Sbus receiver

[harsh ember]

I have a fs-ia6b receiver with i6 transmitter and I was able to wire it to my radio link f722 flight controller but in beta flight no matter what I do my receiver wont respond to beta flight ( I wired it to 5v, R3, and g pads on my flight controller)

[lament monolith]

show your wiring

ia6b is IBUS not SBUS btw

unless you have an i6x which can reconfigure it

[harsh ember]

I don’t have pic rn I’m at school but I did a good job with the soldering and even checked if there was any current flow

This the receiver

[lament monolith]

and now I REALLY want the photo

90% of times someone gets defensive about their wiring, it's wrong

[harsh ember]

lol I’ll send when I get back in an hour or so

[harsh ember]

Maybe that’s the issue

But I don’t know where to connect it to the receiver

[lament monolith]

yeah that's the most common mistake with the ia6B

[harsh ember]

Even the the pads were 5v, r3, and G

[lament monolith]

which is why I'm asking

[harsh ember]

Which slot should it be in

[lament monolith]

IBUS SERVO

the horizontal one

[harsh ember]

Hmmm ok the top right?

[lament monolith]

yeah

Remember this: IBUS, unless worked around, does not tell Betaflight that it lost signal, and the drone may fly away upon loss of signal.

Ask for a workaround once you get it basically working.

[harsh ember]

So what do I do in beta flight

[lament monolith]

we'll get to that once you're back and have betaflight configurator running

[harsh ember]

So are the soldering pads correct

[lament monolith]

that depends on both ends of the connection

so I can't give you an answer

generally speaking they're the right pads

but I have no idea if they're connecting to tthe right things on the receiver

[harsh ember]

Ok will you be available later

@lament monolith ?

[lament monolith]

maybe, idk

late

[harsh ember]

Alr

[lament monolith]

In case you need it later and I'm not around:
Here I explained to someone else how to fix failsafe (loss of signal behaviour) with i6 + ia6b + Betaflight
#1327795724527603722 message

[harsh ember]

His is with ppm though

[lament monolith]

no, it's IBUS

I'm not evil enough to let someone run PPM

so half of the thread was fixing that mistake of theirs

[harsh ember]

To be honest I don’t get what’s happening in there

[lament monolith]

Ehhh... k I'll rewrite it

[harsh ember]

Are you sure?

I’ll just wait for you to answer to be honest it will be much easier

[lament monolith]

idk if I'll be available and this is critical info to prevent you from having your drone fly away like mine did 🙂 @harsh ember

https://discord.com/channels/536623076796923924/1329559185389654056

[harsh ember]

Wdym by it flying away

How would it happen?

[lament monolith]

Receiver loses signal, and decides to maintain previous input values - like 50% throttle for example.
Betaflight has no idea that it should failsafe, since the receiver isn't telling it anything about its signal status, so it just keeps flying.

If you're unlucky enough, the drone was pointed away from you when it lost signal, so it keeps flying even further away out of signal range.

[harsh ember]

So I should keep the drone closer to me?

[lament monolith]

okay, let's say that you have 50% throttle and you drop your radio by accident

batteries fall out of it, and the drone loses signal...

but it has no idea that it lost signal

[harsh ember]

ohh

[lament monolith]

so it keeps happily flying away at 50% throttle

[harsh ember]

What if it goes out of range without that happening

[lament monolith]

?

[harsh ember]

Like I fly it to far

[lament monolith]

same thing

[harsh ember]

Loses signal

Would I get like a warning before it happens

[lament monolith]

The radio may try to warn you but it's not very reliable

unfortunately, the receiver doesn't tell Betaflight anything about its signal quality

[harsh ember]

So should I switch to radio link

[lament monolith]

GOD NO

that's even worse

[harsh ember]

oh poop

[lament monolith]

ELRS

[harsh ember]

I can only shop on Amazon though

[lament monolith]

ELRS.

[harsh ember]

Does elrs work with my transmitter?

