X8W might have the camera issue with plug. Exactly same issue occured to me. I disconnected the camera plug when it was turned on. After that, Non-working quadcopter.
My X8 has a problem. One motor won't spin. Sometimes two won't. At first I thought it was the motors so I replaced them. Nope. Problem continued. Purchased a new UPGRADED receiver board (will arrive in two days). Didn't test the camera. It never occurred to me that might be the problem. Does this sound like the symptoms of a faulty old board? I'll replace it anyway as I am running out of options. Thankfully I own fourteen other drones and can still enjoy flying but I really, really want the X8 to work as well.
There are many reasons why a board might have problems. The camera short issue will cause the whole board to fail. It will completely stop working. Your motor issue sounds like it could be the Mosfets (the 4 big things sticking out from the board). You did the best thing - replace the whole board. Keep the old one, though, because if you ever want to convert your X8 to brushless, you will be removing the Mosfets anyway.
+Rendus4, Houston, we have a problem. I have to replace the receiver board for my Syma X8W. I understand that the props (labeled A and B) being in certain positions. However, there are also clockwise and counterclockwise motors. This is where I hit a snag. How do I determine which is which? Then what positions do they belong in? A UA-cam video should be made covering such things for us beginners. Don't you agree? I received my new board today but don't want to begin the work until I'm sure I understand what I'm doing.
Ok, so we can eliminate the motors and the board (for now). That just leaves gears and transmitter. Is it always the same motors? Like if the upper right motor doesn't spin, flip it with the lower left motor together with the gear it is attached to. If the problem moves, we know it is probably a stripped gear. If the problem stays where it is, there might be an issue with your transmitter not sending signals properly. Let me know if that helps.
hello, nice vid there. my canera control/data cable got broken in a crash. can't make any good one. can you help with the wiring arragement/config from mini-USB to audio jack. Thanks.
The tip of the audio plug would be Positive so Pin 1 on the miniUSB plug, the middle of the audio plug would be data so Pin 3 of the miniUSB plug, and the bottom of the audio plug would negative so Pin 5 of the miniUSB plug.
+Julham Hamid The improvement is double capacity, but that is all. It hasn't hurt the control board because the control board only takes as many amps as it needs, and that does not change with two batteries in parallel. It adds flight time, but not exactly twice as much. That's because the extra battery adds weight, and the quadcopter has to work harder to lift the extra weight. Also, I don't have any circuit to balance the batteries, so it looks like one is getting discharged slightly faster than the other. But overall, it's nice to have the extra flight time. I'm looking for upgraded motors, but haven't found any. These motors pull about 30 Watts each at peak power, I'd like to see some 45-50 Watt ones to really make this quadcopter better.
No problem. I'm having a hard time trying to get any specs on motors. There are some people on youtube claiming they bought upgraded motors from Amazon, but I have not seen any proof that the motors were more powerful.
+Dany Masi I'd say it is a good improvement and not a great improvement because of the added weight and the limitations of the X8C's motors. I had a bad control board that needed to be replaced, and the replacement board from Gearbest had the banana plug leads pre-soldered, so I de-soldered the banana plug leads from the old board and added them to the new board by soldering them on the other side of the board. You can see this in the video above where I show the top and bottom of the board and you can clearly see two sets of banana plug leads. Hope that helps!
+Rendus4 Job done, only minor issue the Quad cannot manage to lift off. If I take one battery out, no problem. I guess it s too much weight for it. I am considering putting a small 1000 mAh battery instead either 1S or 2S better. Thoughts?
+Dany Masi Do you have anything else attached to the quad? Like a gimbal and camera? I had 2 batteries and and SJ1000 and a mount and still flew very strongly with the stock motors as you can see in another one of my videos. And for sure you have a Syma X8 and not an X5 or something, right? The X8's are incredibly powerful for toy grade brushed motors! Can lift 250 additional grams without a problem.
+Rendus4 I have attached an Andoer metal 2-D gimbal and camera to my X8G, and run it using an 11.1V 1350mAh 3S battery. (I wish I could find one with more mAh that would fit inside the hull. I have power to lift it all now. Just not long enough run time) You may already know that the G motors are stronger. But, anyway, I have a friend that wants to use the on-board Syma camera control system to operate a Foxeer camera. I'm not sure that it's possible. I think that the way the 3 conductors are set up in the 3.5mm 'stereo' jack are (from tip to base) power - ground - control signal. Does that sound right to you?
+Mikel Berry If you modify the battery tray/control board mount, you should be able to get a bigger battery in there. If I hooked mine up in serial instead of parallel, I would have a 2000 mah 4S battery. You've still got room to play with if you are creative. I have heard that the G motors are stronger, but I have not seen any evidence proving it. Now about your friend - I don't think it will work without an Arduino. The Foxeer camera has the following pins: (1) OSD, (2) Video Out, (3) Ground, and (4) Power. The Syma has (1) Ground, (2) Signal, and (3) Power. The Syma camera is programmed to act on the signal, while the Foxeer camera isn't. There is a UA-camr who has decoded the signal and used it for controlling a gimbal or powering an LED, you can visit his channel, he is "Muhammad Imam Zulkarnaen" on UA-cam.
