Smooth Cinematic Flight: How to DIAGNOSE a BAD Flight Controller vs. Gyro

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#cinematic #tuning #flightcontroller #fpv #peakperformance
0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Detecting an issue line-of-sight
2:20 - Setting up Logging to Detect which Axis
3:42 - Reading BlackBox Explorer for your log files
6:05 - What you are looking or in the logs
9:34 - Adding an Electrolytic Capacitor
10:24 - Powering your Flight Controller Separately
11:15 - Adding a Tantalum Capacitor??
11:39 - Electrical VS. Gyro Issues Summary
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@darrensmith8107 Жыл бұрын

Important note on capacitors, they have an effective voltage range. A 25v capacitor for example, is usually only rated for say 5-25v, Putting it on a 3.3v rail would not be effective. Using a 6 or 10v one would be a better choice. usually listed in the datasheet.

@MCsCreations Жыл бұрын

Thanks for all the tips, Mark! 😃 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

@phiveone Жыл бұрын

What I learned from all this. Speedybee needs to give you money for doing their troubleshooting. Good job sensei.

@offtheground9152 Жыл бұрын

Thanks, good info!

@gmivisualsjason3729 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant video thanks

@DavideFPV Жыл бұрын

Thanks for those great tips!

@propsoff Жыл бұрын

Very interesting Mark. I've used the Matek bec in this case. It has really nice filtration too. I would be really interested in your thoughts if you use one - don't forget to run a redundant ground.. *Like button smashed...👍🏻🍻👊🏻

@TJenga Жыл бұрын

I have several quads on the same frame but a few with different flight controllers/ESC’s but same frame motor combo. I thought some of them flew better than others and figured it was a Gyro issue because same pids would get terrible results on identical builds and great on others but when I went to 4.4 and tried presets for the first time with your 5” preset it confirmed I’m just terrible at tuning 😅 thanks for your presets and tip videos

@thewhitedillard Жыл бұрын

you are rocking them sweet t-motor props with you could find these 5143R can only get the updated S model

@billmcdonald4335 Жыл бұрын

I felt for ya when you 'fessed up to breakin' stuff, Mark. Sux when it happens, coz we only got our own meathooks to blame. Upside: most replacement parts are cheap, and they get here pretty quick. Downside: I always feel kinda sheepish for a spell, so I curl up in a corner, muttering softly, and slowly shake my head until the feels go away - dunno about you. :)

@uavtech Жыл бұрын

Yeah, there was lots of swearing.

@billmcdonald4335 Жыл бұрын

@@uavtech U a professional engineer; this ex-Navy type can imagine. . . musta been 24-karat.

@anarkngelfpv Жыл бұрын

You were talking about a separate power supply for the FC, on e.g. a cinelifter, but what about a LC filter? any good? thanks

@BikeGuyFPV Жыл бұрын

So, had an issue with a Radix 2 v1.2 FC. Finally figured it out for the last six months until as of recently. Have v1.0 boards on most of my rigs that work great with no issues at all. Got a few of the v1.2 boards and on my 5" freestyle rig the quad would just flip out and the ESC would reboot. Turns out for whatever reason, the v1.2 boards have bad filtering on the FC. The only fix I was able to come up with was to direct solder a 35v 220uF Rubycon ZLH series low ESR capacitor directly up to the FC's VBat and ground pads on the underside of the board. That fixed it but really shouldn't have to be doing this period.

@BRadFPV Жыл бұрын

CAUTION powering FC with separate voltage source on a Cinelifter as you loose VBAT in OSD. Not being able to monitor your main LIPO is INSANE IMO. You might be able to use ESC telemetery. In my case I replaced the Matek F722-HD with a T-Motor F7 Pro Full Function FC and problem was solved.

@joshualiang2377 Жыл бұрын

For the two FCs you used, did you install them with the F7 MCU side facing down to the ESC? I heard if you isolate the FC MCU with the 4-in-1 ESC by using a piece of copper tape, this will reduce the noise from the ESC.

@BRadFPV Жыл бұрын

@@joshualiang2377 - the FC was adjacent to the ESC stack. The Matek was unflyable with VBAT from ESC stack. It was flyable with clean Pololu power but no OSD. The TMotor FC is fine with ESC VBAT.

@pippifpv Жыл бұрын

Just setup a timer, either in the osd or following throttle position on the radio. Works perfectly on any opentx radio.

@BRadFPV Жыл бұрын

@@pippifpv - timers are ok for freestyle quads IMO. BUT for an X8 with a $7K RED Komodo and lens... I must insist on being able to monitor VBAT. Especially if a cell drops all of a sudden. Just too much risk.

@vahagnbekverdyan Жыл бұрын

I managed to eliminate the pitch noise almost completely on SpeedyBeeF7 V2, by just powering FC through an LC filter (220uF, 35V capacitor and 47uH inductor)

@charleswang3131 Жыл бұрын

Ive had this issue with the HGLRC BMI270 flight controllers. I am going to try using a voltage regulator to power the flight controller and see if that helps.

@jejefpv Жыл бұрын

Have you tried to put an anti-interference shield between FC and ESCs to see if it can make any difference ? Maybe a spike aborber might also help a little bit, it is mainly supposed to protect electronic but reducing spikes amplitude might also reduce electronic noise. I have never made any mesurements, but I usually use both (shield and spike aborber) in most of my builds.

@joshualiang2377 Жыл бұрын

What shield are you using? Would you please share the link?

