Arris FPV 250

[PCR]

Well it arrived, I am pretty please. Looks like quality construction, is a composite construction, upper and lower layer of frame seem to sandwich another material, very light and very stiff. The props are a bit flimsy, they did send two sets but I will probably replace pretty quickly, they are 5 inch.

Some connection issue that will need to be dealt with once I get a transmitter and receiver.

Diagram shows three wires (white, red, and black) in a single connector going to throttle, blue for roll, yellow for pitch, green for yaw, and orange for flight mode.

Not sure what flight mode is , but the wire are black, yellow, blue, and green (together) another yellow separate?? See Pic

Also a yellow wire that goes from the controller to the camera, probably to activate the camera? Shown near battery connection.

Also got two other little connectors.

 

[GJH105775]

The lone yellow wire could be video out, and it pick up ground from the power.

 

[GJH105775]

Oh, just looked, you only need signal for most of your Rx in and ESC outs, as the ground and power can be picked up on the first motor and first channel.

 

[PCR]

Probably right about the yellow,

There is two plugs for the two small 4 wire harnesses and the colors match what is needed for the receiver, but, I thought I only needed one connections. Thanks leaves the other wires to figure. I am sure things will come together which I get the transmitter and receiver, hopefully tomorrow.

 

[GJH105775]

What receiver and what flight controller do you have?

 

[Jackson]

That's a CC3D harness, seems colors can vary. This is the standard color code.

If yours looks like this Yellow/pin5 will go to #3 (throttle) on your RX. If by chance your colors aren't the same (it's happened) you'll have to map them out manually. For example say 5 is blue plug that one into #3 on your RX. This is assuming PWM.

 

[PCR]

Turns out it has the Openpilot ccd3 controller, seems to be a very good unit and there is lots of documentation and instruction on their website. Gotta fly, soon

 

[PCR]

Well I should be ready to fly, but I cannot get the thing to work. I bought the Spektrum DX6 which came with the AR610 receiver. it used the Openpilot control. Did a setup following utube, did the bind, all seems good. Went to openpilot to set up the controls, web site really works well, set up control, it even coordinates the transmitter. Moved transmitter control and the web site responed. Every thing seem perfect. Plug in the battery, get a cheery tone, blue light and flashing green on controller, red on receiver. Turn on transmitter, model comes up, all seems good, more throttle, nothing.

Any Help

 

[GJH105775]

How are you arming it?

 

[PCR]

I got it figured out, the default is diarmed, ie. no ability to arm. It is briefly mentioned in the setup but allows you to save the setup and exit without changing. Saw it in the documentation, changed and now it flys,

It is very unstable I will have to do some adjustments when I get some more open space, tomorrow morning.

Can I adjust the ESCs manually or do I need my computer?

 

[Jackson]

Plug in the battery, get a cheery tone, blue light and flashing green on controller, red on receiver. Turn on transmitter, model comes up, all seems good, more throttle, nothing.

Any Help

Did you set and use the 'ARM' function? Unless you set it to 'Always Arm'.


Oops, I was to slow

 

[PCR]

BTW thanks for you help it is really appreciated, went to my hobby store and they dont know anything about quadcopters, sorry cant help you. I will leave the a note on yelp and try to find a store that appreciates my business and maybe show a little interest.

 

[GJH105775]

Probably the flight controller to blame for instability at the moment, do you know how to adjust the self level gains?

 

[PCR]

No, but maybe I can do a search on youtube with your information.

 

[PCR]

I looked and there are a number of videos which show them stabilizing a quadcopter, but not one word on how they are doing it. Looks like the have it connected to the computer. I am assuming that this is something done with Openpilot but once again there is a section on stabilization but no information on how to use It.

 

[GJH105775]

Interesting. What of the documentation?

 

[PCR]

I could not really find any documentation, I did connect to their software and they have a stabilization section to change the settings, I got some new settings from another post, have not seen how they work. Would be interesting to see how the settings work to try to decide what needs to be changed. The biggest issue to roll, it starts to rotate prior to takeoff, and once off the ground makes control really difficult. I tried to adjust using the trim on the tranmitter and had some sucess but need to get it closer using the onboard hardware.

 

[GJH105775]

Interesting, that is not usually a setting. Are your props balanced?

 

[PCR]

No just what came with it,

 

[PCR]

I found some settings on the internet and used the software to update the controller. Worked fine, could need some refinement but was very stable and it really flew. This issue I have now is correcting pilot error, this is guy is really stupid and broke 4 props in two flights of 10 min (actually broke 3 in the first minute and 1 in the second minute) after that really had good flights. Probably need to work on some transmitter setting but really flyable and fun, pretty fast as well.