Question- did you find out somewhere that it's good or at least ok to parallel 2 quarter-wave antennas, and with an arbitrary angle between them? Almost everything about antenna geometry is critical.
I knew nothing about antenna's at the time I made the video. I just figured 2 antennas are better than one. Since then, I have removed the second antenna. It doesn't seem to make any difference on range with or without the second antenna, though.
+ExplosiveKidMC Hi, that's exactly what happened. I was not actually flying at the time, I was measuring voltages of the camera leads when it shorted. After the short, when I would turn the switch to on, 2 props would just spin for like a 1/4 second and no lights or nothing. This is a common problem with the Syma design, mostly happens when people crash. The 3.5mm plug gets loose, shorts the board, and then you have to replace the board.
+ExplosiveKidMC You could have sold the camera for $15 on ebay to pay for the $9 control board. You can pick it up from Gearbest www.gearbest.com/rc-quadcopter-parts/pp_190693.html as Banggood is currently sold out of them. Ebay is overpriced. It will take over a month to get to you from China, though.
+dan olson I call the internal battery "internal" because I have to take the quadcopter apart to get it out. I routed the banana plugs to the battery tray so that I could disconnect the batteries individually. I also put a small hole in the quadcopter for the balance plugs to stick out so that I could charge the batteries individually without having to take them out. You can see it in my other video.
If you know how to solder, it is very easy - maybe 10 minutes of your time to de-solder the old board and solder in the new board. If it's your first time soldering, it might be a bit difficult, but the good news is that you don't need any additional solder, just a soldering iron.
X8W might have the camera issue with plug. Exactly same issue occured to me. I disconnected the camera plug when it was turned on. After that, Non-working quadcopter.
Doubled the length of your 2.4GHz antenna, eh Marconi???
My X8 has a problem. One motor won't spin. Sometimes two won't. At first I thought it was the motors so I replaced them. Nope. Problem continued. Purchased a new UPGRADED receiver board (will arrive in two days). Didn't test the camera. It never occurred to me that might be the problem. Does this sound like the symptoms of a faulty old board? I'll replace it anyway as I am running out of options. Thankfully I own fourteen other drones and can still enjoy flying but I really, really want the X8 to work as well.
There are many reasons why a board might have problems. The camera short issue will cause the whole board to fail. It will completely stop working. Your motor issue sounds like it could be the Mosfets (the 4 big things sticking out from the board). You did the best thing - replace the whole board. Keep the old one, though, because if you ever want to convert your X8 to brushless, you will be removing the Mosfets anyway.
+Rendus4, Houston, we have a problem. I have to replace the receiver board for my Syma X8W. I understand that the props (labeled A and B) being in certain positions. However, there are also clockwise and counterclockwise motors. This is where I hit a snag. How do I determine which is which? Then what positions do they belong in? A UA-cam video should be made covering such things for us beginners. Don't you agree?
I received my new board today but don't want to begin the work until I'm sure I understand what I'm doing.
New motors, New board,...
Same old problem. @$_#/"!#
Ok, so we can eliminate the motors and the board (for now). That just leaves gears and transmitter. Is it always the same motors? Like if the upper right motor doesn't spin, flip it with the lower left motor together with the gear it is attached to. If the problem moves, we know it is probably a stripped gear. If the problem stays where it is, there might be an issue with your transmitter not sending signals properly. Let me know if that helps.
How did you diagnose and isolate the problem to a shorted camera and a blown chip?
hello, nice vid there. my canera control/data cable got broken in a crash. can't make any good one. can you help with the wiring arragement/config from mini-USB to audio jack. Thanks.
Are you saying that you want to create a cable with a male audio jack and have the other end be mini-USB?
Rendus4 yes, i want to make one. any help? It'd take 3 - 4 weeks minimum if I order for replacement.
The tip of the audio plug would be Positive so Pin 1 on the miniUSB plug, the middle of the audio plug would be data so Pin 3 of the miniUSB plug, and the bottom of the audio plug would negative so Pin 5 of the miniUSB plug.
Were is the sensors wich controls dc motors
Mine is not working , the motor it not working and the drone light is keep blinking the red and green one ,can anyone help me please
Hi there..any improvement you add battery? said double capacity..it's add duration flight too ? it's save to the board ?
+Julham Hamid The improvement is double capacity, but that is all. It hasn't hurt the control board because the control board only takes as many amps as it needs, and that does not change with two batteries in parallel. It adds flight time, but not exactly twice as much. That's because the extra battery adds weight, and the quadcopter has to work harder to lift the extra weight. Also, I don't have any circuit to balance the batteries, so it looks like one is getting discharged slightly faster than the other. But overall, it's nice to have the extra flight time. I'm looking for upgraded motors, but haven't found any. These motors pull about 30 Watts each at peak power, I'd like to see some 45-50 Watt ones to really make this quadcopter better.
+Rendus4 thanks bro also share info if you already get new motor with spec high watt.