@jejefpv Жыл бұрын

@@joshualiang2377 I use "DIATONE MAMBA INTERFERENCE ISOLATION BOARD V2", you should find it easily (I don't want my message to be deleted because of a link ;)

@24kJames Жыл бұрын

I imagine it's possible that we don't have Blackbox on many of the "cheaper," AIO FC's, because it might expose a lot more slightly defective units. This is just pure speculation, of course, but it aligns with what would likely be considered good business practice, from the perspective of a manufacturer anyway. Take for example the JHEMCU SP24S/PP24S ELRS receivers (which by nature, rx's get examined more closely, since you can't fly *at all* with a rx that wont bind,) that have been shown to have small issues preventing binding on certain firmware versions in some cases, and preventing binding entirely, on any firmware version, in others. From this example, it's clear JHEMCU are more than willing to ship large volumes of hardware with essentially zero QC, at least on the less expensive hardware. I wonder if they QC the boards that have BB included, but do not QC those without BB. Pardon my tangent here, but it was my first thought when I got to 2:24 in the video.

@ClintChapman Жыл бұрын

I recently had an issue when I changed an ESC and started get shakes. Switched out the flight controller and the problem went away. Do you think there's any chance one of those diatone ground plane isolators that go between the FC and ESC would help?

@UnmannedSky Жыл бұрын

As far as a FC with issues try and find a lumenier lux. That thing was maddeningly horrible with gyro issues.

@divingfalconfpv4602 Жыл бұрын

Hope my terraplane just aggressive pid tune. Not gyro. After a dive it hold altitude. I go zero throttle holds altitude till I tilt nose to get it flying again. Like a runaway but doesnt go up. I lowered D to betaflight default. Lowered P a lil lowered I a lil try keep ratios a lil

@jessiahd.6143 Ай бұрын

Im having this issue on a Axisflying Argus F7 pro stack combo. 4 in 1 ESC, 65amp. Im not sure how to fix it. Im wondering if just swapping tye FC with a new one same model would make a difference?

@american7169 Жыл бұрын

I'm having a weird issue and kinda think it's my gyro but maybe someone with more knowledge knows. I take off in angle, it flys level. Switch to acro for fun stuff, then coming in to land I switched back to angle and it goes sideways and backwards. Maxing out my stick for correction wasn't enough, had to switch back to acro. Any ideas?

@FPV_Cam Жыл бұрын

I've got a iFlight F7 FC with a mean yaw twitch/drift I could send you if you wanted. I just wired up a cap to the 5v rail but I'm not hopeful its going to fix it.

@uavtech Жыл бұрын

Sure. Trying to figure out if I should get a V2 again to continue the quest. 117 South State Street Box 504 Clarks Summit, PA 18411

@bluegradientfpv Жыл бұрын

Is there any way to fix the speedybee V2 pitch noise or should I replace it with the V3?

@joshualiang2377 Жыл бұрын

Maybe give this a try? www.diatone.us/products/mamba-interference-shielding-fpc

@Atlas_FPV Жыл бұрын

I have a funny issue with my tmotor F7HD flight controllers with the BMI270, they both oscillate on take off and then calm down, I’m convinced it’s an electrical issue.

@uavtech Жыл бұрын

That or PIDs just a touch to high or Anti-Gravity to high. Try lowing both, if still pretty much the same, yeah, personally I would log it.

@aowi7280 Жыл бұрын

You need to match the capacitance with the freq of the noise. You have low freq covered with the big cap on the battery leads. That is why adding a 330uF didn't do anything. You were on the right track with the tantalum. Adding a 10uf, 1uF, and a .01uF very close to the gyro will cover a wide range of freq. Good board mfrs should have done that already though.

@justinwalker8364 Жыл бұрын

The fact that you pitched forward wouldn’t cause more noise on the pitch axis?

@uavtech Жыл бұрын

No. It was still there when doing the roll. Noted the spikes on pitch when motors spin up to start and stop a roll. Finally, same moves on different quad and when FC is powered by a battery don't produce the issue.

@justinwalker8364 Жыл бұрын

@@uavtech appreciate the explanation!

@FPV_Thrills Жыл бұрын

I have better method how to test electic gyro noise. Open cli and write this set blackbox_mode = MOTOR_TEST ... save ... Then you remove the props, put the quad on something soft, and turn the motors with the keyboard arrows from 0% to 100% to 0% through the motors tab of the betaflight ... Uload the log to the pid toolbox-> spectral analyzer -> feq x time .The graph will show noise in quad control area 0-100hz if there is electrical noise exists. I have test like this zeus 35 "with bad gyro" ...

@FPV_Thrills Жыл бұрын

drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wFC_NM3vhBoUfGM0ziqPx__MBea8ImWe

@justinwalker8364 Жыл бұрын

I like to pid tool box too. On my quad now I have noise around 60hz in a vertical line but only on like 30-60% throttle. And only on the dterm chart. What do you think about it?

@uavtech Жыл бұрын

Prop wash?

@justinwalker8364 Жыл бұрын

It was a new build with tmotor FC stack. Been the cleanest one on logs I have done so far. After watching this video, I started thinking about the capacitor placement. And I’m gonna try a small one on the flight controller somewhere.

@UnmannedSky Жыл бұрын

Adding a cap to vbat works best. This video has a great oscilloscope demo of the difference - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ep-fidaZ2azHcpc.html

@carbendi Жыл бұрын

what cap size would be best on vbat for a 6s build?

@UnmannedSky Жыл бұрын

@@carbendi @Hurcan Emre Yılmazer I used a 35V 330uf cap on my speedybee f7 V2. It worked real well at clearing up noise in the unfiltered range between 50-100hz.

@carbendi Жыл бұрын

@@UnmannedSky Thank you very much for the information i will try that :)

@UnmannedSky Жыл бұрын

@@carbendi hope it works for you. You haven't lost much if it doesn't except for a few cents on a cap

@cinemoriahFPV Жыл бұрын

We always do that. Filtration on the 3.3v rail is an internal problem with the FC in this case.