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    450 Autonomous Drone ESC's

    I have build a couple of racing quads in the past and I am now going to tackle an autonomous build. I have these Sunny sky motors and two different ESC's Racerstar 20a 4 in 1 and Emax simonK 30a ESC's. I am wondering what ESC will work better for this build? I have also heard that the simonK...
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    Cant Get Motors To Spin

    So I recently had my quad flying pretty good. Then I cut a ppm wire with the props by accident. Since my receiver supported I-bus I switched to using that. Now that I am using I-Bus I cant get the motors to spin no matter what. Even the motor controller in beta flight cant get them to spin. The...
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    Motor / ESC Problem?

    I recently built my first racing quadcopter and second drone. I used the build guide found here. I had a good first flight but on my second flight a had a crash and one of the motors gave off a lot of smoke. I tried to fly it again a couple of times and then gave up and came in to check on the...
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    Bad Motors? Or Is It Just Me?

    For my first quad, I decided to build a 450 and go with some cheap Emax xa2212 980kv motors (starting to regret this now :(). I have simonK 25A ESC's and an APM 2.6 my props are APC 10 x 4.5. When I first put together my quadcopter I got it all working and then all of a sudden the motor started...
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    ECalc Error With My Quadcopter

    So recently I put my quadcopter into ECalc just to see what it would say and I am getting an error. Error: max. power over the limit of the motor. Please check the max. power limits defined by the manufacturer! (electric Power: 372.3 W > Limit (up to 15s): 185 W) I have attached some pictures...
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    Burnt out motors

    So just recently I put together my very first drone. I had a couple of flights and then 1 of my motors started shaking back and forth. I Un-Armed the motors straight away and then I went and checked the connections. It looked like the motor had a lost connection so I went ahead and fixed the...
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    Apm 2.8 - How to wire to PDB

    Hello, I am building my very first drone and I am super excited but I have 1 problem so far. My flight controller(apm 2.8) comes with a power cable but I'm not sure how to wire it to my power distribution board. Apm 2.8 with cables: https://i.imgur.com/YyM896E.png Power Distribution Board...
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    First Drone Build (Are My Parts Compatible And A Few Questions)

    Well, I decided that I would like to build my first drone and I'm really excited! I would like it to be a photography drone. Here is my part list below: Frame: I am 3D printing a Quadcopter frame FC: F3 Flight Controller Acro 6 DOF/Deluxe 10 DOF for Multirotor Racing PDB: CC3D NAZE32 F3 Power...
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    New Drone Build! Any Help?

    So this is my first time making a drone and I have decided to use an online tutorial. I would just like to know if anyone has any suggestions on the parts or if any of the parts won't work together. Frame: I am 3D printing a Quadcopter frame FC: AfroFlight Naze32 Rev5 PDB:CC3D NAZE32 F3 Power...
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