I swear that I am about a couple more tries from testing how well this goddamn flight controller holds up in a blender!
I bought two of these flight controllers nearly 6 months ago and still, to this day, am unable to accomplish a decent static calibration! Fuck! For the record, I am not retarded (at least, i don't think i am -- but considering this...maybe?). I have very much experience with both electronics in general (as I am a university educated graduate in the field of electrical engineering) as well as with all sorts of avionics and r/c electronics. I follow the instructions to a "t" and the best I can achieve looks like I strapped this piece of shit to a vibrator while performing the calibration! The only graphs that look acceptable are the three temperature curves. The others (magnetometer, gyros, accels) look like either a richter scale on crack, or on occasion I can get them almost to be correct except the curves are riddled with hiccups (as though someone was tapping on the controller during the test (which is NOT the case).
I initially tried for a couple days when I first received the units, and then out of frustration I put them aside for a while (couple months) during which time I moved my residency to another city. Recently, I thought about it and figured maybe the change of venue would be my saving grace; thinking that there may have been weird magnetic fields around my old place. Unfortunately, no better after different city and months of sitting in a box.
So, unless I am able to finally give these expensive paper-weights an actual flight test one of these days, or even if they allow me to get past the VERY FIRST step on their way to becoming flight-ready, I plan to take my aggression out on them and see how they hold up to my kitchen blender and/or microwave oven -- then maybe a go with my sledgehammer.
Thanks, in advance, for any assistance that may help me out, because this is so very frustrating...
Jonathan