I have this board in a T1 vTol. 18 months in, it's hovering but not FW flight as of yet. I am used to Ardu and Matek too, so . . . . . . . it's got a good loud beeper. Which I used to locate the plane after the first FW test. It was a VERY long walk, don't point the plane at the ocean is all I'm saying Mr Newton :)
Great overview. With so much flexibility in configuring, it may be hard to decide what could be your next fun build to pair with this flight controller.
In 4+1 planes, sometimes its more appropriate to use sepparate batteries setup. E.g a battery pack for the hovering motors and another pack for the pusher motor. Is such a setup possible with this FC ?
The board is designed for only one battery but no reason you couldn't bypass the PDB with the second battery. Would need to make sure the grounds are all common.
extra servo amps is good for tilt motors I guess. Makes sense for a quadplane but I like the single-board lightweight f405 wingV2 all on one board and feel it has enough pads for 3 motors imho. I have yet to complete and fly my Dart tilt motor vtol though, hope the v2 has enough servo amps.
i've same FC and i am working on Vtol (4+1) with inav 7.1, i can share with you my experience with pleasure. I finished the first part of the Quad with all settings waitting for the finishine of the plane construction..;-)
Hello!I would like to see a VTOL variant with rotary motors, as an example-Hee Wing T1 Ranger VTOL-they use rotary servos to switch from vertical takeoff mode to horizontal flight mode (and as an option-not with two rotary motors, but with all four at once).
Will this flight controller work for standard fixed wing? I am looking at this Fc over the standard F405 fixed wing due to F405 FW having 5amps continuous and 6amps peak, while the VTOL has 8 amps continuous and 10amps peak. I think I need the higher BEC values since the Super Tucano I have ordered has 6 13g servers, 1 25g server, and retracts, and FPV with pan and tilt. Sound about right?
Hi Andrew, I'm having vtol problem with this fc on skywalker x8 with mission planner. I cannot get it to hover. The skywalker wing flipped over every time I increased power. I would like to see how it works out for you.
Andrew. Get hold of a Bixler and strap 4 motors onto it via a couple of carbon tubes mounted on the wings. The standard Bixler motor remains as the plane motor. You do it first and I’ll follow you
@@AndrewNewton thanks for the info Sir. I've bought a lot of Matek f411 previously but it's kinda sad that future Inav 8 will not support it anymore. I hope Inav 7 will have complete VTOL support before they move to version 8.
i stopped buying matek when they stopped supporting and started cheating the elrs team. Matek is no longer elrs supported product but Matek tells their buyers they should use another elrs target instead to get any updates. Imagine this second vendor will stop supporting then the whole mess starts again. I have bought speedy bee fc instead and sold my old matek flight controllers I hate to see this kind of cheating.
so they cheated by using ELRS engineering on their own ELRS receivers? I don't get how you'd say a Matek FC won't be supported nor updatable with iNav or Betaflight (or Ardu), and just plug your 3rd party ELRS receiver into any uart? I am genuinely unaware of this situation, have used Matek for 7 years with great results, but I am still using Crossfire. I have a new ELRS radio and considering the switch but would be using 3rd party ELRS receivers not Matek. I have a SpeedybeeFC in the box but it is a heavy inefficient looking thing in comparison.
your videos are always great excited to watch it have a great day 😁
Thank you so much. This is not the most interesting I guess
I have this board in a T1 vTol. 18 months in, it's hovering but not FW flight as of yet. I am used to Ardu and Matek too, so . . . . . . . it's got a good loud beeper. Which I used to locate the plane after the first FW test. It was a VERY long walk, don't point the plane at the ocean is all I'm saying Mr Newton :)
Haha, a loud beeper will be essential for my field
Great overview. With so much flexibility in configuring, it may be hard to decide what could be your next fun build to pair with this flight controller.
