Glad you are liking the T1. Flying buddies and I all agree it is a brilliant little aircraft. Last weekend we had a good test of it’s abilities in hilly windy terrain. Very controllable and quite manoeuvrable in gusty wind. Tough also, as I smacked a metal gate with little or no real damage. T1 is quickly becoming a group favourite!

Really fantastic maiden, Keith! 😃 Great job building it! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

Thanks for the overview Keith! Just ordered mine but will be using the Matek F411-WTE. Going to start printing your parts too. Thanks!

check the motor mounts, I lost a motor mid air and found mine didn't have the gasket behind the mount that stops the screws pulling through. Heewing sent me a replacement motor and mounts with the gaskets. They said there's been 3 versions, the first had no gasket and a different mount, the second has the new mount and no gasket and the last one has the gasket and new mount, I had the 2nd release.

@bonafidepirate

Жыл бұрын

Interesting! I knew there was an early version of motor mounting that tended to fail and pull the screws through, but didn't know there was two after that... lol I opened mine up and saw 4 screws each side rather than two, with a rather broad head on them. I didn't see a "gasket" of any sort, but wasn't looking for it either. Maybe I'll look again... Either way I'll be sure to keep an eye on them. lol

@madobox

Жыл бұрын

@@bonafidepirate I had the same with PNP. I bought it early and fixings get loose mid fly. Esc shorted and lost power. Also motors get hot and melt the plastic on second one.

Glad to see you went ahead and got a T1. It's a great little plane, just so easy to fly. Little tip though: put a bit of heatshrink on the canopy clasp (the bit the grabs onto to the spar) as it'll quite quickly get a bit loose and you'll risk losing your canopy and Thumb Pro

@bonafidepirate

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it doesn't feel super secure already... lol Probably fine for the canopy, but with the camera up there I wouldn't try too many negative G maneuvers. ;) I don't think the Thumb will stay on there long, I want to try to build it into a somewhat compact pan/tilt for a larger plane to see how it works there.

@horstknatter9823

Жыл бұрын

😊😊😊😊,c😊

@horstknatter9823

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😊😊

@horstknatter9823

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😊😊

@horstknatter9823

Жыл бұрын

😊😊

Nice build. It's important that air exit holes are at least as large as the intake holes or else you'll be increasing air pressure inside which leads to lower than expected readings by the barometer sensor. Have you tried temporarily clamping a choke on the pan servo cable where it enters the servo? If that works, then you can try the choke around the signal cable only, and if that works, then you can solder some SMD inductor inline with the servo cable and that jitter problem will be fixed. If you add a 12g MG pan servo, then you can put a Caddx Peanut upright on it and make it pan in sync with the FPV camera. I think that'll look cool. I'm going to try soldering a dummy WS2811 IC (without LED) in-line with one of the LED wires when I get around to building mine. Some things I may also do is add a rudder later with a 5g or less servo, and place the aileron servos on the top of the wings because I fly in the desert where everything is rough and soft green grass is non-existent and I don't want the horns to get hooked on anything.

Great video. I do love my T1. Btw yes sometimes the AS doesn’t show up with different FCs. But there are different air speed sensors that you can put the display. But I never know which one is going work, so just try them all.

@bonafidepirate

Жыл бұрын

In my case the airspeed is set up to work without a sensor, or "synthetic" as they call it. (estimated based on other sensors) It's just the OSD that's wrong, I have the OSD item showing data from the first airspeed sensor, which isn't present... lol I need to use this one, "OSD1_ASPEED_EN" but instead I enabled "OSD1_ASPD1_EN". Simple mistake! lol

As great as I am at crashing, I was so pleased to see the durability of this thing. And you're right, the construction is probably the most tidy and well fitting of about any plane I've seen for its type. I'm curious to check out the wing they put out some time ago.

@bonafidepirate

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it's a great little plane for sure! I've heard great things about the wing too, I think it would be another good one to build at some point.

Clean install!

@bonafidepirate

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Hmmmm ---- I'm trying to stay away from this but the build is SOOO clean bro!!! I'm jealous!!! Sentry

very cool! thanks for the details. I'm inspired to buy one now. I was just curious what is your AUW?

for your VTX try AeroPOD Aerodynamic Antenna I love this pagoda style antenna always installed on the bottom of airplane

I think you can easily install 1.3 antenna using a pigtail and requesting a custom true rc bottom feed with smaller leg, anyway you gonna have double more drug due to bigger antenna

Great setup, is it possible you can also share the STL for the pan camera?