No problem. I'm having a hard time trying to get any specs on motors. There are some people on youtube claiming they bought upgraded motors from Amazon, but I have not seen any proof that the motors were more powerful.
im about to buy a X8C , and im getting ready for some maintenance that im gonna do for it, thanks for this video man
+Mark chance No problem, glad I could help!
Is that a camera connected with the receiver?
Is the double battery a good improvement? If so, can you share how you connected the 2nd battery? To what exactly?
+Dany Masi I'd say it is a good improvement and not a great improvement because of the added weight and the limitations of the X8C's motors. I had a bad control board that needed to be replaced, and the replacement board from Gearbest had the banana plug leads pre-soldered, so I de-soldered the banana plug leads from the old board and added them to the new board by soldering them on the other side of the board. You can see this in the video above where I show the top and bottom of the board and you can clearly see two sets of banana plug leads. Hope that helps!
+Rendus4 Job done, only minor issue the Quad cannot manage to lift off. If I take one battery out, no problem. I guess it s too much weight for it. I am considering putting a small 1000 mAh battery instead either 1S or 2S better. Thoughts?
+Dany Masi Do you have anything else attached to the quad? Like a gimbal and camera? I had 2 batteries and and SJ1000 and a mount and still flew very strongly with the stock motors as you can see in another one of my videos. And for sure you have a Syma X8 and not an X5 or something, right? The X8's are incredibly powerful for toy grade brushed motors! Can lift 250 additional grams without a problem.
+Rendus4 I have attached an Andoer metal 2-D gimbal and camera to my X8G, and run it using an 11.1V 1350mAh 3S battery. (I wish I could find one with more mAh that would fit inside the hull. I have power to lift it all now. Just not long enough run time) You may already know that the G motors are stronger. But, anyway, I have a friend that wants to use the on-board Syma camera control system to operate a Foxeer camera. I'm not sure that it's possible. I think that the way the 3 conductors are set up in the 3.5mm 'stereo' jack are (from tip to base) power - ground - control signal. Does that sound right to you?
+Mikel Berry If you modify the battery tray/control board mount, you should be able to get a bigger battery in there. If I hooked mine up in serial instead of parallel, I would have a 2000 mah 4S battery. You've still got room to play with if you are creative. I have heard that the G motors are stronger, but I have not seen any evidence proving it. Now about your friend - I don't think it will work without an Arduino. The Foxeer camera has the following pins: (1) OSD, (2) Video Out, (3) Ground, and (4) Power. The Syma has (1) Ground, (2) Signal, and (3) Power. The Syma camera is programmed to act on the signal, while the Foxeer camera isn't. There is a UA-camr who has decoded the signal and used it for controlling a gimbal or powering an LED, you can visit his channel, he is "Muhammad Imam Zulkarnaen" on UA-cam.
Question- did you find out somewhere that it's good or at least ok to parallel 2 quarter-wave antennas, and with an arbitrary angle between them? Almost everything about antenna geometry is critical.
I knew nothing about antenna's at the time I made the video. I just figured 2 antennas are better than one. Since then, I have removed the second antenna. It doesn't seem to make any difference on range with or without the second antenna, though.
Thanks for the quick reply! There is much to know about antennas, I should know more but I don't so I ask a lot. Nice job on the mods BTW.
if i change the x8c camera to x8w camera. if i chnage it like this can the camera can the camera still function
Yes, the cameras are interchangeable.
when you replace the board, does your existing controller connect to the new board without problems?
+Andre Martinez Yes, the transmitter recognizes it right away without a problem.
+ExplosiveKidMC Hi, that's exactly what happened. I was not actually flying at the time, I was measuring voltages of the camera leads when it shorted. After the short, when I would turn the switch to on, 2 props would just spin for like a 1/4 second and no lights or nothing. This is a common problem with the Syma design, mostly happens when people crash. The 3.5mm plug gets loose, shorts the board, and then you have to replace the board.
+ExplosiveKidMC You could have sold the camera for $15 on ebay to pay for the $9 control board. You can pick it up from Gearbest www.gearbest.com/rc-quadcopter-parts/pp_190693.html as Banggood is currently sold out of them. Ebay is overpriced. It will take over a month to get to you from China, though.
+ExplosiveKidMC They fixed the problem in the V2 control board, but that doesn't help you since you had V1 like everyone else.
How were you charging the internal battery?
+dan olson I call the internal battery "internal" because I have to take the quadcopter apart to get it out. I routed the banana plugs to the battery tray so that I could disconnect the batteries individually. I also put a small hole in the quadcopter for the balance plugs to stick out so that I could charge the batteries individually without having to take them out. You can see it in my other video.
+Rendus4 cool, thanks for the info.
How easy would it be to do this? I'm getting a Syma X8C and in case the main board is the problem of the drone I want to be prepared.
If you know how to solder, it is very easy - maybe 10 minutes of your time to de-solder the old board and solder in the new board. If it's your first time soldering, it might be a bit difficult, but the good news is that you don't need any additional solder, just a soldering iron.
Sir this bord control android app.?
Only the camera. Not the drone.
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transitor model
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