Originally Posted by EndOfDays

Here a video showing my multicopter-journey in 2012. Since the WKM takes an important place in this journey I post it here:

https://vimeo.com/58527928

best regards

Ferdinand

Hi Ferdinand.
Great compilation You had a busy year. My favourite is the X16 piggy back project.
Looking forward to your 2013 videos.

Is been long due. After a couple of months of sub-zero weather we had a break and is was above freezing.

We decided to give it a try/ The weather was rainny and alot of fog start to move in.
But what ta heck we are here now so we gave it a go.
The bird is heavy or it felt heavy but she hovered at 50% throttle.
Originally when I biult the machine I used the Hitec Aurora Tx and Rx.

But the guy I build it for he uses the DX-8.
So off comes the Aurora and installed the DX-8.
Now I had to go into the assistant and start all over again.
And that's where she's at right now.
In the video you will hear the motor ticking that's because the motors and esc's are not in sync.
Now I have to take everything off again and do the esc throttle calibration.

we didn't use the gps function as we wanted to try it in Atti mode.
She flew well and steady.
He is happy. Next video will be on board camera and esc calibration.

Cheers

Bill

maiden flight of the Osprey (2 min 52 sec)

I think the guy was scared more than I was LOL

Originally Posted by sidneyw

Home or office; where are you located?

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ok Norway

And.. Today I could upgrade..

I did nothing since yesterday.. Only waited.

FW 5.18 Documentation :
"After taking off, every time the aircraft recorded a home-point successfully the LED will blink Cyan quickly for indicating."

-> but how can we record a HOME position during flight ???

Pg 28-29 of the 3.5 version of the WKM manual.

Manually: When 6 or more GPS satellites are found ( blinks once or no blinking), you can
switch the X2 channel between two positions quickly 3 to 5 times to record the current position
of the multi-rotor as the new home point.

No, false since 5.10
X2 define POI point or CourseLock Point
Try a RTH and you will see your X2 point is not the Home one.

Originally Posted by Panza

No, false since 5.10
X2 define POI point or CourseLock Point
Try a RTH and you will see your X2 point is not the Home one.

Panza I am not going to argue with you, the X2 will record both, POI point and new Home Point. It has nothing to do with Course Lock as the compass heading is set within 30 seconds of start up.

Originally Posted by Panza

No, false since 5.10
X2 define POI point or CourseLock Point
Try a RTH and you will see your X2 point is not the Home one.

Really??? I have 5.16 and I can do it via X2.. You have three choices I think mixing with POI, Course lock and Home lock

Hey guys, I did something incredibly stupid today. I had been plugging in my batteries on my S800 and powering up the whole copter to do adjustments. I don't have any batteries wit xt60 connectors on them. I decided to make a deans to xt60 adapter so I could plug directly into the pmu so I wouldn't have to worry about the props spinning up. I checked to make sure the polarity was correct before putting the xt60 back together but somehow I still put it together wrong. I plugged in the pmu and smoke came out of it of course. I think maybe I looked at the "-" side and thought it was "+" because of the seam running over it.
I can order another pmu but is there any way to power up the wookong and check everything to make sure I didn't mess up anything else? How likely is it that I damaged other things? I tried to search but my Internet has been out and my phone barely has enough service to do anything.

Originally Posted by Tahoe Ed

Panza I am not going to argue with you, the X2 will record both, POI point and new Home Point. It has nothing to do with Course Lock as the compass heading is set within 30 seconds of start up.

So you are shure set new POI sets new Home point.
Why not, it's to try.
But immagine this case of flight :
- i take off at beach (sets home by power on)
- fliy to a beautifull clutch and take a nice shoot with the great POI function
- go back to land
but at return, i had a Tc failure, WK set on failsafe, and go's land in the chapelle wall....

So it's not logic to set new home at each POI video shoot...
Sure Ed POI->set HOME ?
(dt wt to arg w y too)

Originally Posted by rc-mike

Hey guys, I did something incredibly stupid today. I had been plugging in my batteries on my S800 and powering up the whole copter to do adjustments. I don't have any batteries wit xt60 connectors on them. I decided to make a deans to xt60 adapter so I could plug directly into the pmu so I wouldn't have to worry about the props spinning up. I checked to make sure the polarity was correct before putting the xt60 back together but somehow I still put it together wrong. I plugged in the pmu and smoke came out of it of course. I think maybe I looked at the "-" side and thought it was "+" because of the seam running over it.
I can order another pmu but is there any way to power up the wookong and check everything to make sure I didn't mess up anything else? How likely is it that I damaged other things? I tried to search but my Internet has been out and my phone barely has enough service to do anything.

After my PMU failed I am using a bec connected to the PMU port. I have a good cc bec and I trust it more than the PMU. I still have it on and I have the replacement PMU as spare part.
I think you can also power it from your esc...

Originally Posted by tigar

After my PMU failed I am using a bec connected to the PMU port. I have a good cc bec and I trust it more than the PMU. I still have it on and I have the replacement PMU as spare part.
I think you can also power it from your esc...

Thank you very much! I assumed it would work okay but with my luck I figured I'd better check before plugging stuff in. I plugged in a BEC and it powered up and after taking it outside I got a GPS lock. So I guess it's okay. I may just stick with the BEC since I don't use voltage monitoring anyway.

Originally Posted by Panza

So you are shure set new POI sets new Home point.
Why not, it's to try.
But immagine this case of flight :
- i take off at beach (sets home by power on)
- fliy to a beautifull clutch and take a nice shoot with the great POI function
- go back to land
but at return, i had a Tc failure, WK set on failsafe, and go's land in the chapelle wall....

So it's not logic to set new home at each POI video shoot...
Sure Ed POI->set HOME ?
(dt wt to arg w y too)

Hi Panza. I think this has been lost in translation?? What me and I think Ed also are saying is once you power up it sets a home point when GPS is good enough but you can set a new home point using X2 switching between Home Lock and Off... Without powering down and back up again.
POI and Course lock are separate functions.

Originally Posted by Panza

So you are shure set new POI sets new Home point.
Why not, it's to try.
But immagine this case of flight :
- i take off at beach (sets home by power on)
- fliy to a beautifull clutch and take a nice shoot with the great POI function
- go back to land
but at return, i had a Tc failure, WK set on failsafe, and go's land in the chapelle wall....

So it's not logic to set new home at each POI video shoot...
Sure Ed POI->set HOME ?
(dt wt to arg w y too)

With the WKM, setting a POI does not set a new Home Point. The controller handles it differently. Pages 30-31 of the WKM Manual under TIPS.

Originally Posted by Tahoe Ed

With the WKM, setting a POI does not set a new Home Point. The controller handles it differently. Pages 30-31 of the WKM Manual under TIPS.

Hello Ed

Page 28:
Note:
Pay attention to the following statement, which may also lead the MC to cancel the course lock:
 Switch U channel to Manual Mode position, or switch off transmitter, or fly in waypoint mode.

So this means that if I am flying with Atti Mode and between HOME-LOCK >> COURSE-LOCK>> HOME-LOCK >> COURSE-LOCK, bla bla bla (without issues) ; but sudenly I move to MANUAL MODE and then I switch HOME-LOCK the "Forward Direction" is been lost?

Do I was clear?

Maybe that is why I had issues using the Course Lock switch !
EDIT: I also read that you have to be 10 meters far away from the equipment...

Regards

Roberto