Little Lost Noob

KellzBellz said:
I'm using cleanflight and it will not connect.

It says No response from the bootloader, programming: FAILED

Edit: I also tried shorting out the boot pads and no luck there either. Could my FC just be wrecked?
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You need to clear with a hard reboot. I haven't done it since last year, I think the directions are on the Cleanflight forums page or SP3 controller page. Sorry I don't remember exactly, but that's what I had to do.
 
I just contacted banggood and they were pretty cool and just sent a new one. I can now dive into with all this new knowledge! Thank you guys for all your help! =)
 
KellzBellz said:
I just contacted banggood and they were pretty cool and just sent a new one. I can now dive into with all this new knowledge! Thank you guys for all your help! =)
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Just be very careful as you proceed, you wouldn't want to mess up the new gear too :p

Also, hang onto the old gear, it can probably still be resurrected from the dead with some more effort ;)

Let us know how things go ! :)
 
Hi Guys! I'm back at it again. I got my new drone in. I bought an R9DS and an SP Racing f3 flight controller. Aaaaaaaaaaaand, lost again.. I was not able to flash it in CleanFlight but was able to in BetaFlight which is just a spinoff, cross-platform for Cleanflight. I do not know where to connect the wires from the FC to the Receiver. Please help?
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On your R9DS, SBUS out is the 3 pin horizontal port on the bottom-right corner. As for the F3, hold it so you're looking at it with the servo output rail (numbered 1 to 8) across the bottom. Now look at the top-left corner and the first 3 pins going down are for Spektrum Satellite(you don't want these). The next three down are ground, 5 volts and SBUS UART 2 in. These are the 3 you want to connect your cable to. And do a little reading up on BF, it's a little more than a simple "spinoff" of CF
 
... Nope, it's those three pins all by themselves running horizontally instead of vertically.
Plug it in so the black wire is in the corner and the end with the white wire is more to the middle of the receiver ;)
 
... You're very welcome, I know it can get quite frustrating trying to figure all this stuff out.
Sometimes even when everything IS wired up correctly there can still be problems due to something as simple as
which order items were attended to (turning THIS on first or THAT on first) ... If nothing else, having an RTF kit
will get you in the air faster AND give you some familiarity with a working system which may help you eventually
figure out how to get these other parts you have to "play nice together" :)
 
I had a stroke of brilliance! I ordered the same drone RTF with a Turnigy radio! Now I will have 1 drone that I will be able to use for parts, 1 drone that I will be able to put a new receiver on to fly AND a brand new RTF setup that I can use as a guide! Yay!
 
:) Excellent ! ... It never hurts to have another quad handy just for parts ... lol ... most people just buy a few extra arms or motors
and stuff, but you'll be ready for just about anything that might go wrong ;)

Start off slowly at first, using "Horizon Mode" (self leveling) and just practice basic maneuvers and puttering around until you're comfortable
with controlling the quad, but do not get too used to the "protection" that mode gives you. As soon as you feel confident in your skill and
ability to fly without losing control you want to switch to "Acro Mode".

THAT's a whole another world because the quad will NOT return to stable flight by it's self ! For example, in horizon mode once you let off the pitch
command input the quad will return to level flight automatically, but in Acro mode it will stay doing whatever you last told it to do until you counteract
that by another pitch command input ... Now you're really flying that quad because it will do anything you tell it to (even really bad stuff like going full
speed into the dirt).

Next you'll want to have a set of goggles (preferably) or at least a screen to see what the quad sees, hence the term FPV (first person view).
After you're comfortable flying LOS (line of sight) in Acro mode, it's time to go into FPV mode (here's where it get really gnarly but really fun).

All of these three stages of learning are an entirely new experience compared to each previous stage.
It's a fun and adrenaline filled experience piloting an FPV racer (especially when zipping through trees) that once you've started you'll be hooked :p
 
Soooo... Change of plans.. *hangs head in shame* I cancelled the eachine racer 250 order because I ran across a new ImmersionRC Vortex 285 for $199, checked YouTube and finally found a video that covered setting it up with my current radio. I guess that I'm a visual learner because I THINK that I finally understand it! Anyway, I just couldn't pass up getting a vortex for nearly $100 less than the eachine package! I'm so excited!!

As for getting hooked, I'm already hooked. I had 3 other drones before this Eachine fiasco. I got a cheap Syma X5C first to learn the basics of flying. I got half way decent at flying it and then moved up to an MJX X400. I flew it for a little while and then saw racing on ESPN and just HAD to have a racer!

