First off thank you for having me here on this board. I'm pretty new too the hobby so I'll try to keep my dumb questions to a minimum.
I haven't bitten off building a quad ground up yet but since the quad bug bit me I have accumulated several toy class quads that I am having a blast with.
Here's the issue that I was hoping to get some advice with. I have a Estes proto z that was warrantied for me because it constantly drifted hard forward and was impossible to control. I like the size and stability of this quad but aside from that it's quite slow and far from agile. I also have a blade inductrix which performed great until I broke the frame that supports one of the motors. Looking at these two broken quads I decided that I'd try to Frankenstein build them into one fully functional quad. The idea of the proto z body with the heart of a great flying inductrix was to much to resist so I grabbed my tools and went to work.
I modified the proto z body to accept the inductrix board and battery. The motors were plug and play so I avoided having to solder anything(my soldering experience is on a different level as I am a commercial plumber by trade)
I left the original motors on the proto z and took care to make sure that they were plugged up the same as they were on the original quads. Powered everything up and thought I'd just made my first successful mod but not so fast lol...
When I tried to fly it it just spun wildly like the yaw was stuck on. Took it back down and swamped the two forward motor connections hoping this may fix it but now when I give it throttle it just immediately flips over.
As I said I am a newbie to this and am just now starting to learn the how's and why's of these quads. Can anyone maybe make some suggestions on where I have gone wrong? I'd like to get some use out of the inductrix parts because it was a great flying quad and I like blades S.A.F.E. technology and really enjoyed my nano QX.
I apologize if I've posted this in the wrong spot and if my question is somehow ridiculous. Thanks in advance.
I haven't bitten off building a quad ground up yet but since the quad bug bit me I have accumulated several toy class quads that I am having a blast with.
Here's the issue that I was hoping to get some advice with. I have a Estes proto z that was warrantied for me because it constantly drifted hard forward and was impossible to control. I like the size and stability of this quad but aside from that it's quite slow and far from agile. I also have a blade inductrix which performed great until I broke the frame that supports one of the motors. Looking at these two broken quads I decided that I'd try to Frankenstein build them into one fully functional quad. The idea of the proto z body with the heart of a great flying inductrix was to much to resist so I grabbed my tools and went to work.
I modified the proto z body to accept the inductrix board and battery. The motors were plug and play so I avoided having to solder anything(my soldering experience is on a different level as I am a commercial plumber by trade)
I left the original motors on the proto z and took care to make sure that they were plugged up the same as they were on the original quads. Powered everything up and thought I'd just made my first successful mod but not so fast lol...
When I tried to fly it it just spun wildly like the yaw was stuck on. Took it back down and swamped the two forward motor connections hoping this may fix it but now when I give it throttle it just immediately flips over.
As I said I am a newbie to this and am just now starting to learn the how's and why's of these quads. Can anyone maybe make some suggestions on where I have gone wrong? I'd like to get some use out of the inductrix parts because it was a great flying quad and I like blades S.A.F.E. technology and really enjoyed my nano QX.
I apologize if I've posted this in the wrong spot and if my question is somehow ridiculous. Thanks in advance.
