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Okay one more thing when I first started flying smoking a motor or esc was more likely too just because I wasn't fast about disarming before or immediately after a crash, more experience and muscle memory get better at disarming to avoid having motors try to run when they are locked on a branch...

One other thing worth noting if using 6S many components that advertise 6S compatible are right at their limits voltage wise so is best if get things that claim 6S support and also support 4S and run them at the lower voltage (kv of motors tied to voltage but can get escs with lots of overhead...

When comes to releasing the magic smoke it depends on the component what the likely root cause is. A smoked motor can happen because of shorts from screws scraping the enamel coating off the coils in the motor or from too much current and not enough air flow leading to enough heat build up to...

Only thing to watch out for there is the polarity on the capacitor (usually a white or solid colored band along the minus side). Regarding other stuff to buy I'd suggest a vifly v2 (or 3 if they have newer one) is basically little beacon that screams if quad power disconnected for too long or...

Yup that receiver should work with any 2.4GHz elrs transmitter I believe. The low esr capacitor on the power input is a mostly optional thing, it can basically help if the video transmitter/signal getting lots of noise when the motors are drawing a lot of current for short periods (basically...

Not familiar with the syma x8 but in general using a multimeter to check the voltage and/or having a hobby charger that shows the voltage and how much current being pushed into the battery are ways to check a battery health. The voltage should get to 4.2V per cell when fully charged (3.0 V...

Double check the tilt and rotation in the 3d view in betaflight you may have your FC board flipped around in a weird orientation and can change the FC orientation in the configuration. If tilting the quad by hand forward back left and right and yawing it around moves in the wrong direction try...

They are expecting where it shows on the right for receiver input but also note there says any UART can support being the "receiver", the important thing basically is to select the corresponding "serial RX" toggle on the ports tab in betaflight, so if you use R1/T1 use Serial 1 etc., then check...

I personally have one quad with an analog transmitter on it (the stuff I learned with) and one with a DJI air unit on it (because they had a sale and the digital was too tempting not to try). I mostly fly the digital now just because it's a nicer view while I'm flying, and the latency isn't...

No prob. You just reminded me I need to fix one of my VTXes :D the antenna mount broke off the board cause a zip-tie gave out and the antenna was still stuck to the quad but VTX cam free and broke that connector (I think I have a spare here somewhere). Regarding the compatibility for VTXes...

Basically if you had a component that needed more current at one of those voltages then you might want a dedicated PDB still or some buck converter/regulator that can flow more current without cooking itself, but should be fine. If this is your first ever quad I'd suggest either build a small...

Just checked out the link and yup looks like should be all good: Power Input: 3S-6S LiPo Power Output: 9V (2A), 3.3V (500mA), 4.5V(1A), 5V(2A)

In general the "PDB" is a thing of the past, typically the "all in one ESCs" will basically take the power in from the battery and has regulators for powering the ESC chips. The PDBs were a thing when the 4 in 1 ESCs didn't exist and so you needed to split power out to all the individual ESC...

BTW binding between TX and RX is notoriously a huge pain, I've recently started switching my quads to using ELRS for the receivers and use ELRS transmitter then the binding just happens through the two sides having a shared password I setup when I first flash the transmitter/receiver code and...

Are you able to bind the new T8 transmitter to the quad? that's first step, I want to say with tinyhawk in general can use the bind_rx command in the betaflight CLI to trigger it into binding mode instead of trying to hold bind button while plugging in a battery (a job for a man with three...

Sounds like very weird behavior if possible get a dump of the betaflight logs and use the blackbox log viewer to overlay the info on the vid and maybe can get better idea of what's happening input vs control wise from BF side of things and can maybe sort it out from there. My initial suspicion...

I find all the industrial applications to be interesting for sure, I think it's mostly hobby flyers who post/pop in here or there on this forum but we'll occasionally see someone swing through with more industrial applications. What firmware/flight control hardware are you using on that thing...

You could certainly (possibly) do some kind of mesh network or relays between quads if like spanning some distance was a problem but generally speaking a central control with multiple individual radio links from the ground station is how it would be coordinated.

Mah is a measure of capacity it doesn't tell you anything about the max current output or the voltage under load (when current being drawn to power motors) as long as voltage doesn't change (see go above max for components) you're not likely to fry components but if put a heavier battery on you...

I'll have to refer you to the QA team https://cucumber.io/docs/gherkin/reference/