Nice to see someone knows how to correctly mount an immortal T antenna upright!!! :)

@bonafidepirate

Жыл бұрын

Just mount it flat, and if anyone asks why tell them it's the trendy thing to do! :p

Awesome video, thanks. One question (if possible) I have a dsmx receiver, how should I connect motor 1 and motor 2's cables to the DSMX receiver? There is one power cable and 2 motor cables, this confused me, usually I used to connect throttle to the channel 1 and had no issues, but this one is different.

The 3d printed plate where is the GPS and the USBC from the FC are fixed only on one side? Isn't it moving when doing rolls?

Very clean build! The only thing that bothered me was having the RunCam recording the FPV antenna. I wonder if your FPV cam would sit 3/4" in front of the button of the RC Thumb with a pan turning them in tandem?

@bonafidepirate

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that camera placement is just an afterthought. If it had arrived before I built the plane up I probably would have mounted the FPV cam in the nose where it was meant to be, and the HD cam on top at the front of the nose. As it is, I wanted it near the CG so when I move it to another plane later it won't change much. ;) It also lets me see the plane moving around in the video after running it through Gyroflow. I've been playing around with that today, somewhat impressed for what it is. Overall the camera is what I'd call "good", but not "excellent". Plenty good for the price though. I've certainly seen better from the Peanut and Insta360Go. Those cost a lot more though, to be fair. lol Maybe after some tweaks this one will look better. I'll certainly try it on a pan/tilt mount of some sort in the future. I was thinking it would have a nice unobstructed view in the nose of the AR Pro as well.

Nice setup, do you have a link for the runcam thumb pro mount ?

Well done, Keith - I placed the Tank Solo in the rear fin. Try a 21700 pack for 3s or even a 4s with 18650 … that changes a lot. Motors will be able to run that

@bonafidepirate

Жыл бұрын

I do have a 3S pack of 21700s, they're 5300mAh Vapcells, I forget the C rating but it's pretty high from what I recall. It will fit if I remove the battery tray (could possibly design a new one that will work, not sure if there's room). I actually thought about moving the Crossfire receiver to the tail so I can run more power for telemetry without affecting other electronics in the front. On the last flight though, just using CRSF instead of Mavlink, and doing Mavlink emulation on the ground for one-way telemetry, I had a good solid link out to 4 miles with telemetry at 25mW. I'll probably just fly this for a bit, then when I get board I'll put it back on the workbench to let it evolve... lol

@bonafidepirate

Жыл бұрын

I just looked back at my order for those cells, they're actually 26650, not 21700s. I'll have to take a closer look at them now, not sure if they'll work or not! ;) www.vapcelltech.com/h-pd-54.html

please make a detail video how to use tbs telemetry from tbs remote to mavlink and access it with qcgroundcontrol etc asapp :D

I fly fpv quads, and my 5.8ghz isn't quite that far. Do planes generally go further because there's less electrical interference due to electronics being spaced far away from each other? (less interference)

Great maiden, from launch to landing was flying real nice. A real clean build. Love the upper deck installed over the FC for the GPS, etc. Nice upgrades with the tail-boom, pan-servo and LEDs. Appreciate the tip on 1 vs 2 ordering of LEDs. If run a 5V down the boom, you might be able to alternately fin-mount the Thumb Pro. (or tap-in off the rear servo power) Regarding the pan-servo jitter. The length of wire run from FC to the servo is similar to 900 MHz antenna. You could try adding some shielding to that servo (copper, or aluminum foil, then heat shrink, or tape over the shield so no worries of it touching conductive components) Regarding Crossfire: better MavLink support and telemetry are in the works (maybe a fall release, but they moving business locations, so timing could be impacted). See "TBS COUCH - Goodbye Agent X" live chat at appox from 1 hour 7 min. MavLink connection may not pass thru if emulation is on and using UDP.

@bonafidepirate

Жыл бұрын

I could try shielding the cable, though it's twisted already. Some of these old servos just don't work well around 900MHz, I'm pretty sure I haven't used one of these HXT500s on a 900MHz plane before this one. I might even replace the servo later if all else fails, I just used what I had on hand. I tried it with the extended PWM range for 180º and it worked, so I used it.

