Building a VTOL Fixed-Wing and need to switch off 2 motors

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OskarTango

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Hello together,

I like to build a VTOL Fixed-Wing and need to switch off the 2 front motors.
2 modes: drone mode and fixed wing mode.
Is there a possibility to swich off or at least idle the front motors in the fixed wing mode?
Using Betaflight and Omnibus F4 V3 board, at the moment.
The back motors are tillt during transition, front are fixed.

Thanks for help
Oskar
 
Hi can you use a different mode in the FCB to shut off front motors , your need to programe it , sorry not used betaflight one of the guys will give you more info than I can
 
So you want to take off with four motors and switch to two motors in mid air? Sounds cool I'm sure it's been done but i don't think anyone here has built one.
 
well, the build was easy, but I did not know how to program the FC over CLI when switching modes :-(
So flying with the test plane is a little tricky
 

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Think if really want to do this on a single board you'll need to define multiple custom mixers and figure out how to get betaflight to switch the mixer being used with the "modes" tab or a switch/aux input setting the given mixer to switch between "quadcopter mode" and "fixed wing mode". Did a bit of searching and see some others have done this by just having multiple flight controllers and using a switch to change the mixer settings on the TX side to communicate with one FC or another effectively, here's the docs on mixer setup (still would need to figure out how to switch custom mixers with a switch/aux/mode):

github.com

betaflight/Mixer.md at master · betaflight/betaflight

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