First videos with my new Typhoon

[M@d_Hunter]

Hello all,

Here are my first videos taken from my new Typhoon (not FPV). Video are "raw", I'm not familiar with video editor so just uploaded to Youtube. (Comments about the construction are here: http://aeroquad.com/entry.php?284-My-Typhoon)

2 indoor:



2 outdoor:




and the best one

[Mikro]

NICE! Congrats on getting it up so quick! I've never tried to record a flip... I should try it myself.

[Sniperp]

try adjusting the rotationSpeedFactor in the config. Lowering the number will allow a faster spin and lose less altitude, I have mine lowered to .5 and its a pretty quick flip and spin now i may try even lower to try and spin it onto of itself.

[wooden]

Keep in mind you'll have to retune PIDs if you adjust the rotation speed factor. It scales the gyroscope data going into the PID controller.

[Sniperp]

I didn't touch mine and it still flys fine in rate mode, I just need to figure out to have it Change trims when I switch between rate and stabilize mode.

[wooden]

Weird, I tried 0.8 and 1.2 on my mini and it wouldn't fly in rate mode, it oscillated a bunch. Went back to 1.0 and it was rock solid again. Might just be because it's such a tiny craft, don't know.

[Honk]

Wait a minute. At least with the old firmware (don't know if this part has been changed) there were 2 things to adjust: gain for gyro feedback (P) and transmitter roll/pitch-scaling-to-wanted-rotation-speed. I changed the latter which made it a lot more responsive to stick input, but it had nothing with PID tuning to do since it's just the scaling between input and set values. That made it really simple to get tight flips (although you need to practice a lot if doing it close to ground).

[wooden]

The dev branch has what is called "rotationSpeedFactor," it's a variable that the gyro data is multiplied by before going into the PID controller in rate mode. It's not used in attitude mode. I'm not sure of its exact purpose as I couldn't change it much without seriously affecting the flight characteristics of my mini and without a wireless modem on that thing, changing PIDs is a hassle, so I've avoided it.

You can adjust this rotationSpeedFactor on the rate mode PID page in the newer configurator versions. I've managed to change it using old configurator (the latest one built for OSX), it just shows up as an un-labeled variable under the gyro PIDs.

[MikeD]

You can label that variable by altering the plot statement in the old configurator.ini file.

[M@d_Hunter]

Thank you I will try to change some parameters... The thing is that my other quad uses V1.7 hardware with 2.0.1 software and I fly only in accro. So a lot of things are different with the Typhoon !!