I ended up buying a Arris X-Speed RTF 250B kit, which I immediately fell in LOVE with! I flew it for a couple of months and eventually bent a motor, so I went motor shopping and thought "wooooo, I should get faster motors!" The ESCs were fine, so I went from 2205 2300kv and bought another set of 2205s but 2600kv. The thing was nuts! (well, at least to me.) I was out flying one day, the wind caught it and in a stroke of not very brilliant, I dumped the throttle because it had drifted behind my house, IN THE WRONG DIRECTION! Needless to say, it was never seen again. =(

I had just gotten a cheap pair of goggles and was still getting used to them, so I didn't always fly with them. The time that I lost the drone, I wasn't using FPV.

A few weeks ago, I got a Tiny Whoop to fly around the house and practice flying FPV. Then just last night, 16 year old step-daughter told me that she would like to try it sometime! I gave her the drone and half a dozen packs and turned on the fpv to play around with and in no time at all, she was chasing the dog around the house and having a ball! I told her that if she decided that she liked it, that we could be flying buddies! It looks like I may be buying another controller and getting the newest eachine up and going for her! Yay!
 
KellzBellz said:
Soooo... Change of plans.. *hangs head in shame* I cancelled the eachine racer 250 order because I ran across a new ImmersionRC Vortex 285 for $199, checked YouTube and finally found a video that covered setting it up with my current radio. I guess that I'm a visual learner because I THINK that I finally understand it! Anyway, I just couldn't pass up getting a vortex for nearly $100 less than the eachine package! I'm so excited!!

As for getting hooked, I'm already hooked. I had 3 other drones before this Eachine fiasco. I got a cheap Syma X5C first to learn the basics of flying. I got half way decent at flying it and then moved up to an MJX X400. I flew it for a little while and then saw racing on ESPN and just HAD to have a racer!

I ended up buying a Arris X-Speed RTF 250B kit, which I immediately fell in LOVE with! I flew it for a couple of months and eventually bent a motor, so I went motor shopping and thought "wooooo, I should get faster motors!" The ESCs were fine, so I went from 2205 2300kv and bought another set of 2205s but 2600kv. The thing was nuts! (well, at least to me.) I was out flying one day, the wind caught it and in a stroke of not very brilliant, I dumped the throttle because it had drifted behind my house, IN THE WRONG DIRECTION! Needless to say, it was never seen again. =(

I had just gotten a cheap pair of goggles and was still getting used to them, so I didn't always fly with them. The time that I lost the drone, I wasn't using FPV.

A few weeks ago, I got a Tiny Whoop to fly around the house and practice flying FPV. Then just last night, 16 year old step-daughter told me that she would like to try it sometime! I gave her the drone and half a dozen packs and turned on the fpv to play around with and in no time at all, she was chasing the dog around the house and having a ball! I told her that if she decided that she liked it, that we could be flying buddies! It looks like I may be buying another controller and getting the newest eachine up and going for her! Yay!
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Good call on dumping the ER250 had three, until I wised up. After that I was mostly flying and spending less time fixing. As for the lost quad, it's absolutely essential that you set up failsafe. So if the quad gets out of range or loses TX signal it will come down where you will have a shot at finding it again. Without failsafe its a good bet that the quad will fly away with the last input until the battery dies. Also dump the Tile because those things are junk and not loud enough. Get something like this. https://www.amazon.com/SMAKN-Quadco...d=1489521589&sr=8-2&keywords=lost+quad+buzzer

And if you dont have one, get one of these. https://www.amazon.com/Quadcopter-M...=1489521741&sr=8-25&keywords=lost+quad+buzzer

Those are just examples... shop around for better deals.. The lost quad buzzer has saved me many times in woods and corn fields. You flip a switch on your TX and a loud buzzer goes of so you can find it. It's a must have.
 
Altsickeness said:
Good call on dumping the ER250 had three, until I wised up. After that I was mostly flying and spending less time fixing. As for the lost quad, it's absolutely essential that you set up failsafe. So if the quad gets out of range or loses TX signal it will come down where you will have a shot at finding it again. Without failsafe its a good bet that the quad will fly away with the last input until the battery dies. Also dump the Tile because those things are junk and not loud enough. Get something like this. https://www.amazon.com/SMAKN-Quadco...d=1489521589&sr=8-2&keywords=lost+quad+buzzer

And if you dont have one, get one of these. https://www.amazon.com/Quadcopter-M...=1489521741&sr=8-25&keywords=lost+quad+buzzer

Those are just examples... shop around for better deals.. The lost quad buzzer has saved me many times in woods and corn fields. You flip a switch on your TX and a loud buzzer goes of so you can find it. It's a must have.
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Thanks! I had actually already planned for this. I have these already to install when the new one comes in.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XMDC9V0/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me=

I was planning to use that and the tile, just because the tile has a short range GPS. As for setting up the failsafe, I most likely will be hitting you guys up again to help me set it up, unless I can find a good video. =D
 
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