out the window.  You can hold your heli up in front of you and make motor sounds.  We'll tell you how good it looks and what a great pilot you are.

...Tiger

While looking for something I found a pair of brand new still in their box 11.1 volt, 20C, 6400 mAh LiPo batteries.  I wonder if I can use them on my GAUI-500X?

Don't wonder just try it ... They sound heavy but nothin ventured nothin gained, right

It looks like the specs for the max recommended flying weight on the GAUI 500X with a three cell is 1700 gram. Have you strapped the battery on and see what the all up weight is?

I don't have a scale to measure the batteries weight but the box says 17.6 ounces which is 499 grams.  Yesterday I have flown my ThunderPower 2700 mAh LiPo which is certainly not as big as these 6400's but the GAUI handled that very well.

I will make a adapter if I have the connectors and give it a go.  The batteries have Traxxas connectors and I don't want to chop them off so I can still use them in my RC cars and trucks.

I see some blue sky outside but I think.

Same here too, but I think a handy raincoat is still a must up here. 

Like wOOd said, give her a try, you will soon know if it's to heavy for it.

If it handles it 2 feet off the ground it will handle it 200 feet off the ground.

I hope it works.  I think I would get close to 30 minutes flight time since I am getting about 10 minutes with the 2250 mAh batteries now.

We were speaking of LEDs and light switching in this thread earlier because I want to add some headlights/searchlights to my quad. There were so many great suggestions and links and today I learned that Tiger has something in the works but I'll let him post about that. Coincidentally I stumbled upon a link in a YouTube reply to these guys called RC Lights (http://www.rc-lights.com/). They have some cool stuff that both the flying and surface guys can use.

RC-LIGHTS #5324 NIGHTFLY 14 LED System:


RC-LIGHTS #5024 911STROBE POLICE 14 LED Controller:

I got a few flights in yesterday.

Using a 2700 mAh 3S battery:



They can't all be happy landings:

Have you tried the large batteries yet.
That quad can sure sit still when you want it to now. You using both flight modes while flying it?

Hi Bill - I just this minute was coming online to report on the large batteries.  The answer is yes!  The quad can lift them without any problem, but my mounting position was horrible because the battery is so big I was unable to get it mounted anywhere near a decent CG and the quad does a oscillation as it fights to compensate for the battery offset.  Additionally my battery strap barely gets around these bad boys so that plus the shaking didn't make me want to do any tricks.  Of course it's raining again so I was just testing under the porch so not a lot of room anyway.  I am going to be completely redoing my wiring and reconsidering my camera mount so while I am at that I will revisit my battery mounting and position.

Have you ever seen the Roswell Flight Test Crew's video where they are spraying their quad at the car wash?  At first I thought that was odd, but now it is looking like a great idea!

The quad hovers steady like a rock and can hold in some pretty strong wind.  I fly in both modes but I am still relying heavily on the attitude mode and that is the mode I use most.

Cruising at the park.

So that's where you were, I was wondering. I ended up at Spalding around the same time. No video as my GoPro just showed up and now I have to build a mount for it. Cool flying, looks super stable and easy, your running out of excuses to put a video transmitter on that thing  ;D

That 900 Mhz Lawmate 1000 mw unit is looking pretty good to me.  I'm undecided on the viewer, don't know if I want goggles or a screen.