[lament monolith]

No

same story as radiolink tho

RadioMaster Pocket + any ELRS 2.4GHz receiver

will give you 10x the range of Flysky/Radiolink

(I'm not even exaggerating)

[harsh ember]

Like how much range

3 miles?

[lament monolith]

Most likely, yeah

[harsh ember]

How much do I get now

[lament monolith]

the pocket has a 250mW ELRS transmitter
The i6 has a 100mW AFHDS2A transmitter
ELRS is MUUUUCH more efficient than AFHDS2A

and you get double the power

[harsh ember]

Oh wow

Wait so where could I buy a radio master

[lament monolith]

should be on amazon

not the best prices tho

[harsh ember]

Amazon?

[lament monolith]

?

you have to look it up yourself, my amazon results will be completely different from yours.

RadioMaster Pocket is the cheapest ELRS radio worth buying.

[harsh ember]

It’s not there

[lament monolith]

In fact, it's the cheapest radio worth buying period.

that's odd

what country?

[harsh ember]

Usa

[lament monolith]

https://www.amazon.com/RadioMaster-Pocket-Portable-Controller-Charcoal/dp/B0CJ1YKGQX

idk if this offer exists in USA

but this is just one of many

RadioMaster makes other ELRS radios as well, all of them are great

[harsh ember]

Is there any other transmitter that I can get off Amazon

That works elrs

[lament monolith]

Just make sure it's ELRS, not CC2500, not 4in1

because these radios exist in non-ELRS versions as well

[harsh ember]

Where else can I buy the radio master other than Amazon

[lament monolith]

Any FPV shop

RadioMaster is currently, by far, the most popular radio manufacturer

and ELRS is by far the most popular protocol

https://www.getfpv.com/radiomaster-pocket-radio-cc2500-elrs-2-4ghz.html

[harsh ember]

Nvm Amazon real good

Is this good

[lament monolith]

lemme check if it's supported

quick note: since ELRS is so popular, many manufacturers have started making ELRS hardware without consulting the ELRS team

so it's best to check if it's supported

before you buy

[harsh ember]

How do I check

[lament monolith]

ExpressLRS Configurator

it has a device selection

and you see if what the manufacturer tells you the receiver is exists in there

[lament monolith]

According to the PDF manual for this receiver, it's a HGLRC Hermes 2400RX
That one exists in ELRS Configurator so it seems safe enough?

[harsh ember]

So it’s good?

[lament monolith]

There is a slight doubt in my mind.

[harsh ember]

And also in the mean time while requesting return on Amazon it’s possible if I just use the fs for now

Corrrct?

[lament monolith]

HGLRC says that it's a HGLRC Hermes
But those Hermes receivers, according to ELRS docs, look a bit different than this one.

I sent a question in an internal ELRS chat, to see whether this receiver was officially tested.

If you want officially supported receivers, RadioMaster RP1 or Happymodel EP1 are rock solid.

[harsh ember]

Alr but I can use the one I have for now yes?

No problem if I change it later?

[lament monolith]

No problem.

We can get the flysky in the air.

[harsh ember]

ok man I actuslly appreciate ur help

Like thank you a lot

[lament monolith]

flysky just has that failsafe annoyance, is difficult to get signal quality info out of, etc

np

[harsh ember]

How much range would I get with my fs

[lament monolith]

It's.. complicated.

It literally depends on todays and yesterdays weather.

[harsh ember]

is 0.5 miles to much?…

[lament monolith]

In a clear, dry area with no obstacles it is doable

water and ground are problematic

Wet trees are signal death

Wet grass to an extent as well

[harsh ember]

Sounds good

[lament monolith]

if it rained yesterday, beware of trees

[harsh ember]

Would I be able to full throttle or would it burn my motors

[lament monolith]

I know nothing about your drone lol

only FC and receiver

[harsh ember]

Would you mind if I told u the parts

[lament monolith]

Note about the HGLRC receivers (got response from an elrs dev):
They haven't been officially tested, but they don't look problematic.

