Initial setup:
Before use charge all batteries and use 4 fresh, good quality AA type Alkaline batteries in
the controller.
On the main charger for the cg035 battery there are 3 lights, they refer to each cell of the
battery, the first 2 will initially be red and will change to green when the battery is fully
charged. This may take some time. As much as 5 hours with the stock battery charger!
If you have the FPV model, then there is a USB charger which is used for both the monitor
and camera. Conversely this starts as having no light on it and changes to red once fully
charged. This usually takes about an hour for each, depending on your usb power supply.
NOTE
: before plugging the battery into the quad (which will switch the new model of CG035
on as there is no on/off switch) remove the foam pad covering the deans T connector on the
battery and clean the area around it.
Before even thinking about flight of the CG035 check and double check all screws,
most
especially on the motors
. Several have come with loose or even missing screws which hold
the motors on, try to get into the habit of performing this before
every
flight.
Only do the first test of the motors and initial start up with the props taken
OFF
. Mine tried
to take off for the moon when I first tried to idle the motors in manual mode. Fortunately I
was holding it down at the time. I had to calibrate everything twice in order for it to work
correctly.
Make sure when you are refitting the props that they are on in the correct position for the
motors direction of rotation, the motors with the
silver caps turn anti clockwise, the black clockwise
and on the props the leading edge (highest edge
when you hold it flat, highlighted in red) points in
the direction of rotation. The factory props have a
slight circular indent underneath around the hole
to indicate the downward face and the blades are
domed on top. Apparently someone got one a
while ago with 3 Clockwise props fitted from
factory and it did not go well at all.