Easy to loose, be careful

[Lee]

After Graham losing one and my friend here losing his, I have been very careful not to fly too far away and only in areas I'm familiar with.
Well thats not enough. You absolutely need a beeper of some sort.

I just came back from flying mine for the first time FPV.
I was in front of myself, no more than 30m away over long grass.
I made a flip and lost control. Heard it hit the grass.
It still took me 20mins to find it, even knowing roughly where it was.
The only way I found it, was to start the motors and listen to try to hear it.

I have bought a lost model finder, but they are not really designed for multi rotors.
I'm gonna have to do some tinkering, to try and get it to work.

Keep them close or have a beeper.

[Tony]

Very weird thing just happened... I replied to this post and hit the submit, nothing happened for 20 seconds, then I got a tiny window pop up saying I don't have permission to do this... Refreshed the page and I had to log in again.. Weird

Anyway Lee

As I was saying, do you know that long beach you have near home, well fly there, going to be hard to lose it...haha

That's quite a problem with those quads... What's the range on the beepers, are they any good. Did you get one for my quad

I could design a long range one... Hmmm the mind boggles

[murankar]

I think its the compact design and there might be interference. Carbon fiber can cause interference. I would try a g10 frame and see if it happens on that.

[Graham Lawrie]

I got a Piezo beeper for my new one:)

[danhampson]

I think those gps trackers that tony mentions over the road would be a good idea. shame that they cant be made smaller and powered by the rx.

[Stambo]

You are right they are really hard to find in long grass.
With the telemetry on the Taranis I can gauge roughly what direction the quad is in by holding it against my body and blocking the signal. Then I just turn the beeper on and off and walk in the general direction.

[Lee]

I think its the compact design and there might be interference. Carbon fiber can cause interference. I would try a g10 frame and see if it happens on that.

When I say Lost control, I mean, I lost control, not lost signal LOL

The only way I can see to get my lost model finder to work, is to plug it into a spare channel, and set s switch up to turn it on.
Only problem is, I don.t have a spare channel. Need 7ch or more.
I will experiment.
Tony I bought one for you and me, just to see if we could get them to work. They were only 2 euros, so i thought why not.

[murankar]

If you loose signal you loose control, correct?

[Lee]

What I should say is. I dumb thumbed it (lost control) LOL
No signal loss, just me

[Derek]

My esc on my Trex 500 will begin to beep after 30 seconds when I turn off my tx. Are there any esc's for multi rotors that will do this?

[murankar]

I thought it was a run away. Rtc (return to China) failure.

[Lee]

My esc on my Trex 500 will begin to beep after 30 seconds when I turn off my tx. Are there any esc's for multi rotors that will do this?

The beep on the Castle ESCs is not load enough. Once you are more than 20ft away, you can't here it.
I have fitted my lost model finder to the throttle channel, and it works.
I didn't want to put a $2 bit of kit in between my FC and the RX, but I have no option at the moment.
It does work well though.

[Tony]

Sounds like a good idea Lee, and thanks for getting me one

[Lee]

I did a test with the lost model finder.

https://plus.google.com/photos/11019437 ... 0876668978

[Derek]

That's great Lee! Very nice!

[Tony]

That's brilliant Lee, nice one

[cml001]

Werd!