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Controlled by an Atmel Mega168PA 8-Bit RISC based micro controller and utilizing a single 3-axis MEMS gyro the Hobbyking i86 Multi-Rotor Control Board is capable of 8 Multi-rotor craft types and 2 flight modes without the need to flash the micro controller. The simple dip switch systems allows for quick and easy selection of your desired Multi-rotor configuration and flight mode.
Light weight and compact the i86 can fit in the smallest of craft and includes a small piece of double sided tape to install.
The Hobbyking i86 Multi-Rotor Control Board supports: Aero (fixed wing) Dual copter Tri copter Quad copter X Quad copter + Hex copter H6 copter Y6 copter All of the above modes can be set in "Normal" mode or "Sports" mode (default normal)
Specs: Input Voltage: 4v to 6v Input signal: 50hz standard PPM PWM Frequency: 400hz for ESC, 50hz for servos Gyro scale: +/- 500dps, ODR: 800hz Operating temp: -40° C to 85° C Size: 40mm x 40mm Weight: 8g
Legal Henry. estou quase comprando essa placa controladora, só* nã*o fiz ainda porque nã*o tem o acelerô*metro. Estou esperando a KK2 voltar pro estoque. (tem mais de um mê*s esperando).
QUando você* colocar a bateria abaixo com certeza vai melhorar bastante.
Um abç* e bons vô*os.
What is the difference between i86 and i86L?
What is the best for beginners?
I'm waiting for KK2 but has over 1 month of waiting. I'm giving up the KK2 for this reason.
The L version has less configuration, no Aero ( Plane ) and :ual copter. Apart from that they are basically the same. The price difference is only $3.00. Go for the full version.
I found out that if you have your Dual Rates set too low you can't arm the FC board. If I keep them above 60% I can arm and disarm the FC. For two days I thought the FC board was bad and then it came to me that it might be the DR's I adjusted too far.
I have mine set up as a X . I have to move the stick to the bottom right to arm the FC and up to Left forward to disarm.
I am having calibration issues with this board.
CAN I PLEASE GET SOME HELP! I have been on the Help Centre for the past 3 days and being pushed around between live chat and email support. Getting the wrong product support, very frustrating!!
Stick cantering and esc calibration is not producing the right kind of responses on the Flight Controler's LEDs. I bought this radio system http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem .asp?idProduct=24899. Its the TC and RX are bonded, the Flight controller can see the interactions.
The Flight controller is simply Not reacting the way the manual says it should. I spent the past week trying to figure out what is going on and am at a loss.
PS: My transmitter is on Mode 2 (throttle on left). I flipped the modes and the channels, I have tried everything in different combinations. HELP!
Khwezi, Thought I would ask because I ran into a similar situation. Anyway, are you calibrating the i86 or the i86L. There are very different procedures for calibrating these two boards. I tried calibrating my i86L the same as the i86 and it would not work. Not sure if this is your issue or not, but thought I would put it out there. Take care and Happy flying!
Thank you for replying. If the L in i86L stands for "light edition" then yes that is what i have.
Can u pls share how u got over the issue. Am so desparete.
My board loks the same as the picture of the board on this page, even the manuals HK advised i must use. None of the videos that HK customer support sends me are helping
Khwezi, search this site for the i86L (PRODUCT ID: 070000010), go to the files tab for that product and download the manual. The procedures are very different than for this board. Also The i86 board is more sensitive and more suited for aerobatic flight. The board on this page is much more stable and great for beginners or for doing aerial video. I think I'll do a video tutorial on setup and the differences of these two boards. Hope this helps and Happy flying!
Double checked all connections and settings. It all done correctly. I have zero rudder control and it yaws right. I can trim or hold left enough to slow it but it will just keep yawing. On rudder imput I hear the rpms change and it rises and then it goes nuts. It will either oscilate and flip or go balistic in a hirizontal direction. Pitch and roll seem to work fine.
Hey there!
I'm having big issues with my Quadcopter in X-conf. The biggest problem is that the quad yaws by itself to the left and wants to go backwards when no input is done. I can adjust this with a lot of trimming and I mean a lot! I have done all the necessary calibrations a ton of times in different orders but the front left engine and the right rear are still only the ones spinning when low throttle is given (and they spin in different speeds). I'm using Turnigy Plush 30amp, Turnigy D2836 and the ORX system. Thank you in advance!