[lament monolith]

I would very much like it if you told me the parts

would make my work easier

[harsh ember]

It’s the f722 stack radio link

I’m also not gonna add fpv or gps

This is the motor

[lament monolith]

mt2204 is small, ancient and fragile

at least for a modern 5" drone

[harsh ember]

It’s 5 inch

They are pretty big in size though

[lament monolith]

In modern days you'd be looking more at 2207

or even larger than that

[harsh ember]

But I don’t do anything crazy

So is it a problem that I have emthem?

They were extremely cheap

30 bucks

[lament monolith]

My main problem with it is that it has an aluminium prop shaft

which means that you need to have a CW and CCW variant (one of those has a reverse thread)

since you can't tighten the nut onto the prop too hard

[harsh ember]

What’s that

[lament monolith]

On a 4 motor drone, two motors spin clockwise, two spin counter-clockwise.

[harsh ember]

Yes they do that

[lament monolith]

If you put the same direction of prop shaft thread onto all of them, two will try to loosen their prop nut when they spin

[harsh ember]

They all soon different directions

Spin

But I can also just solder in the other way correct?

[lament monolith]

You can't solder a thread on a prop shaft

[harsh ember]

What do you mean?

[lament monolith]

In modern days, the propnut loosening problem was solved by having a very strong prop shaft, and using a locknut with a lot of tightening force.

In olden days, this was solved by having a variant of the motor with a reversed thread

[harsh ember]

So what do I need

[lament monolith]

you need to re-read what I wrote from here:
#1329551621096476733 message

[harsh ember]

Found this in my camera role

Tell

Roll

[lament monolith]

the thread on two of the motors should be reversed

it shouldn't take a normal nut

[harsh ember]

What’s a thread

[lament monolith]

it needs a nut with a reversed thread

[harsh ember]

I don’t get it sorry

[harsh ember]

Oh I get it now

It’s fine for me to be honest they screw are glued to the prob

Prop

[lament monolith]

??

[harsh ember]

Like they won’t listen the screw

Loosen

[lament monolith]

what is glued where

[harsh ember]

?

[lament monolith]

^

[harsh ember]

I mean that the screw it very good tight on the motors

It’s not touching them

[lament monolith]

I am not anywhere near drunk enough for this..

[harsh ember]

lol I’m sorry

I like know nothing about these

Either way I tested the motors out already in beta flight

They worked good

[lament monolith]

this is a prop shaft

[harsh ember]

OOHHHHH

[lament monolith]

and it has a thread on it

[harsh ember]

you meant from the top

[lament monolith]

nowadays, these shafts are steel or titanium alloy

so you can crank the prop nut down like crazy

so all of the motors can have standard thread

and you won't really have a problem with 2 of the motors unscrewing the nut

[harsh ember]

It comes with stuff to keep them shut

[lament monolith]

but your motor has an aluminium prop shaft

so if you crank it down, it will come off (the entire shaft, ask how I know)

[lament monolith]

?

[harsh ember]

Like closed bolts

Nuts

[lament monolith]

OBVIOUSLY IT COMES WITH NUTS

the problem is the direction in which you tighten them

[harsh ember]

OHHHHH

[lament monolith]

when a motor spins, it either tries to loosen or tighten the nut

[harsh ember]

so it doesn’t loosen them?

Now I get it

[lament monolith]

So in old days, 2 of the motors would have a reverse thread

[harsh ember]

what if I put eniugh pressure

[lament monolith]

you have an aluminium prop shaft

it will break.

That's why old motors came in CW/CCW variants

[harsh ember]

What if I just glue it 😭

[lament monolith]

and that's why modern motors, with steel shafts, don't

[lament monolith]

Either the glue is too weak and doesn't do shit
Or it eats the material the prop is made out of (loctite does this)

so

did you get 2 motor directions?

