Fibretech FlyPAN 2015 Dual Diag 12S

I have to Mamba XL2 and they are 450W and 500W...only 50W difference but that can be caused by the motors. HK motors KV is not precised. Some motors are rated 192KV but in reality they are from 185 through 200kv that results in different results.
 
I have the FINAL PIECE of my setup coming from bruno early next week (the 7S BMS) then I'll have pretty much the same setup as yours.. dual 50mm 7S10AH ADS/APS with wiiceiever, only difference being onboard BMS. FINGERS CROSSED that I don't go for any superman flights.. might be contacting you for some pointers!
 
RomeoEG said:
I have the FINAL PIECE of my setup coming from bruno early next week (the 7S BMS) then I'll have pretty much the same setup as yours.. dual 50mm 7S10AH ADS/APS with wiiceiever, only difference being onboard BMS. FINGERS CROSSED that I don't go for any superman flights.. might be contacting you for some pointers!
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great! I was also looking for BMS, but at the end I am quite happy to have a separate charger, save sa bit of weight.. and you avoid putting all together.
 
Hey there,

Cruising in Paris with my girlfriend, still using the nunchuck (the quanum is too big imo, I need to find something stealth - I don't want to ride with a big car transmitter in my hand !!!), wait for the APS tx .. or build mine using the GT2B components...) which is acting weird, but I managed to make it work correctly at low speeds). Evolve Carbon street used by my girlfriend continue to show its consistency as a good allround board, but of course due to its length, it is less agile than my DIY WeFunk deck, but if you have the money - I would say it worth. I added two rear bike LED, funny. I am waiting for the neopixel stuff... should be an amazing show...!

Someone should be designing a shell to host GT2B components in order to make a good tx ! either by molding or by 3D Printing.

Distance : 14km (8,7 miles) - 3500 mAH used. So well, you got plenty of amps left :) I would say that I could go around 35 km distance with one lipo. I am using 78A wheels, and believe me... it is necessary, still smooth ride, good control. It was 2°C outside. And even with these temperatures, I was stuck to the ground :)

Due to christmas coming soon.. lot of people (and cars/buses) in Paris downtown, was hard to find open paths will avoiding to ride on the road.

A short run at half power and some photos

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Enjoy.
 
hey - I have received the GT2B. First it's big ... but light. I installed the receiver, no biding necessary. Just powered up the board... you have to wait for like 5 seconds before you can have feedback of you throttle. But man. This is precise. Really different world compared to a nunchuck. But well, we are comparing a RC controller with a game controller. This is normal.

Only problem I have now... is how I can make this fit within a "portable" device that is not THAT big... I need to make a mold and make this fit within it.. a stealth controller. Maybe it's possible to have the lipo fixed at a distance of your arm with velcro... to avoid having the weight of the lipo within your hands.

wish someone could have make this mold or adapted this GT2B into something more stealthier.
 
I got my Arduino UNO, sweet small great device especially when you use the serial port monitor in live mode with the wiireceiver. I tested back to back the GT2B and the wiireceiver updated to 1.2.2 firmware. Even with the GT2B you have a small amount of time when you power on your board (i.e ESC + receiver + motors) between the first beep of both motors and the response to the trigger from the transmitter. This is around 5/6 seconds time when nothing happens (or at least there are no audible beeps).

This is almost the same with the wiireceiver. So I would say this is normal behavior.

My ride is not oriented toward cruising control using C or whatever user friendly command. I prefer to have power management on my thumbs. So I never and will never use these functions but I understand they are great for beginners.

Between both (wiireceiver & GT2B) : biggest difference is the consistency. I will try to explain with my own words. The GT2B is precise and accurate (this is what I expect of a RC car transmitter and what it's made for!), motors are well synchronized when you push on the trigger, no "weird" behaviour (situation when you push the trigger and nothing happens).

