Starling Position and Manual Mode dysfunctional
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Hello,
My name is Ivy and I am using the Starling drone for research at my university. So, whenever I would arm it in position mode, it would immediately take off and hover 2 inches above the ground-would not get any higher than that-and hover to the left and would not receive any input from the commando 8 controller. Then, if you put it in manual mode and arm the drone, it would rise 2 inches off the ground and do an aggressive flip and crash-again not receiving any input from the controller. I recalibrated the drone through QGC and recalibrated the commando 8 controller and it would still veer to the left. Before, it worked as normal where you arm it and just the propellers would spin and received input from the controller. Before I flew the drone I looked for physical damage to the propellers or motors and there was not any. During the flights where it kept flipping I was checking the propellers and it was fine. Then after many flips and crashes one of the propellers tore a little bit on the front right motor. But the drone was veering to the left and flipping way before the propeller tore. I honestly have no clue how to fix the reason its veering to the left and immediately taking off when armed. I ordered new propellers but I don't think that is the solution for what's going on any help would be great!
Thanks,
Ivy
Here is the tear in the front right propeller
Here is the left side of the drone
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Hey!
Here is a link to videos of the drone veering to the left when flying. The new propellers have arrived and I will be replacing all the current ones. I don't think that will fix it though. A colleague of mine checked the amps of the motors and found that the back right motor from the camera was producing lower amps than the others. We hypothesized that the reason the drone kept flipping to the left is because the right motors were overcompensating maybe? I have no clue any advice would be appreciated.
1 - .05 amp Camera right front
2 - .031 amp camera right back
3 - .046 amp camera left back
4 - .045 amp camera left front
Starling Drone flight video: https://photos.app.goo.gl/RxEaN8YGxXUdh1j87
Thanks!
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@ijones2 Can you attach a log from the manual mode flight? (Perhaps with the messed up propellers so that you don't break the new ones)