[harsh ember]

Alr I’ll work on that later but my main problem is the receiver for now

[lament monolith]

check if the motors have CW/CCW written on them

[harsh ember]

I’ll check when I get home but I don’t think so

[lament monolith]

aight

actualy

did you get black and silver nuts with the motors?

or are they all one color?

apparently, black/silver is how they differentiated the nut thread direction

[harsh ember]

Yea that’s what they look like

But I already soldered them

[lament monolith]

well, you'll have to figure it out later then

[harsh ember]

Your right

I’m coming home rn

but you can help me with my issue correct?

[lament monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/robert-downey-jr-tony-stark-gif-26471287

[harsh ember]

When will u be available if not

[lament monolith]

I have like 30 min of availability left

(til 23:30 in my tz)

[harsh ember]

Oh

When will you be available after

Would it be fine if you make a few amount of time for me? I’m almost home

[lament monolith]

IBUS wiring

black = gnd
red = 5V
white = signal (to RX3 or RX-side of whatever free UART you've got)

[harsh ember]

Wat do I do on beta flight

[lament monolith]

in BF Configurator, you want to have (only!) Serial RX ticked on (only!) the right UART (RX3 = UART3)

Also, you need to have BF flashed with IBUS support

[harsh ember]

How I do that

[lament monolith]

In Receiver tab, select the IBUS protocol (and save, always save)

[harsh ember]

It is I think

I did that yesterday though

[lament monolith]

if the bars on the left side of Receiver tab have values in them

then you have IBUS support

if they're empty

then you don't

[harsh ember]

The bars?

Like the color ones?

How do I get ibus support

[lament monolith]

here you can see them with values

if they're blank instead, then the firmware doesn't do IBUS

To get IBUS support, you need to flash the BF firmware

at the top is a Update Firmware button

BUT FIRST

if you have any settings that you don't want to lose

make a backup in Presets tab

there is a Save Backup button

sorry for the rush but I rly need to go to bed 😂

[harsh ember]

It’s fine but thanks so much man

Please ping me when ur available

[lament monolith]

Once you press Flash Firmware, you should quickly get to a moving progress bar, at the very bottom where it currently says "Please load firmware file"

If it gets stuck, and you're on Windows, then you'll need to fix the drivers and retry.

ImpulseRC Driver Fixer is a common tool for that (alternative tool: Zadig. Use on "STM32 BOOTLOADER" ONLY)

[harsh ember]

Ok thanks

[harsh ember]

For some reason my motors are all spinning in ome direction

And when I test them only all can be selected

Not individually

[oak meadow]

Like when using the sliders on the right side of the Motors tab?

[harsh ember]

I’ll show you @oak meadow

They all spin the same direction too

@oak meadow

[oak meadow]

In the CLI tab, type in resource and press enter. Are all the motors assigned to different pins?

[harsh ember]

@oak meadow

[oak meadow]

Huh. And you've restored the backup you made already, right?

[harsh ember]

I don’t know

[oak meadow]

Did you make a backup before flashing?

[harsh ember]

Oh yes I did

But that wasn’t an ibus

[oak meadow]

That's okay. So you restored the backup, then set the receiver protocol to IBUS?

[harsh ember]

Yea

Flynn

@oak meadow u there?

[oak meadow]

You don't need to ping me every 5 minutes lol

What is the motor protocol set to?

DSHOT?

[harsh ember]

sorry

[harsh ember]

Yea

On the back up or?

[oak meadow]

In the current Betaflight configuration

[harsh ember]

Yea d shot

[oak meadow]

This probably won't do anything different, but what happens if you turn on bidirectional DShot?

[harsh ember]

Nothing

I already did it

What is there I should do?

[oak meadow]

Did the motors ever work properly?

[harsh ember]

Yea

They did

[oak meadow]

When did that change? Did they only stop working after flashing firmware?

[harsh ember]

Yea

They stopped after flashing firmware

[oak meadow]

And I assume you made sure these settings were all correct?

[harsh ember]

Yea

[oak meadow]

Is everything else working? Gyro, receiver, etc.?

