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This remind me of debug a flight control problem with my son's model airplane. We did a foam board stretch build of Model Airplane couple years ago. https://w
by srcmap 9y ago
This remind me of debug a flight control problem with my son's model airplane.
We did a foam board stretch build of Model Airplane couple years ago.
https://www.flitetest.com/articles/ft-guinea-build https://www.flitetest.com/articles/ft-guinea-build
After we flew a few times, we added a servo to the cargo bay to be open and drop small parachute from it.
After than, my son kept complained that he would loss control for 1-2 seconds while the plane is in the air from time to time.
After research on the net, eventually I figure out it was the addition servo. Each servo in that air plane use about 1 Amp of current depend on condition. The 5th servo actually drew enough current that causes the remote receiver to reboot while the plane is in flight.
That was a fun bug to figure out.
The RC receiver is actually very good design which can be reboot and be operational in ~1 seconds.