@Onefgear

Жыл бұрын

@@bonafidepirate I'd try a toroid

Hi the crossfire has too telemetry options 50hz and 150hz when your distance is increase the telemetry rate drops from 150hz to 50hz and the misionplaner cannot work on 50hz That's why you lose telemetry. Great video keep going

What are the cheapest motors and esc you can use?

Ah! Arduplane! Maybe a telemetry radio set. MRobotics has a tiny TX. Yappu Telemetry works well. My elrs 5.8 telemetry has great range on the Matek R2400D rcvrs.

@bonafidepirate

Жыл бұрын

It would have to be 433MHz, big antenna! lol In that case I'd probably just stick my 433MHz Nano Dragonlink receiver in it. I have one of those here, waited for the 915MHz version to be made, I don't think it ever was. The last I heard it was in the works, but that was over a year ago. I've never heard of MRobotics, just had a look at their products, there's some neat stuff there!

super cool build. Can you please link to the 3d printed battery holder for this?

@bonafidepirate

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I'll post them all soon, I wanted to make sure I don't have to make any final adjustments after flying them.

I've got some quick questions for ya about this particular build, I'm trying something similar but using a dedicated mavlink 900mhz telemetry system. What's the all-up weight and the tune? I know that you said that you'd release it a bit later so I'm leaving a comment so I remember to come back and check. Going with this, approximate stall speed and flight time would be nice information as well if you could provide it. Either way, awesome plane and an awesome build!

@bonafidepirate

Жыл бұрын

AUW is 541g without the Thumb Pro, I didn't check it with. I'll have to fly it a bit more to figure out the rest. ;)

@jeffpv7468

Жыл бұрын

@@bonafidepirate sounds awesome man, keep us updated, and love the vids keep em coming!

I was gonna ask your thoughts on this lil plane.....then i found your vid 😅

Why would the voltage be doing the warning flashing at 11.4V?

@dennisradoor

Жыл бұрын

FC probably thinks it's a 4S battery or something like that. It already flashes before takeoff, which probably just needs to be corrected in the setup.

@bonafidepirate

Жыл бұрын

Like Dennis said, I'd set the OSD to warn at 13.5V by habit, since I mostly fly 4S planes... (OSD_W_BATVOLT parameter) Just a visual thing that's on my list to fix! lol

When you figure out your amp going up and down, let us know. Mine is doing the same on my Hee wing F0-1 using Ardupilot.

@bonafidepirate

Жыл бұрын

What FC is it? There's a list of them here that's supposedly affected by switching noise from the ESCs. www.mateksys.com/?p=5712#tab-id-12 One of the Ardupilot guys that I mentioned it to said it sounds like my problem. I have one CAP on each speed controller, will add another on the FC itself and see if it settles down. I don't remember the exact numbers, but after the flight I had only used about half of what the mAh counter was showing on the OSD. Looking in the logs, the current reading was very erratic and noisy, as could be seen in the OSD too. I'll see if I can fix it up before the next flight.

@horsship

Жыл бұрын

I have the Matek h743 wing.

What a great maiden! Would you share your Arduplane configuration?

@bonafidepirate

Жыл бұрын

I can, but will wait until it's tuned up a bit more. I still want to go over the TECS stuff and make a few tweaks. Right now it's just a basic setup on the defaults, apart from the autotune I did in the video here.

@spartan3299

Жыл бұрын

@@bonafidepirate Sounds great and I'm in no rush for sure. I do think you should be compensated for your time if you would like.

@bonafidepirate

Жыл бұрын

@@spartan3299 Nope! I'm already fortunate to be able to keep building and flying and making videos, which I enjoy. I'm already getting enough compensation from you and others that support the channel too! lol Being able to help others if half the reason I do it. It won't take long though, I just need to get a few flights in after all the little bugs are worked out and tune a few things as I go. It's already flying very nicely though.

i wonder if using the nano rx pro, the one with 500mw telemetry downlink, would help with a good mavlink connection in the air, it's only a bit more money than the regular crossfire nano rx. anyways cool video, just got the ranger t1 and really excited to fly it!

@bonafidepirate

Жыл бұрын

I actually have the Nano Pro in this plane, but running it on low power. When I raised the power for telemetry output the GPS wasn't happy at all... lol I need to do some RF shielding and maybe move some things around and try again at some point.

@seanyfpv

Жыл бұрын

@@bonafidepirate huh i didn't expect that would happen but i guess it makes sense because it's a high power transmitting thing, looking forward to seeing if you get it to work!

i have an omnibus F4 think its the AIO, the one with the osd/ pdb build in design for a quad, but everytime i flash Ardupilot on it and connect it to mission planner its saying something about initializing baro firmware and then constanly saying cehck baro config cant remember exacly.

