MJW
Well-Known Member
I guess that's as good of a title as any,,,,,,,,,
The other day I was answering up on a thread about drone not always going where it should, then it turned into a hyjack off topic discussion between myself and another flyer about my Bugs 3,,,,,,
Now given the Bugs 3 is a "hobby / toy" drone it does have it's short comings, in that the throttle stick is very easy to move, so much so that it requires two fingers pinching it to keep the drone aloft, there's no ratchet to the stick and no centering spring for throttle just for the yaw
Ok, so that's not that big of a deal and actually the common method of control, but I'm kind of uncommon and so this seems fitting for me to have a difficult time with it,,,,,,,
Rubber bands, I had removed the guts of the transmitter to see if I might see or imagineer a solution for my situation, I wanted a return spring basically or altitude hold for the Bugs, I was watching a few video's on YT about the Bugs 3H that has what they called "altitude hold", it's in the transmitter not the bird, same bugs they've been selling but with a new airframe, in the transmitter when the altitude hold is activated it simply applies a spring centering mechanism to the throttle fore & aft movement and in the video's the pilot is having to keep tweaking the throttle to keep the bird close to hovering, with a fresh battery the pilot is throttling back and towards the end of the battery the pilot is throttling up a bit, so it's not a sensor in the bird, just a mechanical mechanism in the transmitter.
Next weather window open I gathered up my stuff and looked for my rubber band collection, couldn't find it but mid winter weather widows are brief so off to the field and just going to try to get the hang of this throttle stick, my all of my other birds have altitude hold so I haven't learned the feel for two finger throttle control.
Got to the air park, nobody airborne and I had a few batteries on 75% charge so I was at the bench and setting up when I saw a pair of matched rubber bands sitting there, I put them on my transmitter from side to side and capturing the the throttle stick between them,
It worked!! sort of,,,,,, there was a lot of free play in the set up but I kept flying and can't say I got better but fewer belly flops to the ground, finished burning the partially charged packs and the last one to leave the field as dusk set in.
I kept on thinking about how to get the rubber bands to be closer to what I wanted, now with them going top to bottom over the throttle stick I think will work closer to what I want in a throttle.
In the mean time my Hubsan replacement 501 showed up, got the Tx bound to the new bird and we may have another weather window today or tomorrow, gonna charge a few packs for it and the Bugs to be ready,
I picked up a new charger, 10amp dual port so Parallel of 4 packs for each bird at the same time no problem,
Guess the real reason for the post is that I just had to tell somebody,,,,,,,,
The other day I was answering up on a thread about drone not always going where it should, then it turned into a hyjack off topic discussion between myself and another flyer about my Bugs 3,,,,,,
Now given the Bugs 3 is a "hobby / toy" drone it does have it's short comings, in that the throttle stick is very easy to move, so much so that it requires two fingers pinching it to keep the drone aloft, there's no ratchet to the stick and no centering spring for throttle just for the yaw
Ok, so that's not that big of a deal and actually the common method of control, but I'm kind of uncommon and so this seems fitting for me to have a difficult time with it,,,,,,,
Rubber bands, I had removed the guts of the transmitter to see if I might see or imagineer a solution for my situation, I wanted a return spring basically or altitude hold for the Bugs, I was watching a few video's on YT about the Bugs 3H that has what they called "altitude hold", it's in the transmitter not the bird, same bugs they've been selling but with a new airframe, in the transmitter when the altitude hold is activated it simply applies a spring centering mechanism to the throttle fore & aft movement and in the video's the pilot is having to keep tweaking the throttle to keep the bird close to hovering, with a fresh battery the pilot is throttling back and towards the end of the battery the pilot is throttling up a bit, so it's not a sensor in the bird, just a mechanical mechanism in the transmitter.
Next weather window open I gathered up my stuff and looked for my rubber band collection, couldn't find it but mid winter weather widows are brief so off to the field and just going to try to get the hang of this throttle stick, my all of my other birds have altitude hold so I haven't learned the feel for two finger throttle control.
Got to the air park, nobody airborne and I had a few batteries on 75% charge so I was at the bench and setting up when I saw a pair of matched rubber bands sitting there, I put them on my transmitter from side to side and capturing the the throttle stick between them,
It worked!! sort of,,,,,, there was a lot of free play in the set up but I kept flying and can't say I got better but fewer belly flops to the ground, finished burning the partially charged packs and the last one to leave the field as dusk set in.
I kept on thinking about how to get the rubber bands to be closer to what I wanted, now with them going top to bottom over the throttle stick I think will work closer to what I want in a throttle.
In the mean time my Hubsan replacement 501 showed up, got the Tx bound to the new bird and we may have another weather window today or tomorrow, gonna charge a few packs for it and the Bugs to be ready,
I picked up a new charger, 10amp dual port so Parallel of 4 packs for each bird at the same time no problem,
Guess the real reason for the post is that I just had to tell somebody,,,,,,,,