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New Quad all put together and moving but wont fly???

Discussion in 'Multirotor' started by sinistercad, Aug 20, 2012.

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    Hey guys, So I got all my supplies today for my quad and assembled it all together!  Read through the instructions and got the thing working, well sort of.  It will not leave the ground, it kind of dances everywhere and acts like it cant level itself?  I've done the motor calibration, and trim sets and checked all motor placement and rotations many times and it all seems square.  Let me know if you guys have any help you can give me.
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    Give it more throttle :p.
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    I sent you a PM yesterday saying to call me.  It's a lot easier to talk about your problem on the phone than sending twenty emails.  :)

    ...Tiger
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    Sorry Tiger I got busy yesterday and couldn't respond.  Matt gave me some inside tips and I got this thing flying finally.  It has a little bit of TBE but nothing major.  Only problem I'm having now is that it glitches everynow and then and will flip itself over and so far has used up all my props and I think killed one of my new motors already from it taking a hard landing  :-[  Oh well I'm learning slowly.
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    Just about every time I've seen the "glitch and flip" problem for no reason, it has turned out to be that one of the motors has lost its retaining ring.  Pull up on the prop shaft on each motor and see if one of them doesn't rise up.  I know it sounds crazy, but it happens all the time.  I'm almost ready to fire up my CNC for a solution to this problem.

    ...Tiger
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    Checked them all and they all seem fine?  I had to readjust the shaft on one of them since it was pushed down in shipping, other than that they seem fine.  I'm going to order extra motors and props just in case.

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