Rth nearly killed my plane on its maiden! Accidentally flicked autopilot switch and as soon as it took off plane went rocking side to side and tried to climb immediately. Luckily I managed to jus bring it down on one of its rocks to the side and it only broke prop..lesson to check autopilot switch

Originally Posted by alemaoo

Hi guys, I am setting up a zeph and and got it working using the elevon mixing on the dosd v1 allright.

my doubt is : on custom settings menu AIL2 should point to which channel?

The elevon vtail mix I choose option 3 ( was the only one to get elev and ail commands to work as it should). What are options 1 and 2 for?

On the servo direction test my left aileron (pwm1) jitters a little and the other one does not show any movements. I undestand that Servo Direction Test should bank left and nose up if not mistaken.

All my dosd settings are yet the same I used for the ez*. Does anyone have the good numbers for a zeph?

Thanks and happy new year to everyone. Thanks to Daniel that has made our flights/life safer and happy .

Alemaoo

Hey Alemaoo,

I'd be interested in what you find out. I'm having a little difficulty with RTH on my wing as well. There's an added complexity on mine since I have FY-20 doing the mixing (I use this for easy hand launches).

My Tx is set to not mix and neither is DOSD. This morning I turned on RTH and it went inverted, almost losing control.

No it should bank right. Right aileron up

Originally Posted by Vantasstic

Happy 15000th Post!!!!

Am I a jerk or what??? Okay...now I'm going to flying with my Skywalker loaded with Dragon stuff!!! Talk with you later this afternoon...

Grrrrrr i wish I'd thought of that.

You deserve #15,000 Van, you are the top support dude thank you very much from all of us, you help make Dragon community what it is

dgpilot, IŽll share what find out. My radio is normal and the dosd is doing the mix.

rsands2801, thanks for the input. I will have to check it very closely. I know that to have rth working, I must have servo test going to the expected side.

Thanks guys.

Van, the manual did not clarify my question, in fact, got a little bit more confused.

Thanks for pointing the way to the manual. I havenŽt been here for a long time and then, there was no manual, just us in the topic.

Alemaoo

Originally Posted by Vantasstic

What plane/type of plane are you flying. If it's an inherently unstabe platform you may need an IMU. Most planes don't need an IMU and fly great using just GPS stabilization.

It sounds like your step gain is to big, thus it bounces back and forth with each reaction getting worse than before. If you've adjusted the other gain settings I'd recommend a default reset to factory settings (on the main menu I believe). Then default ROT and ROC step gain is 2.0.

First, verify the ROTStepgain to 2.0 and reduce the the ROCStepgain to 0. Fly away from you. Flip on RTH, watch the plane. If it's turning to slowly increase the step gain a little, if it's turning to harshly decrease the step gain a little. I'd recommend a change of .5 at a time. Fly and repeat until satisfied. Now turn up the ROCStepgain to 2.0. Flip on AP and watch what it does. It it starts porpoising you need to reduce the ROC step gain, if it's to low in keeping the plane level increase the ROC step gain....again in .5 increments. It might take several flights to do this.

Thankyou Van, I too thought that a reset is needed, so I have done that and will wait for flying time one evening after work.

So generally you leave the aprotgain and aprocgain settings as default and mainly adjust the rocstepgain and rotstepgain settings??

I hooked up my DOSD to my D receiver today. And i noticed the UHF receiver got power from the DOSD. I guess thats the right voltage right? I power my DOSD with a 3cell lipo.

Originally Posted by zkilzz

I hooked up my DOSD to my D receiver today. And i noticed the UHF receiver got power from the DOSD. I guess thats the right voltage right? I power my DOSD with a 3cell lipo.

the servos controlled by DOSD on your plane and the receiver are joined together electrically by the PPM cable and/or RSSI cable. power for these is coming from your ESC BEC or standalone BEC. DOSD does not supply power to servos

Originally Posted by MikeTheCrash

the servos controlled by DOSD on your plane and the receiver are joined together electrically by the PPM cable and/or RSSI cable. power for these is coming from your ESC BEC or standalone BEC. DOSD does not supply power to servos

Yes good to know. But why did the servoes start to make sound then? Like a humming sound if you know what i mean.

Originally Posted by zkilzz

Yes good to know. But why did the servoes start to make sound then? Like a humming sound if you know what i mean.

Well assuming that they aren't some special kind of singing servo and there is no power going to them, my guess would be that you may have wired something up incorrectly?

Originally Posted by rsands2801

Rth nearly killed my plane on its maiden! Accidentally flicked autopilot switch and as soon as it took off plane went rocking side to side and tried to climb immediately. Luckily I managed to jus bring it down on one of its rocks to the side and it only broke prop..lesson to check autopilot switch

Even worse is launching with the switch in Menu mode...you'll have no aileron/elevator control in that menu. ALWAYS make sure you're in normal mode before launch!!!!

Originally Posted by Haych

Thankyou Van, I too thought that a reset is needed, so I have done that and will wait for flying time one evening after work.

So generally you leave the aprotgain and aprocgain settings as default and mainly adjust the rocstepgain and rotstepgain settings??

Correct, just play with the ROT and ROC Stepgains, one at a time, and make the adjustments a little at a time. Most folks say they get near perfect AP flight with the stock settings.

You're plane should be more than stable enough. You shouldn't need much step gain for it. The fact you said it was bouncing back and forth and tried to flip over is exactly what to much step gain will do.

Originally Posted by zkilzz

Yes good to know. But why did the servoes start to make sound then? Like a humming sound if you know what i mean.

Like Mike said...the PWM rail power should be coming from your 5v BEC/UBEC/flight pack. Most likely you've got the 5v line going to your Rx, then it's passed to the DOSD PWM pins via the PPM cable. As for the humming...probably just the servos hunting around center. If you get the UHF antenna to close to the Rx antenna you could 'swamp' the Rx and get some channel cross over which will cause servo jitters. Moving your Tx away from the Rx should fix that. There is normally some servo noise anyway.

Mike

So the Spartan one is player number two?

and not the one I have pre ordered?