I hadn’t flown since early March, due to the covid19 restrictions and I have an assignment coming up. So today, I checked out and charged my Evo 1, connected my iPad and made sure my settings were as per usual. I noticed there was a firmware update to v1,5,8, but decided to wait until after I’d done some brief test flights in a neighbour’s five acre field.
it was a brilliant sunny afternoon, around 20 Celsius with a moderate breeze. The field is protected by tall trees on three sides and I figured that provided I stayed low, I could get my testing done with no problem.
i was flying with the RC only. First two attempts to arm the rotors failed, so I turned off drone and controller and started again. Bingo, so I hovered around 10ft high for 60 seconds while the satellites locked in and tested the controls before slowly heading directly away and up to around 30 feet before flying a tight circuit. Without warning, it suddenly shot up to 60ft and for a while would not descend. Eventually I got it down to around 30ft again and headed off in normal flight to about 200ft out. On pulling the right stick back, nothing happened. I could go left, right or forward but not back. Time to come in! Yawing around with the left stick, I brought it closer but again it wouldn’t come down. Finally pressed Autoland and it thought about it for a while, first descending to about 6ft, paused for a minute or so and then landed softly. On landing, I got a warning on the RC:”DAMAGED BATTERY”.
I changed the battery and did a brief test. By now I was feeling jittery and thought it time to call it a day.
my question: could a “Damaged Battery” cause all this?
I upgraded to v1.5.8 and recharged the good battery ready for another test tomorrow.
it was a brilliant sunny afternoon, around 20 Celsius with a moderate breeze. The field is protected by tall trees on three sides and I figured that provided I stayed low, I could get my testing done with no problem.
i was flying with the RC only. First two attempts to arm the rotors failed, so I turned off drone and controller and started again. Bingo, so I hovered around 10ft high for 60 seconds while the satellites locked in and tested the controls before slowly heading directly away and up to around 30 feet before flying a tight circuit. Without warning, it suddenly shot up to 60ft and for a while would not descend. Eventually I got it down to around 30ft again and headed off in normal flight to about 200ft out. On pulling the right stick back, nothing happened. I could go left, right or forward but not back. Time to come in! Yawing around with the left stick, I brought it closer but again it wouldn’t come down. Finally pressed Autoland and it thought about it for a while, first descending to about 6ft, paused for a minute or so and then landed softly. On landing, I got a warning on the RC:”DAMAGED BATTERY”.
I changed the battery and did a brief test. By now I was feeling jittery and thought it time to call it a day.
my question: could a “Damaged Battery” cause all this?
I upgraded to v1.5.8 and recharged the good battery ready for another test tomorrow.
