Progress on the 250 Mini Quad, I think I'm good for a test flight either tomorrow after work or on Saturday.
I have mounted all the gear, I'll tidy some of it up a bit later after I receive the MiniAPM. I will swap out the large GPS for the one on the miniAPM (unless it's larger than this one). I plan to move the FPV transmitter inside the cage once I get the miniAPM so that I can mount a mobius that I'll order in the next week or so. The antenna will be moved towards the back, unfortunately it will move it closer to the GPS receiver which is not good. I fixed the issue with the power module, seems I must have reset the APM and it was on no PM setting.
I've gone through all the setup items, learnt that lesson after the Tricopter....
GPS receiver is only so so, it took ages to get more than 3 sats and quickly dropped back to the 3 when inside (the Tricopters GPS maintains 4 or 5 in the same spot).
There are some oddities that I need to work through.... Firstly I'm not sure the compass calibration has worked (I'm using the internal compass - Bixler APM is a 2.5 version), it returned from the setup much quicker than it did for the Tricopter. Seems to get the right compass values through (the learn feature is on, so it should adjust over time anyway). It seems to arm regardless of what setting is in the APM, I enabled all checks and it still armed even though it the GPS was not locked on at all.
Pleased to say the MinimOSD is 5V converted, I built a small harness to flow 12v to the camera. I'll be doing this on all my MinimOSD's from now on.
So here are some pics:
Front view - camera has been hot glued in place. Will bolt in place at some stage in the future.....
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Side view - can see all the goodies tucked away. Will cover all the wires with mesh at some stage.....
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The motor wires are all cable tied back nicely, the main wiring harness is in view too.
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Travel position, GPS and Telemetry antenna folded down, I will remove the 5.8 GHz CP antenna when transporting where it could be damaged.
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OSD view, I need to flash it with MinimOSD-Extra and tell it that it's NTSC and not PAL (it is my first camera I bought - didn't realise it was NTSC till it arrived - handy to finally use it)
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Chris