[harsh ember]

Yea

Everything

It’s basically a working drone now but the motors aren’t working the way they should be

[oak meadow]

Hmm... I guess you could try resetting everything to defaults, then reconfiguring from scratch

Make sure you don't delete that backup you made though, so you can revert back to it if need be

[harsh ember]

Ok

Did that

Brooo

Same thing

[oak meadow]

How did you reset it? If you've not tried already, you can try flashing and enabling the "full chip erase" option

I think it's hidden behind the advanced options

[harsh ember]

Ok

So flash it again?

[oak meadow]

Yeah

[harsh ember]

Ok

It also does this

Only 2 motor twitch

[oak meadow]

This is after resetting the whole thing and then setting the motor protocol and stuff?

[harsh ember]

Yea didn’t work

[oak meadow]

Ugh. Last thing - check the firmware version of your ESC, maybe it's like... super old or something. Betaflight recommends BLHeli_32 v32.7 so if it's older than that then you can try updating the firmware

[harsh ember]

It’s 4.5

[oak meadow]

?

Is that perhaps the Betaflight version number?

If that is the ESC version number, what kind of firmware is it running?

[jagged prism]

The ia6b does actually do signal telemetry

[harsh ember]

I just downloaded it though

Like a day ago

So it should be up to date

[oak meadow]

And it still worked after you updated the ESC but before you updated your FC, right?
What kind of firmware is it running?

[harsh ember]

I don’t know how to check

[jagged prism]

https://youtu.be/WwYNS_EANkQ?si=MXErbRkp75BtOLkR&t=122

[harsh ember]

Give me 15 minutes I gotta go to something

[oak meadow]

How did you update the ESC firmware then?

[oak meadow]

You sure he isn't running modded firmware?
https://github.com/Cleric-K/FlySkyRxFirmwareRssiMod

[jagged prism]

It’s reporting to my radio, not necessarily to any hypothetical flight controller

[oak meadow]

Oh lol that's you in the video 😭

[harsh ember]

How would it be old if it worked before

[harsh ember]

.how would it be old if it already worked

[oak meadow]

Purely speculation on my part. But it's possible that there's some kind of version incompatibility between your new version of Betaflight and whatever firmware your ESCs are running

[oak meadow]

What exactly did you download like a day ago? I suspect we may not be talking about the same things. Or that there's some sort of misunderstanding

[harsh ember]

Ohhh

I understand what you mean

I’ll check right now ome sec

How do I check the esc

Filmware

@oak meadow sorry for ping

[oak meadow]

BLHeli Suite 32

[oak meadow]

Errr I guess it's called BLHeli_32 Suite. It's a separate program that talks to the ESC instead of the flight controller

[harsh ember]

Wym

Is it not on mine?

[oak meadow]

Oh wait I forgot they shut down BLHeli_32 😭 You wouldn't be able to update the firmware anyway through that

I'm not really sure what to try next, Maybe once @lament monolith is awake and free again they'll be able to help

[harsh ember]

Should I just solder and switch the wires

[oak meadow]

No. You said the motors were working before, and that the only difference between then and now is that you updated the FC firmware. So it's not a hardware issue

[harsh ember]

If I switch 2 wires in 2 motors they spin dif detection

[oak meadow]

That's true. That won't solve the issue though

[harsh ember]

Hm ok

When do u think he wakes up

And will he be available

[oak meadow]

When he starts helping you again

[harsh ember]

I gotta sleep too tho

I have a lot time left tho

[oak meadow]

Just be patient. He's got a life outside of the server, no one's beholden to helping you. He'll help when he can

[harsh ember]

oh true sry

Wait

I gotta a question

Does soldering on the fc affect anything?

[oak meadow]

It can 🤷

[harsh ember]

Cuz my sister was messing around with the fc and she soldered wires on the fc

Horridness job but it was on the pads

[oak meadow]

What pads were soldered?

