Help with my Eachine Wizard ARF!!!

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Goosher69

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Hey guys, so I got a wizard ARF in the mail a couple months ago and I still haven't been able to get it flying yet. This was my first drone, and I know I dove in way over my head, I had a sharp learning curve and finally have a better understanding of it all, but I'm at a stand still and I'm not sure what to do next.

Here's the run down of what's happening. Two on my motors on one side of my quad are spinning faster that the two on the other side. After doing some research and watching YouTube videos, it was making me think it was a esc issue, so I downloaded BLHeli, updated my esc with the newest software, re flashed all of them, then I connected back to betaflight, and calibrated all the motors together. I tested it with my remote on betaflight (under the motors tab and when I accelerated the throttle all of them spun up equally and at the same speed) so I thought I was all done. Screwed my props on, put on a battery. Being nervous, I figured I would hook it back up to betaflight and double check, when I did, it was having the same issue again. So I tried re flashing the esc and calibrating the motors again and now I can't get them to accelerate at the same rate again. I haven't worked on it for about 2 weeks bc I have been discouraged and I couldn't find anymore answers on Reddit, so I figured I would try posting here since I have got a lot of great info from Quadcopterforum. If anyone could shed some light on my situation, or have any suggestions or tips, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
 
Goosher69 said:
Screwed my props on, put on a battery. Being nervous, I figured I would hook it back up to betaflight and double check, when I did, it was having the same issue again.
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Well take a walk on the wild side, find some grass and see what happens when you try to actually get it off the ground.
 
Jackson said:
Well take a walk on the wild side, find some grass and see what happens when you try to actually get it off the ground.
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I actually just did a test flight. For some reason my yaw was set to 270 in betaflight. Put it back to 0 and everything appeared to look better. After the test flight, instead of violently flipping to the one side on take off, it did a backflip this time. Was not able to get it to hover
 
question. Did you solder your esc's to your motors and PDB or did you use some kind of connector?

Connectors are bad. The vibration of the quad creates micro breaks in the connection causing it to react erratically. As well, make sure your solder does not cross over to other pads. Clean it up too with alcohol. If there is flux left on the board from the solder, it will bridge a connection.

Also, did you set up your transmitter in betaflight? Making sure the channel map was correct? I know my frsky defaults to a fatuba channel map and cleanflight does not. Have to adjust it with every new model I program.

Also make sure the motor layout is correct in betaflight. For some reason, cleanflight configuration tab labels the motors from top left clockwise, 3412. But on the motor test section, it is 1234. If the motor laytout is incorrect, the flight controller will add more power when it starts to tilt thinking it is leveling it when it is actually flipping it.

It might sound stupid, but make sure you have your props on correct. CCW on the CCW motors and CW on the CW motors.

Sounds like a configuration problem more than a hardware problem.
 
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