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The Build
It is important to check the flight controller can connect to Betaflight and the gyro is
working correctly before soldering anything, once something is soldered to the board
it will void any warranty.
Use of a flux pen and a small tip on the soldering iron is recommended as the pads
on the flight controller are quite small.
I found it easiest to mount the flight controller and motors and then cut wires and
solder. The order which is easiest is:
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XT60 connector
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Motors
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The rest
This approach means you will not be applying a lot of heat to the board to connect
something like an XT60 ground when something has a much smaller connection and
could get de-soldered by heat wicked from the XT60
It is generally good practice to use the following approaches:
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Use a smoke stopper during testing
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Use a multimeter to check the continuity (or lack of) before testing anything
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Do one component at a time and test before moving on to the next one
Configuration
There are three things to configure; the Flight controller, the ESCs and the FPV
components, a couple of general rules:
1.
PROPS -never ever ever plug the LiPo in with props on when you are working
on your quad. Quite aside from any damage to your equipment, this is likely to
cause a very angry, sharp and fast moving set of blades to make contact with
your face or hands and result in very serious injury. Always remove the props
when working on the quad, it is a pain in the bum but you do not want to learn
the lesson the hard way. Make it a habit.
2.
It is assumed the radio has been bound to the receiver, there are many guides
available on how to do this as well as instructions that come with the receiver
Configuring the Flight controller – Butterflight?
First we are going to use Butterflight here. I have set the quad up using Betaflight
and it worked fantastically. However there are builders guides already which explain
how to flash and configure Betaflight and the can be used for this quad just fine.
Butterflight is the new kid on the block so it is being used as an example.
To install Butterflight you need to download the Butterflight configurator from here
and install it
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