- #Cleanflight firmware flasher cc3d install
- #Cleanflight firmware flasher cc3d serial
- #Cleanflight firmware flasher cc3d driver
Also hidden within Cleanflight are three 3D parameters that must be set up with the CLI interface (far right tab in the Cleanflight configurator). All the other settings are default and seem to work well.įor a 3D setup, its critical to get the transmitter, Cleanflight, and BLHeli all to agree where the PPM Minimum, Center, and Maximum throttle are. It seems that setting PWM Frequency/Damped set to Damped Light robs quite a bit of power, and that in combination with the less efficient 3D props make the performance rather lethargic, so I’ve set PWM Frequency to HIGH. I was having trouble getting enough power, so I tried several BLHeli settings and finally ended up with this: I don’t pretend to know much about these yet, so they are certainly liable to change, but they do at least work on the bench. BLHeliSuite is a fantastic little package, so I was able to get them all done fairly easily. I then told BLHeliSuite to connect to the esc, waited just a tick, and then plugged in a battery to power up the esc’s. I unplugged each of the motors from the flight control board one at a time, and connected the digital output D2 from the Arduino to the orange (signal) wire of the the motor plug, and then connected ground from the Arduino to the brown wire. Now for BLHeli! I had a couple of Arduiono boards laying around, so I picked up an UNO clone and used BLHeliSuite to flash it with ArduinoUSBLinker firmware. I didn’t think to write down how I changed them. The only major change I had to make was the order of the motors, so I unplugged the motors from the flight control board and rearranged them so they matched the diagram in CleanFlight, both in location and direction.
#Cleanflight firmware flasher cc3d serial
It did take a while to figure out the proper configuration for the serial ports though. I already had the satellite bound to the transmitter during my OpenPilot session, so I didn’t need to do that. Once I had CleanFlight on the board and communicating with the CC3D, I went about getting it set up. Here’s the best video I found that expains the process:
#Cleanflight firmware flasher cc3d driver
There’s only one caveat, an STM USB driver must be installed on the computer that creates a virtual serial port that CleanFlight can recognize. To do this I ran the OpenPilot configuration program, and used it to flash CleanFlight onto the board.
#Cleanflight firmware flasher cc3d install
One way is to completely erase the flash and install CleanFlight from scratch, but this requires a programming dongle and is a little more involved, so I found that I could leave the OpenPilot bootloader in the CC3D flash, and just replace the OpenPilot main program with the CleanFlight main program. There are two ways to put CleanFlight firmware onto the CC3D. Once I found everything to be functioning, I decided to put CleanFlight onto the control board. I’m into acrobatic flying, and not so much into video or FPV, and the OpenPilot flight controller firmware lacks some of the features I’m interested in, such as reversing motors so I can fly inverted. I did a couple of hovers and gentle circuits around the front yard and found it to be very smooth, quiet, and precise – its a keeper! I followed through this video made by BuddyRC to get everything setup Since its a CC3D flight controller, it needs to be set up and bound to a transmitter with OpenPilot software, so I downloaded and installed a copy. The only thing I had to provide myself were a couple of battery straps. The quad was completely pre-built and ready to be set up for flight. I ordered the Spedix 250 Quadcopter BNF package with CC3D flight controller, and a Glacier 3-cell 1550mah battery, and it arrived from BuddyRC in three days in an oversized, nicely packaged box. There are also two types of flight controllers available, the KK2 which is easier for beginners to set up, the CC3D for more advanced fliers. It can be ordered as an ARF that has all the parts that you assemble yourself, or in a pre-built BNF package that includes everything except the battery. The Spedix 250 Quadcopter is a recent release, and has some nice new features that tightly integrate the electronics into a very streamlined looking frame.