/Christoffer
Double checked but it was set up properly. The thing is that the ESCs, if you ask me, never gets calibrated. M1 and M3 start together in different pase and then when I'm applying 1/4 of the throttle the rest of the engines kicks in. :/
I suggest following the complete programming guide for the ESC's individually. Use a programming card to ensure that each one is programmed identicaly. And then follow the ESC's throttle callibration directions and do them individually. You may need to trim your throttle down a few clicks too. That might get them starting at the same time but I feel thats a bandaid over cut artery.
I believe Christoffer is referring to the Orange RX receiver. Anyway, you might want to ensure you have the i86 board and not the i86L board. I made the mistake of trying to calibrate it in similar fashion and it didn't work.. very different boards. Hope this helps and Happy flying!
Finally I figured it out! Of course I made the error of not calibrating the ESC's the right way. I pulled down the throttle after the short "melody" instead of after the two short beeps (wich is the right way according to CS). The quad is very stable now and I'm happy with it! Thank you for your thoughts anyways!
Take care and be safe!
Christoffer
chris, Glad to hear it and thanks for the credit. These boards are super easy to setup and are very stable. Even in acro mode they fly quite nicely. Ha ha
help im a noob big time when it comes to scratch rc building have an i86 multi-rotor control board,emax gf 2215/25 950kv motors with GWS 7035x3 props, dynam 25A ESC (3A BEC), and an HXT 500 5g/.8kg/.10sec micro servo. i know i need to solder on bullet connectors to the motors and extend the lines from the ESC. how do i connect the ESCs, do i connect them all to the reciever or the control board. please help
chris, please refer to the files tab above. There you will find the manual with pics of the control board and where your receiver and motor ESCs plug into. Hope this helps and Happy flying!
Learning from others mistakes in the discussion section. My first quadcopter. This FC board is so simple even I could set it up at age 75. I assembled it and hovered it in one day. I set it up without the props installed. After I had the stick centering, throttle range set and proper motor direction configured I balance and then put the props on the motors. I went out into the garage and got a 10kg brake rotor (disk) and laid it flat on the island (bar) counter top in the kitchen. I tied 4 pieces of parachute cord (500 Lb rated) to the disk at 12, 3, 6 and 9 nine oclock positions and tied down the quadcopter at all 4 legs with 4 inchs of slack in the cord. I fired it up and found out I had to reverse the transmitter aileron, elevator and rudder channels. After I reversed the channels I was able to hover it, while tethered in the kitchen. So far no damage by reversed throttle or other reversed channels. It was way too responsive and I am going to set some dual rates that will hopefully keep me from crashing tomorrow when cut its tethers and take it outside and hover it.
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Ok so here's my problem, I have everything hooked up and can get it to fly but it oscillates extremely bad almost uncontrollable ... can anyone tell me how to fix this problem .... Thanx, Mike
Michael E, Turn the gyro pots of the Pitch and Roll down (if you are flying anything but a Tricopter) just until the oscillations stop and it should be optimal at that point. Hope this helps and Happy flying!
Does this board care which set of pins it gets its power(5v) from? I ask because I am using the skywalker quattro esc. It only has "power" wires on the 3rd esc the rest are one wire signal only. I saw the kk 2.o board is powered by the first set of pins.
Erik, As long as you have one ESC providing power to the FC, it will work. The KK2 board on the other hand, has to have power on the 1 motor and if you are running a tricopter, power on the 2 or 3 motor as well. Great little FC boards I use them on lots of stuff. Hope this helps and Happy flying!
Erik, I just got a Skywalker Quattro and I'm confused by the S wire numbers. I'm trying to hook it up to this FC board. Is S1 wire connector Motor 1? S2 = M2, S3 = M3, S4 = M4? I'm building a quadcopter .
Never mind it was that easy. S1 to M1... I can't believe how easy it was to setup this FC board. This is my first quadcopter build and I built it and flew it in the same day. :)
No, you don't have to flash this board.
To fly different Multicopter you just have to switch the four Dipswitches on the board.
Also you can adjust the three gyros by turning the three knobs with a little screwdriver.
