Quadcopter motor won’t spin REAL WORLD TROUBLESHOOT10:08

Epic !

My favorite part is where you show yourself making simple mistakes like the rest of us. Remind us all its toys and to laugh and have fun!

Thanks… and why your honored.. this isnt alot, but very wrong! Much love bud and respect!
My brain still hurts on so much in BF.. forever for me!
J.IdolWell!

Funny video. I did learn something regarding the motor beeps. Thanks.

@Joshua Bardwell I wrestled with that board about a year ago. I was about to pull my hair out until I discovered that. At first you had to use the resource stated for that firmware. The new target didn’t exist yet. (RESOURCE MOTOR 6) for motor 4…silly lol

Was it the motor map? I haven’t finished yet but that’s my guess

I guessed wrong firmware. yaaaayyyt

5:55 what it sounds like when Ole JB learns something. lol ? ? ?

That’s not a beauty of troubleshooting, but an idiotism of every opensource project! That’s what had born a great hate to programing like arduino and rpi and all other opensource things. We say it russian “to work through an asshole”, and that describes all the libraries for each propouse on github. I do not absultelly need thousands of libraries for the same propouse with none of them works correctly. I need just one that works in the right way, and I see no problem to pay for it like 5-10$. The same thing with betaflight and emuflight… Why do I have to spent the whole weekend to tune my quad? Lot of parameters whith no correct descripption… Pidtool box just made it a little bit easier to tune pids and filters, but only when all “spoiling” parameters like boost, idecay, spa, iterm rotation, feathered pids and etc are disabled… And if I enable something like featherd pids I’ll have some strange behavior graphs on pids when before the gyro get to the setpoint it has a horizontal shelf at about 0.4-0.5 of the set point and than it goes up to the setpoint… If I turn on idecay it just make my quad slowly pitch or roll by itself… So the main question: why do I have to tune my drone by myself, if there are lots of autopid tuning programs? and also there is a great question about how is it when the drone fly in the right way? I mean a feeling of a perfect tune of a perfect drone? I do believe that even betaflight and emuflight developers do not know it… Maybe developers should decide about REFERNCE DRONE? Mathematicaly everyone should understand that perfect tuned drone is the one, which have no overshoot and fast following the set point… So that’s all about newbies who come to that hobby and have no any idea of how that thing should fly, how to tune it especialy when all the videos about tuning just talking about “THAT LOCKED FEELING” when you raising up P and etc..

LOL =P

Was this a BNF or whatever kit and pre-shipped with the wrong target? My 1st guess was the signal wire, but as soon as you went to the CLI, it seemed pretty clear something was amis. Great job! Thanks for sharing.

“I feel the buzz” – Joshua Bardwell

Haha, I had 3 Talon F7 mini fcs and that issue had my head scratching for a week before I had it working. They initially had the incorrect resource mapping so it took some time to get it fixed.

Good job JB

I think you learned something today ?

Joshua, you are a born master, those scientific troubleshooting chops are next to none !!! KUDOS to U senor BARDWELL !!! 😀

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This is exactly what happened to me. I flashed the wrong firmware. Took me forever to figure out and finally figured it out after I bought another flight controller and swapped it only to realize later that I flashed the wrong firmware after all the wires still worked with the new FC. Now I have another FC! Lol

I have the same FC and I use the TalonF7Fusion target, why would you use the legacy target?

Hey Joshua looking for some help as well. One of my front motors is not working right. I plug in the quad and get all 5 beeps from motors, but I arm the quad and one of my motors are pulsing(spins a little than stops over and over), I raise throttle and the drone will shut down and restart with the same beeps as I just plugged a battery in. Any suggestions or ideas? Thank you in advance ??

I think you just saved me a lot of $$$. ?

Built my first (and only up until this week) quad (RR CL1) about 2 years ago. I couldnt understand how it made such a loud init sound, where it came from (no obvious speaker on the FC) or why I still needed an external speaker. I flew it a bit and it collected dust. Never did FPV – LOS only. It’s so fast yet stable. I never wrecked it – unlike my attempts at heli – pro tip I learned circa 2000 dont try a .30 nitro swash as your first without simulator experience no matter what you think you can do. My last flight with it before I took a break from the hobby I actually used it to hang an 80M half wave antenna on the top of a tree. Lots of failed attempts at throwing rocks and using a sling shot/fishing pole. Anyway. Rigged up some string and stripped 12awg wire, flew over, yanked the string – antenna dropped (well, not the antenna but the rope I used to then pull it up) – boom. Also got my first contact that day. My mind exploded when I learned the sound came from the motors. Ive been into car/home audio for the same time. The answer has been in front of me the whole time. Ive never seen that from an RC before but it make so much sense. Its genius. Motors are basically speakers – without the part that pushes air which isnt even needed for higher frequencies. Apologies for the long comment but man – mind blown / mystery solved – amazing.

Hey what frame is that?

funniest vid ever.