@bonafidepirate

Жыл бұрын

I'm not familiar with that board, I never used any of the Omnibus ones. Maybe try a quick search at discuss.ardupilot.org and see if anything comes up.

is your camera mount something we can print I didn't see it on thingaverse

@bonafidepirate

Жыл бұрын

It's posted here with holes to match the servo arms included with a TGY-1440A servo (that I used on the Nano Talon build), which is a much better servo for a small camera pan than the HXT500 I used here, if you can find one... lol It's a very rough design part though, not very "finished". Functional though! lol www.thingiverse.com/thing:5410861

@johndeesfpv9289

Жыл бұрын

@@bonafidepirate awesome thank you.

Hi, you have to set the rate in crossfire to 150hz. I had the same issues until I tried this out, I think it’s even wrong in the manuals.

@bonafidepirate

Жыл бұрын

My understanding is that you only NEED 150Hz while downloading parameters, but once that's done the standard Mavlink data should still get through 50Hz mode, albeit at a slower rate. That may not be accurate though, I know there's a few mistakes and discrepancies in the Crossfire manual and things change in firmware quicker than in the manual sometimes... lol I do know that in 50Hz mode bandwidth for telemetry is reduced and it will discard packages too. If that is the problem (I'm pretty sure it is), then the idea of a full Mavlink "tunnel" through Crossfire is not going to work for me anyway. The range in 150Hz mode is not enough to do what I want with the link to Mission Planner. (live tuning of parameters while flying and testing, such as I've done in the past with Dragonlink) I think I'll just scrap the idea for now, switch back to CRSF protocol between the FC and Rx, and use Mavlink emulation in the Crossfire Tx over WiFi to MP, so I can at least track it on the map until CRSF telemetry drops out. I think that will be a bit more robust and functional. At least in theory! lol

@captaincapuze9892

Жыл бұрын

@@bonafidepirate with 150hz I was able to reach appr. 10km before I lost my video link. Parameters etc. no problem, also using rc over mavlink on an old Omnibus F405. But it took me 2 years to get there, with a lot of frustration:). Keep on fighting!

have you happened to ever mess with the ELRS 2.4 control stuff?

@bonafidepirate

Жыл бұрын

I haven't used ELRS on anything yet. I've been using Dragonlink for everything large enough, and Crossfire 900MHz on my smaller ones. I'd like to play around with ELRS at some point just for fun, but haven't bought any hardware yet for it.

@b00sted_mx59

Жыл бұрын

​@@bonafidepirate thats fair, i also have crossfire, dragonlink an r9 aswell but ive been trying to move to smaller planes lately and wanting to move my quads to 2.4 from big crossfire antennas and what not, ive seen some pretty crazy ranges on 2.4 in their discord so i figured id give it a shot on a plane to play around with.

@bonafidepirate

Жыл бұрын

@@b00sted_mx59 Yeah for sure, if I were flying quads I would absolutely pick up some ELRS gear... lol Seems like the best choice there.

What transmitter does it bind too

@bonafidepirate

Жыл бұрын

It doesn't come with a receiver, so, I guess it depends on what receiver you put in it. ;) I have a Crossfire receiver in mine.

very nice. any chance we could get the STLs for the battery and GPS...

@bonafidepirate

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I'll post them soon, I wanted to make sure I don't have to make any final adjustments after flying them... lol

@alpinestar37r1

Жыл бұрын

Any updates on the GPS mount brother? I just got my T1 today and am super stoked!

@bonafidepirate

Жыл бұрын

@@alpinestar37r1 Yeah, I had linked them below the videos after this one, forgot to come back and add them here... lol I just did, but here's the link to the parts again: www.thingiverse.com/thing:5501633 The USB/GPS mount was updated a bit so it fits better, working great for me! Note you'll need a small bit of supports under the "tubes" that slide over the spar. If I'd left them shorter it would print with no support, but I like having them longer so it keeps the tray centered in the fuselage, it just fits better, and worth the tiny bit of supports it needs to print... lol

@alpinestar37r1

Жыл бұрын

@@bonafidepirate Thanks Brother!!!!

Must be nice to have a 3d printer

@bonafidepirate

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! I wondered what I would use it for until I got one, now it's the most versatile tool in my shop by far... lol