So Ive had my Phantom 1 for a year now and never really did much with it except flew it stock as is with just a anti-jello mount with my Go Pro. I finally caved and bought a Beholder Lite gimbal with Alexmos controller and also a 400mw 5.8ghz transmitter coming back to a 7" screen mounted on my remote.
On first test I flew with my stock 8" props and it took off just fine, no issues, used the stock default gains, no adjustments to it. Seemed fine. I got it to run about 4-5mins on my stock 2200mah LiPo.
Im going to intend on running dual batteries with the side mount carbon fiber mounts (already on) just wanted to get it working right on single battery first.
Now here is the issue. I went ahead and got a set of 9443 props. Got a set of plastic ones first to try, then also got a set of balanced 9443 CF props (but wont use those yet until I got it working on the plastic ones). I put the 9443 plastic props on, again didn't modify the gains, and I could not get it to even take off. It acted like it JUST was about to lift off but couldn't. It basically just moves on the floor.
So then I took the Vertical Gain from stock which was 100 to 140 and tried again, still same thing. Cannot get the phantom to take off, it just seems its on the verge of taking off but cant get over the hump. If I put the stock 8" props, it has no issues.
My total weight with dual batteries will be 1349g. With just the single 2200mah lipo it will only be about 1134g.
What am I doing wrong? Should my gains be much higher? I saw the DJI manual said for something near that weight to go with something like 170, 170, 150, 140, 170/170 (Pitch, Roll, Yaw, Vertical, Pitch Attitude/Roll Attitude).
I would've thought simple going to 140 on the vertical would've been enough.
Finally Ive confirmed a few times to make sure the 9443 props are on there correctly. Ive matched it side by side with the 8" props that should be on those positions to make sure Im clearly not putting them on in the wrong place or backwards, not to mention it definitely wants to lift. So if I had them mounted wrong or incorrect I know it can tip it self over or airflow coming from the top instead of bottom.
Thanks
Dixit
On first test I flew with my stock 8" props and it took off just fine, no issues, used the stock default gains, no adjustments to it. Seemed fine. I got it to run about 4-5mins on my stock 2200mah LiPo.
Im going to intend on running dual batteries with the side mount carbon fiber mounts (already on) just wanted to get it working right on single battery first.
Now here is the issue. I went ahead and got a set of 9443 props. Got a set of plastic ones first to try, then also got a set of balanced 9443 CF props (but wont use those yet until I got it working on the plastic ones). I put the 9443 plastic props on, again didn't modify the gains, and I could not get it to even take off. It acted like it JUST was about to lift off but couldn't. It basically just moves on the floor.
So then I took the Vertical Gain from stock which was 100 to 140 and tried again, still same thing. Cannot get the phantom to take off, it just seems its on the verge of taking off but cant get over the hump. If I put the stock 8" props, it has no issues.
My total weight with dual batteries will be 1349g. With just the single 2200mah lipo it will only be about 1134g.
What am I doing wrong? Should my gains be much higher? I saw the DJI manual said for something near that weight to go with something like 170, 170, 150, 140, 170/170 (Pitch, Roll, Yaw, Vertical, Pitch Attitude/Roll Attitude).
I would've thought simple going to 140 on the vertical would've been enough.
Finally Ive confirmed a few times to make sure the 9443 props are on there correctly. Ive matched it side by side with the 8" props that should be on those positions to make sure Im clearly not putting them on in the wrong place or backwards, not to mention it definitely wants to lift. So if I had them mounted wrong or incorrect I know it can tip it self over or airflow coming from the top instead of bottom.
Thanks
Dixit