QuadPod - the story continues

May 16th & 17th 2011

Snelflight support analyzed my problems and found a good reason why I had so much troubles.
I did not read the fine manual well enough and had the motors connected wrong. I had the motors connected clockwise 1 2 3 4 instead of 1 3 2 4.
Instead of going on the same way I did with the Mikrokopters, I should have read more carefully.
Phil, thank you for pointing this out.

Yesterday I received the replacement motors from Snelflight.
During my lunch break I replaced the broken motor but I was unable to get the multirotor in the air.

In the evening I gave it another try and eventually I had a successful flight.
As it was getting dark I added the LED strips.

The radio was set up to use the delta mixer for a + configuration. This worked fine from the beginning, but now I'm lost where to put the sticks for the Quadpod initialization...

I had a successful maiden flight in the living room.
Space was a bit tight, so I went outside and flew a bit in the garden.

Later I went up in the big room in the attic and was flying there. The Quadpod was behaving ok, although I had to get used to the controls
The Quadpod is behaving sluggish compared to the Mikrokopters, probably that can be corrected.

After a few flights in the attic, one of the motors refused to start. I was back to square one...

On the 17th I replaced the motor (pictures above) and the Quadpod is flying again. Out of the 4 motors I received with the kit, only one is left on the Quadpod. I must have received a bad batch of motors.

The Quadpod works again and I can finally start my practise flights in the garden and the attic

The wind caused by the Quadpod makes it hard to fly near the roof - no problem, it's good for practise if it's not too easy.

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Quadpod part 1 | Flying in the dark | Flying Wing