By looking at the serial monitor on the Arduino, I noticed and evidenced (monitor don't lie because it reads your input) that there is a great sync between the wiireceiver and the nunchuck because each input is live readable on the monitor.... Problem is sometimes (and often) you have inputs given, received by the receiver... and nothing happens. (i.e motors don't roll). So I would say that there's something else which is causing the potential inconsistency of the wiireceiver. Maybe some clear incompatibilities with the APS Dual ESC (this is the one I have).

So, as a summary I would say that the wiireceiver + nunuchk is great... but not fully safe (or not safe at all) with APS ESC. When I am saying safe, I mean ... almost 100% response of ESC/Motors to transmitter sollicitation by my thumb. This is really important because when you are cruising in town, you don't want something going wrong... and want to eliminate variables. Of course, best would be to remove all electronics... but well, this is not why we are all for and having fun !

Maybe there are some stuff to work by knowledgeable people to have a perfect sync between the APS and Wiireceiver, this is where the trouble seems to be. If this happen I will be more than happy to upgrade the firmware or be a beta tester (yes I have some strong BMX protections now)... unless it happens I will not be using the wii receiver anymore. I could also change the APS ESC to some double Mamba Max XL2... but this alternative is expensive... way too expensive than waiting for APS Transmitter... and sticking with my ugly (really ugly and not stealthy) GT2B tx.

Enjoy !
 
- I am actually installing/putting neopixels with a flora (adafruit) device on my boards. Just did it yesterday on my evolve notDIY board. This is really awesome. I need to find the best looking pattern and also should be getting one accelerometer 3 axis to combine with it in the next days. My objective is to have LED strips reacting on the accelerometer output. I want to have LED strips moving from front to back will riding... and then gradiently switch colors when accelerating with less intensity of the front board LED strip (the one facing your toes) than on the back LED strip (the other one). So basically LEDs will be dynamically controlled by the 3 axis accelerometer. Really cheap and believe me the neopixels looks really dope and not toy like ! The only thing which will be challenging is programming the code to make this reality even with the existing projets. I think I will make this a new project and ask support to Becky on Adafruit wearable electronics.

I will post some videos later on ! but yesterday's was like there was an UFO in my lounge room !

- have you heard of SUGRU ? seems to be a great material to work with ! that could be really useful on many situations (fix existing holes in my electronic box as I am improving it), build some LED strips (without a 3D printer) or LED mounts...

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enjoy!
 
IVE BEEN LOOKING AT THE FLORA STUFF..AND YOU ARE DOING EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT..BASICALLY A SPEED INDICATOR..AND A STOP LIGHT..WICKED...
I HAVE USED THE THERMOMORPHING POLYMER..WHICH IS A HEAT MOLDABLE POLYMER..SIMILAR TO SUGRA..VERY STRONG WHEN HARDENED..I USED TO MAKE THE HANDLE ON MY KILL SWITCHS..
 
what about making a transmitter case with such polymers ?

really raw shot, sorry for the quality, I filmed that in few seconds one hour ago, no tuning/settings. Raw stuff. The lights brightness is set to 25% :)

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finished installing the LEDs with Flora on my DIY and my Evolve Carbon street. I also did a short ride (7 km) and can't say how much the GT2B is smooth and precise while riding. I was not expecting so much difference on control vs the nunchuck.

I will post a video in the next hours, waiting for the night to enlighten my neighborhood streets with my LEDs :)

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Enjoy!
 
Back. I am getting used to the GT2B, it's not stealthy but well so much precise. I am actually even liking it more and more.

Was ready to go for a LED test with my girlfriend... and it started to rain (you can see the lines drawn by the wheels and their shininess). Well, a bit risky especially because I like to pull the trigger no matter what, but here's a raw export of (the only) 2 minutes ride, after that it was raining more and more. The LEDs brightness is set to 40%, I think I will put it higher as it was not fully dark outside. I also think that brighter colors (like teal, blue, yellow, green) make you standout.. vs RED which is more stealthy.

The motor sound is pretty funny when people look at you - and believe me, everyone is looking at you in Paris, especially because I'm riding in the hipster area - 100% of them are amazed by the torque of this little toy for adult !