[harsh ember]

5v R2 and G

I can show a pic of the fc

[oak meadow]

If something got bridged then it could cause an issue. A component also could've gotten fried, but that's unlikely since everything works

[oak meadow]

Sure

[oak meadow]

Yeah so I would redo all those wires on the left lol

Try to clean up the excess solder as much as possible too

[harsh ember]

Those are the fricked up ones

Do u think that will make a difference

[oak meadow]

This pad might also be bridged to like 2 other pads

[oak meadow]

It's possible. It also can't hurt to redo them

[harsh ember]

Alr

I’ll see but this was yesterday btw

But it was after I checked the motors

So I don’t know if this actuslly caused it or not

It may have been the problem but there’s also this

089 left side

She got solder in there

[oak meadow]

If it looks like it's not bridging anything, I would leave it alone unless you're confident you can resolder surface mount components

[harsh ember]

That’s not what I’m saying

Do u see the 06o

69

89

Look the metal

[oak meadow]

This part?

[harsh ember]

No the other side

On top of the number

Look at the difference

This one is on the right side

And it’s clean

[oak meadow]

OH

[oak meadow]

Yeah 😭😭

[harsh ember]

Is that the problem

[oak meadow]

Yes certainly

If those are bridged

[harsh ember]

so that’s what’s making the motors like that?

[oak meadow]

Can't say for certain, but it's likely

[harsh ember]

That’s gonna be so hard to clean

[oak meadow]

Yeah. FWIW if you have a desoldering braid you might be able to verrry carefully get that off

[harsh ember]

I have a cheap solder

?

What Fwiw

[oak meadow]

"For what it's worth"

[harsh ember]

Dude I have only a cheap solder

[oak meadow]

Factories have to use unleaded solder, so if you're using leaded it'll have a lower melting point; you might be able to get it off okay

[oak meadow]

Oh a cheap soldering iron?

[harsh ember]

Yea

[oak meadow]

Gotcha. That'll certainly make it more difficult

[harsh ember]

Should I just buy a different controller :/

oh my god bro I just remeber something

[oak meadow]

I would try to get the solder off, if you don't mind spending time on it

[harsh ember]

I remebered I had this spare speedy mine mini f4

Bee

[oak meadow]

Is that the same size?

[harsh ember]

Smaller

But I can still use it to test the motors

[oak meadow]

Sure. I would try to fix the solder on your current FC though. Then if you can't fix that one, use your spare to make sure it's a problem with the FC. If it is, then you can buy a new FC

[harsh ember]

Yea but I just wanna see if this will get the motors to spin right

[oak meadow]

Sure 🤷

[harsh ember]

If it’s not the same size will it not work?

It worked

The thing with this one is I’m able to spin one at a time

But it won’t let me rotate it

Like switch the direction

[oak meadow]

What version of Betaflight is it running?

[harsh ember]

Ahhh 4.4

[oak meadow]

It should be able to reverse the motors then

Does the switch that flips all of them work?

[harsh ember]

No

They just won’t flip directions

What do I type in cli to check

Oh nvm got it

I might just use the mini would that be fine?

[harsh ember]

@oak meadow ??

[oak meadow]

Not really. The gyro is on the flight controller so if you don't have a good way to mount it, it will not fly well

[harsh ember]

@oak meadow

And it’s over hearing too

Heating

[lament monolith]

it tells the radio, very unreliably, but not BF

[lament monolith]

so I guessed right with the 90% thing huh

[harsh ember]

nahhh

I actually did real good job

Look at the soldering skills

My computer science teacher let me use his solder

[harsh ember]

@lament monolith wgat do I do in this situation

I switched to the speedy bee mini because my f722 ain alive no more

But jow the speedy bee over heating

[lament monolith]

did you check the ESC wiring?

what killed the F722?

The FC to ESC wiring is NOT standardised

it differs between FC/ESC manufacturers

so you sometimes have to repin connectors

[harsh ember]

Wym

I bridge checked them all

[harsh ember]

U gotta start talking to my like a child cuz god I don’t understand what u mean

[lament monolith]

there are 8 wires in the FC to ESC cable

[harsh ember]

yes

[lament monolith]

their order is not standardised

[harsh ember]

Wym

So what should do in this case

[lament monolith]

one manufacturer may do GND BAT M1 M2 M3 M4 TELE NC
other manufacturer may do BAT TELE M4 M3 M2 M1 GND NC

[harsh ember]

Do u want me to show u ?

