Betaflight 4.0

[touchthebitum]

Hello
I just built my Bi copter and it seems that Betaflight 4.0 mapping is different from the 3.5 working version. When I throttle up, servos tilt in opposite direction. I tried to paste PID settings but it doesn’t work.
Any news on it?
Thanks

[Claude]

Hi,

I will start to build my Bicopter tomorrow. I will flash the KakuteF4V2 with Betaflight 4.0.3, and will post the results.

[touchthebitum]

Good ( crossed fingers) 😉

[Kevin_Erik]

If your servos are moving opposite of the intented direction, you should be able to reverse them in Betaflight. Thats the only thing i liked about Betaflight, being able to swap things around or remap Pads as needed. Other than that, its a complete cluster-(insert your choice of explitive here) for non-quads. So much of what people tune for is based on known good pids for specific hardware.

Here are some of the last Betaflight PID’s i used before swapping to dRonin.
https://rcexplorer.se/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/LOG00004LOG004_0_response.jpg

One change I’d make to this right off, is to Zero out the Yaw’s dTerm. Maybe start off with all values 20% lower and tune up from there. Other then that be careful taking the Yaw PID’s higher as they’re right at the point where you’d start to see oscillation. keep in mind that in all of my dRonin tunes the Yaw terms are signifigantly lower than Roll and Roll lower then Pitch ect. This makes the Pitch dominant over the other Axis, which helps to keep the copter stable. Even in reverse flight.

[Claude]

I just finished assembling and wiring the bicopter.

I flashed the KakuteF4V2 with betaflight 4.0.3, choose the bicopter profile, re-maped the 2 servos based on the informations here, and the servos move exactly as they should.

For the remaping, the KakuteF4 wiring description indicates how to wire for the bicopter: left servo signal from M3 pad and right servo signal from LED pad.

So you have to CLI type :
resource M3 none
resource M4 none
resource LED_STRIP 1 none
resource servo 1 A03 (previously used for motor 3 signal)
resource servo 2 C08 (previously used for LED strip signal)
save

Betaflight BICOPTER profile should then manage the servos as they should 🙂

[touchthebitum]

Great !
Thanks Claude !
I’ll try that.

[Kevin_Erik]

I used the Matek F405-STD paired with the Matek FCHUB PDB and FPV canopy. (Made wiring very simple) Running the Servo voltage at 7.4, having great Yaw response from this setup

Fpv canopy: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3571841

[Claude]

Hohoho first flight yesterday evening …

With default PIDs, unable to take off. Increasing wobbling of each servo …

I played a little bit with the PIDs, a now it flies !!!

Now I have to solve 2 issues:

– motors are a little bit hot

– It sometimes cuts power in the air and fall back to ground. I have to disarm / arm it to take off again. Any clue ?

[Kevin_Erik]

You can look over my old Bicopter / Betaflight thread to see what i did. It should show all of the settings used etc.

Kevin's Bi-Copter Thread

Off hand though, if your experiencing over heating, then your I and D values are likely too high. Now as for the shutdown in flight, that could be the ESC’s cutting throttle to keep from exploding. (Keep Yaw D @ ZERO)

I did however experience the same issue a while back. Ensure that you have he following CLI command set to OFF…

runaway_takeoff_prevention

[Claude]

I can say the motors are not overheating, they are just warm … and both ESCs are still cold.
And both motors stop at the same time … Failsafe issue ??? I have to investigate 🙂

I will try to lower I and D on the different axis …

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