Tony
Staff member
Getting back into a hobby that you have spent more than a decade in is quite easy if you still have what you had before, but remembering all of the things that you need to do to setup a model is a little more difficult. I didn't think I had forgotten much about the hobby, but I was quite humbled during the live streams when D.O.G. & bigone5500 helped me setup the quad on stream. I have forgot almost everything. This definitely has me worried about flying, not going to lie. And because of that, I want my first flight to be with something that can take a crash and either it won't break, or it won't matter much. And thus, enter the Arrow 3 Quad from HGLRC.
I received this quad a long time ago from a vendor that sent it to me and I never even took it out of the box. Too much life and not enough hobby. So it sat there in that box until just a couple weeks ago when I finally decided it was time. I had asked what receiver to put on it, and D.O.G. to the rescue once again! For more information on that, check out the thread What Micro Receiver Do You Use?. With that in hand, the first live stream was set and we soldered it on and we were off to the races.... Kind of.
Soldering, not a problem. It's like riding a bike and that went off without a hitch. Remembering that the FRSky receiver and the Spektrum receiver must be on different ports, yep, that one slipped my mind. Once I moved it to the correct pad on the FC, everything started working as it should. And with that, all the soldering on the quad was done. But didn't have enough time to do any further setup like flight modes, arm mode, and I'm sure I'm still forgetting something, so definitely post up if I am.
Today, I'm still recovering from an illness that I have had for a few days that had me pretty much down and out. If I had to "go" to work, or even if I still had to talk to customers or my agents, I would have had to call in, but with my new role in the company I was able to still go to work, saving my overtime that I had worked for and was able to do my job. And for that, I am quite thankful. Because I'm still recovering, my voice is not quite all there so no live stream today, but I am still going to do a little work to the quad.
Twice now I have run a battery way too low on voltage so I decided to put a pack on charge in order to do some setup because the quad will have to be on. I'm going to try to get it setup with the flight modes (yes, I'm going to have to put the 'B-Mode' on there) and get the arm switch setup. I'm going to poke around some more to try to remember what else I did to these, but I honestly think that is about it other than checking motor rotation. If you all have any input, post up!
And don't worry about the blue tape, I needed a hinge and it works lol. I'm trying to come up with a design for a print in place hinged door that I can replace that with, but that is proving to be a challenge.
I received this quad a long time ago from a vendor that sent it to me and I never even took it out of the box. Too much life and not enough hobby. So it sat there in that box until just a couple weeks ago when I finally decided it was time. I had asked what receiver to put on it, and D.O.G. to the rescue once again! For more information on that, check out the thread What Micro Receiver Do You Use?. With that in hand, the first live stream was set and we soldered it on and we were off to the races.... Kind of.
Soldering, not a problem. It's like riding a bike and that went off without a hitch. Remembering that the FRSky receiver and the Spektrum receiver must be on different ports, yep, that one slipped my mind. Once I moved it to the correct pad on the FC, everything started working as it should. And with that, all the soldering on the quad was done. But didn't have enough time to do any further setup like flight modes, arm mode, and I'm sure I'm still forgetting something, so definitely post up if I am.
Today, I'm still recovering from an illness that I have had for a few days that had me pretty much down and out. If I had to "go" to work, or even if I still had to talk to customers or my agents, I would have had to call in, but with my new role in the company I was able to still go to work, saving my overtime that I had worked for and was able to do my job. And for that, I am quite thankful. Because I'm still recovering, my voice is not quite all there so no live stream today, but I am still going to do a little work to the quad.
Twice now I have run a battery way too low on voltage so I decided to put a pack on charge in order to do some setup because the quad will have to be on. I'm going to try to get it setup with the flight modes (yes, I'm going to have to put the 'B-Mode' on there) and get the arm switch setup. I'm going to poke around some more to try to remember what else I did to these, but I honestly think that is about it other than checking motor rotation. If you all have any input, post up!
And don't worry about the blue tape, I needed a hinge and it works lol. I'm trying to come up with a design for a print in place hinged door that I can replace that with, but that is proving to be a challenge.
