3gx v4.0

[coolice]

Do any of you testers fly small birds, like 250's and 450's ?

I'm hearing mixed reports on v3.1 for these small birds with general consensus sounding like go v3.0 or wait for v4.0

Personally, being a software engineer my gut feeling has always actually been quite the opposite and to avoid a .0 release like the plague!

Morning Mate.

We do test the smaller models, no 450's just yet as the team have broken there's by flying to low But Phil did have it running on a 500 which I flew. The latter apart from an imbalance in collective pitch range and it not being setup to my liking, flew really well.
Unfortunately time didn't allow me to maybe alter settings on this, it's also not my model, but I am more inclined to keep increasing parameters until I provoke a reaction on the model and then decrease it slightly.

Having setup a few 450's myself now through the school on V3.1 I would say go with this firmware until V4 becomes available. You will need to make sure your BEC is powerful enough, the inbuilt BEC on the Align ESC isn't any good with V3 & above.

Hi Ian are there any more issues with more current draw with this version as there were with 3.1?

Chris

Morning Chris.

That I cannot comment on for sure, logic tells me thought that as we are building on top of V3.1 which is more power hungry than older firmwares, that V4 will be the same.

I've not seen any change lists and do not think there is major changes that would cause any increased current draw, what I think Align have done here is fine tune the internal parameters/control loop feedback of the FBL system to obtain a better flight feel.
Of course it could be said that any increased performance could potentially increase current draw, but we are currently all using power systems capable of any small increases.
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[MartinW]

Ah, cool - I'm glad I asked now

I'll be sticking with v2.1 then as my 250 is a fully stock 250 DFC super combo, which means the built in BEC / ESC and I've no intentions to change that as it works flawlessly at the moment, it's just a bit hairy on initial spool up (which, let's face it was why I was looking at the v3+ versions).

My 450 is a 450 Sport v1 that I have the FBL head and 3GX for and is again entirely stock, so that's not even a Pro DFC stock ESC so I've no idea whether that would be sufficient or not

Definitely sounds like a case of if it ain't broke don't fix it then for me.

[sp4rky-m4rky]

I have naively(?) upgraded to v3.1 on my 450 pro dfc with standard BEC. Is this, in most people's opinion a mistake? What is the recommended version I should potentially downgrade to? And what is the compromise in performance likely to be? Thanks


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[sp4rky-m4rky]

I have naively(?) upgraded to v3.1 on my 450 pro dfc with standard BEC. Is this, in most people's opinion a mistake? What is the recommended version I should potentially downgrade to? And what is the compromise in performance likely to be? Thanks


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[AndyThilo]

I have naively(?) upgraded to v3.1 on my 450 pro dfc with standard BEC. Is this, in most people's opinion a mistake? What is the recommended version I should potentially downgrade to? And what is the compromise in performance likely to be? Thanks


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I run 3.1 on my 450 Pro DFC and its great. Tail is a little loose and blows out occasionally but that's probably my setup. It's certainly very stable and corners like its on rails

[dogcow]

Looks like it's officially up now........

ALIGN 3GX UPDATE MAIN PAGE

how long can i resist?

[the-borg]

Hi in the description in the V4 updates is "Added support for Spektrum DSMX satellites" I''m using DSMX satellites with no problem whats the added support ?

[sp4rky-m4rky]

Hi in the description in the V4 updates is "Added support for Spektrum DSMX satellites" I''m using DSMX satellites with no problem whats the added support ?

I noticed today that when binding to my 3gx on v3.1 that dispite using DSMX satellites it still binds and uses DSM2. Perhaps the update is that it does now use DSMX, good news, I'm updating for that.

[sparky 2]

Hi in the description in the V4 updates is "Added support for Spektrum DSMX satellites" I''m using DSMX satellites with no problem whats the added support ?

I think your find that your DSMX sats were only working in DSM2 mode i.e they are backwards compatible to the older spektrum rx and such and that should now be working in their full capacity.

Chris

[sp4rky-m4rky]

I think your find that your DSMX sats were only working in DSM2 mode i.e they are backwards compatible to the older spektrum rx and such and that should now be working in their full capacity.

Chris

Should now be working now, as in, since version 4? How many people have bought DSMX sats for their 3gx and been flying thinking they were using DSMX?

[the-borg]

Thanks for the info I will upgrade over the weekend.

[MartinW]

How many people have bought DSMX sats for their 3gx and been flying thinking they were using DSMX?

Me for one. I shall check to see what it's been connecting as at lunchtime

[MartinW]

So does this fix the current draw issue with the stock 15A ESC on a 250DFC then for instance?

[sp4rky-m4rky]

Mine has DSMX satellites but decides to use DSM2. I plan to do the update tonight so will be interesting to see if it changes to using DSMX. Will report back when it's done.

[trillian]

I was thinking about converting my Beam E4 to FBL using a 3GX. I have a Scorpion commander 55 amp ESC and it never crossed my mind about the BEC output, I'll have to look into this.