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Enjoy the video at 1080 / 60fps.

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I hate to say I told you so about the nunchuck....but I did..lol..
The flora looks wicked...and is that pretty much 'out of the box'?
I've been looking at the sensor pack plus 2 metres of the neo pixel strip.. will that get be going do you think?
 
yes, out of the box. Only "problem" is that Adafruit use UPS... which means always customs for France. I had 50 euros of customs on my 200 USD order, but that's the price you have to pay :) You could go with USPS Global Priority (usually no customs are applied...) but it costs 60 USD vs 25 USD for UPS... At the end.. it's the same, so better use UPS.

Just soldered LEDS on flora
- 5V led to VBATT
- IN to RX
- GND to GND

Added a little button ON/OFF switch on the red wire of the 1S 1000maH lipo. Then I uploaded with Arduino 1.0.5 (compatible with Flora, Gemma...) the Neopixel code from the Neo Googles. Changed the color in HEX and that's it. I should be getting the accelerometer tomorrow and I will have to dig into the code, as of now, it's pretty copy/paste... accelerometer will be different :) especially if I want to fade colors depending on my balance on the board... It also mean that I may have to forget the K2000 look ... and have solid fading colors (not moving)

I ordered 3 meters of Neopixel 60LEDS ... just did both boards (evolve + diy) and I have some spare (35cm left).

Next projects are:
- Accelerometer coding
- GT2B custom remote control (I may have to go for APS one if I don't have time to do mine) - I don't have 3D printer
- Onda board ... if I can find one cheap sold to France and a non expensive electronics combo.
 
Ok sweet..I'll look into a flora..i can think of many uses. .. :D
I've done an Onda conversion..not had much testing due to weather but it's pretty efficient rolling resistance..
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do you mean the cheapest way to do it?- well its only a single motor/micro esc and 7s battery... i suppose the brackets are custom machined..but that's free to me..:)

BTW- i've found some old photos of the enclosure i made for the GT2b back in march 2013..(ohh how the time has flown!!) - i made it in Alloy - I cannot believe i machined that from a solid billet..lol ( as i didn't have a vac former then) which was obviously a big mistake... but the problem is i don't seem to have the 3D model anymore..otherwise i could easily machine a wooden mold to form around...
ill keep looking through my files..
You can see the inner circuit and the main problem is the aerial circuit board on top..and i de-soldered then switched it around but some thing went wrong...

Ive just ordered a handset from Ebay..ill see what i can do after the new year..:)

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awesome ! can't wait you get the flora and share our coding and thoughts regarding the accelerometer.

you went for the onda vibe ? does it worth ? I am looking for a more allround cruising machine for my girlfriend. The evolve carbon is sweet but a little care has always to be paid since it's carbon. I have seen it 149 euros shipped and also on ebay around 100 euros without shipping but can't be sure of the model
 
I picked 3 meters of this one which is 60 LED/meter: https://www.adafruit.com/products/1461

I am now also looking to fix my iphone 5 on my board, pointing towards the sky, parallel to the grip tape with a speedmeter app. I plan to use the front truck screws to fix such bumper

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Hey okp it's bmallory from here : http://youtu.be/w5jQ9DvAGTE

I followed your thread here and here's some thoughts :
1- if you want to control the color of your leds when accelerating / braking, I personally wouldn't use an accelerometer. I'd just get an Y cable and plug it between your receiver and your esc. I'd then plug the extra signal wire directly to the arduino and do some analogReads. It's seems less complex to me that way.

2- yes Adafruit stuff is a pain to get if you're in Europe. But you can usually get the neopixels from Europe electronic shops such as this one :
http://shop.mchobby.be/55-leds-neopixels

Hope this helps ;)
 
hey ! thanks for your message and support

I think even if it's harder to go for the accelerometer as I would like to get fading when moving on the side to side axis ! Richard is actually going to implement it too, so hopefully we will get this done. The LSM i received from Semageek was faulty, I have just got Adafruit USA to send me a replacement LSM, what a top notch customer service they have. Really serious.
 
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