[lament monolith]

I want you to take a look and check

[harsh ember]

The fc and the esc

[lament monolith]

afk 45min

[harsh ember]

ok

[harsh ember]

Here’s my esc and here’s the fc

How do you know so much bru

[harsh ember]

@lament monolith ?

[lament monolith]

well, that took longer than I expected

[lament monolith]

show what the cable looks like when plugged into FC

[harsh ember]

Like r hi a?

This?

[lament monolith]

at first glance it looks like it's wired up correctly

[harsh ember]

So what should I do

If it it keeps blinking or heating up

[lament monolith]

Well, heating up to some extent is normal

[harsh ember]

No like it start to sound like a jet

And it would literally hurt my hand to touch

[signal wolf]

This entire thread looks like if 2015 was a drone

My first quad was almost identical to this one as far as the rx, frame, and motors go

[harsh ember]

Do u know a way to fix it

[oak meadow]

What part is making the noise?

[harsh ember]

Idk

I think the motors

Or the controller I’m really not sure

[oak meadow]

When does it sound like a jet?

[harsh ember]

When I try it out with my receiver

[oak meadow]

So... while flying?

How is the FC mounted?

[harsh ember]

Horribley mounted

It’s not even the right size

[oak meadow]

So as I said before, I wouldn't expect it to fly well

[signal wolf]

This is like trying to fix a model T and expecting to drive it onto the highway

[harsh ember]

But it would heat up?

[oak meadow]

Not really. The only thing that usually heats up is the VTX in my experience

Double check you've not connected a high voltage wire where you're not supposed to?

Also... is the mini rated for whatever battery you're using?

[harsh ember]

I’ll check

Where do I check?

[harsh ember]

Jow

My battery 3s

[harsh ember]

@oak meadow

I’m just gonna buy a new one

[harsh ember]

@lament monolith any suggestions?

[harsh ember]

Any suggestions?

@oak meadow @signal wolf

[oak meadow]

What are you asking?

[harsh ember]

This is what I was saying

Did u not here it was ab to explode

[oak meadow]

Pretty sure that's just runaway prevention?

[harsh ember]

This is the second fc

[harsh ember]

The exploding noise?

[oak meadow]

What exploding noise?

[harsh ember]

I didn’t hear the end?

[oak meadow]

At 10 seconds?

[harsh ember]

Yea

It’s so hot too

Like it burns my hand

[oak meadow]

That sounds like the motor stopping itself. I don't hear any explosion 🤷 I might be wrong though

[oak meadow]

The flight controller?

[harsh ember]

It sounded like it was about to explode

[harsh ember]

Yea the mini

[harsh ember]

This one is the radio link fc

[oak meadow]

What on the board is heating up?

Does it heat up only using USB?

[harsh ember]

Every thing

In the flux was melting

[oak meadow]

So maybe it's the ESC that's heating up?

[harsh ember]

It wasn’t hot though?

[oak meadow]

Okay 🤷

[harsh ember]

And when I did it with a different fc like in this video the fc wasn’t heating up

[oak meadow]

The heat will be generated by something though. The entire board is not going to heat up uniformly

Does it heat up when you only plug in USB?

[harsh ember]

I don’t think so

Oh no it’s heating up

[oak meadow]

And it's the entire board that's heating up?

[harsh ember]

It’s coming from the other side of the usb

That spot

[oak meadow]

Is anything bridged?

[harsh ember]

I did some soldering

Maybe that’s the provlem

So I’ll unsolder everything

Check if that’s the problem

[harsh ember]

Nahhh

It didn’t work

Same problem

No bridging too

[harsh ember]

Where esc or fc?

[oak meadow]

The board that's overheating; the fc

[harsh ember]

Nah

But maybe there’s bridging on the efc?

Or no actuslly cuz it works on beta flight