Can't wait to see your Quadplane Andrew....Looks like your Winter has arrived....🤔😳🇬🇧
Chilly but sunny. Looks like I'll have to give the quad plane a go
In 4+1 planes, sometimes its more appropriate to use sepparate batteries setup. E.g a battery pack for the hovering motors and another pack for the pusher motor. Is such a setup possible with this FC ?
The board is designed for only one battery but no reason you couldn't bypass the PDB with the second battery. Would need to make sure the grounds are all common.
extra servo amps is good for tilt motors I guess. Makes sense for a quadplane but I like the single-board lightweight f405 wingV2 all on one board and feel it has enough pads for 3 motors imho. I have yet to complete and fly my Dart tilt motor vtol though, hope the v2 has enough servo amps.
i've same FC and i am working on Vtol (4+1) with inav 7.1, i can share with you my experience with pleasure. I finished the first part of the Quad with all settings waitting for the finishine of the plane construction..;-)
Hello!I would like to see a VTOL variant with rotary motors, as an example-Hee Wing T1 Ranger VTOL-they use rotary servos to switch from vertical takeoff mode to horizontal flight mode (and as an option-not with two rotary motors, but with all four at once).
Interesting idea, maybe more complicated than the usual VTOL configurations
Will this flight controller work for standard fixed wing? I am looking at this Fc over the standard F405 fixed wing due to F405 FW having 5amps continuous and 6amps peak, while the VTOL has 8 amps continuous and 10amps peak. I think I need the higher BEC values since the Super Tucano I have ordered has 6 13g servers, 1 25g server, and retracts, and FPV with pan and tilt. Sound about right?
Yes good idea.
This board would work well for higher demand models.
Hi Andrew, I'm having vtol problem with this fc on skywalker x8 with mission planner. I cannot get it to hover. The skywalker wing flipped over every time I increased power. I would like to see how it works out for you.
I'll be using INAV so might not be much help
Do we need to have ESC for each motor ? Is it possible to use 4in1 ESC?
Should be fine as long as the current limit is respected.
Andrew. Get hold of a Bixler and strap 4 motors onto it via a couple of carbon tubes mounted on the wings. The standard Bixler motor remains as the plane motor. You do it first and I’ll follow you
Ha, not really tempted by a full quad plane but we will see
@@AndrewNewton ah, but the FC is built for a full quad plane; pretty please?
Hi Sir Andrew. Can a Speedybee F405 Wing be used for VTOL too?
Yes, that's a feature of INAV or Ardupilot, not so much which board you use
@@AndrewNewton thanks for the info Sir. I've bought a lot of Matek f411 previously but it's kinda sad that future Inav 8 will not support it anymore. I hope Inav 7 will have complete VTOL support before they move to version 8.
No switched 9v/12v for VTX use ???
Rewatch the video for the answer
Hey, I am a bit confused. Can I use ELRS with F405 VTOL?
Yes INAV, Ardupilot and Matek all support ELRS
You just watch ya fingers with those VTOL's Andrew.........
Indeed, they come right at you some times
@@AndrewNewton : I'm sure that ya fingers remembers the last one...
i stopped buying matek when they stopped supporting and started cheating the elrs team.
Matek is no longer elrs supported product but Matek tells their buyers they should use another elrs target instead to get any updates.
Imagine this second vendor will stop supporting then the whole mess starts again.
I have bought speedy bee fc instead and sold my old matek flight controllers
I hate to see this kind of cheating.
so they cheated by using ELRS engineering on their own ELRS receivers? I don't get how you'd say a Matek FC won't be supported nor updatable with iNav or Betaflight (or Ardu), and just plug your 3rd party ELRS receiver into any uart? I am genuinely unaware of this situation, have used Matek for 7 years with great results, but I am still using Crossfire. I have a new ELRS radio and considering the switch but would be using 3rd party ELRS receivers not Matek. I have a SpeedybeeFC in the box but it is a heavy inefficient looking thing in comparison.