Max battery draw for 3x D2836-11 750 is about 60A, so I would recommend a 2200mah 3S 30C min battery. HK Part No: SKU: N2200.3S.35 or SKU: T2200.3S.30 or
SKU: Z22003S-30
Hey,
I'm going to build a tricopter with this board.
But i messed up to buy the correct props. I only ordered right hand props.
The image above says that two motors running counterclockwise and one motor is running clockwise.
So i need some more left hand props. Right?
The right hand props lift up when the motor is running clockwise, correct?
Matthias, on the front left, you need a reverse prop, which viewed from the top spins clockwise. front right, a standard prop and spins CCW viewed from the top. On the back, you can use either. With a Standard prop, it should be canted slightly to the right and with a reverse, slightly to the left. With a tricopter, you can actually use all the same props but you have to cant the rear a little more and it causes the tri to lean slightly to one side in a stable hover. My little soap box Tcopter has two reverse props and one standard. Hope this helps and Happy flying!
I have just gave my opinion on another post so I'll just cut and paste:
The i86 uses mems gyro and therefore more thermally stable and with i86 you do not need to programme it for the flight configuration you want, its a matter of setting the switched. This makes it alot easier to setup. The downside is that the i86 has a disarming problem in the firmware, can be overcome with throttle hold on TX. The answer - i86 better.
hello, just got my x525 together and noticed after all the stick centering and other setups on my i86 board,the prop flipping problem won't go away.
it also seems not to be responsive to gyro adjustment. it is very hard to hover without massive stick inputs.
i noticed arpad had asked about this problem and no one really answered the question.
should i just try to send it back or just buy another?
thanks, d.g.
The throttle on my quadcopter will only kick in when the throttle stick is pulled half way up. Is there something i need to do to make the throttle start when the stick is pulled up just a bit? Also when i do give it throttle it wants to fly backwards more than forwards, what do i need to adjust as i have been adjusting all the trims but it wont make it even out? Thanks if someone could reply that would be great, im new to quadcopters haha :)
Alright thanks. Ive tried doing the stick centering but it never works. I turn all the trims to zero and then the pitch to zero. Put the battery in and it just flashes a red and blue LED at me. Should it have worked?
Trim to zero means trim to center position, set the yaw and roll pot iat 50%, pitch pot to zero, connect battery,when red and blue fashes wait a couple of second until it flashes simultanously, than you are done.
Just got 3 of these and they have the I86 full throttle for about 1.5 sec after disarming problem. Thought that this had been fixed. Did I get some older boards? Or, am I incorrect in thinking that the bug was fixed. Running Turnigy AE 20 ESC.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Just got 3 of these and they have the I86 full throttle for about 1.5 sec after disarming problem. Thought that this had been fixed. Did I get some older boards? Or, am I incorrect in thinking that the bug was fixed. Running Turnigy AE 20 ESC.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Can someone tell me what the original firmware is called that is initially loaded on the i86. I have been playing around with the firmware and now need to get it back to original
Thanks
John
john50049, Sorry to say that once the firmware has been changed on these little boards, it cant be reversed. I've researched this issue and checked out several forums. Anymore, I just buy them and use them stock because they are so easy to setup and have several configurations already available that work fine. My Tricopter would hover in a small area with this board. I would suggest getting another because they are quite inexpensive and work very well. Hope this helps and Happy flying!
When I try to change the mode im in using the switches, mine remains stuck in the original mode it came in. Its in a tricopter setting and it will not change to a quad setting. Is there something wrong with mine or do you guys have any suggestions? I have powered it down and everything like I it says to but still nothing changes
Edwin, click on the files tab above (purple tab) and click on manual. When it opens, it will be a PDF. Save the file somewhere on your computer. I have a file for multirotor and subfiles for different boards. One is the i86. Great little board that's easily setup and flies fantastic! Hope this helps and Happy flying!
Edwin, the files are back in the files tab now. These are fantastic little boards and are very forgiving in setup. Dialed in just right, they can make a multirotor fly hands free!
I put up a question and now I don't see it. I am mounting an i86 in a plane and it would mount best if I mounted with the components pointing down. Can anyone tell me if this is OK to mount it with the components pointing down instead of laying in the plane so they are pointed up. Please only answer if you know. Don't guess cause I can do that!!
Hi John. If you mount it upside down the gyros would be reversed and would not work as intended. The board will get confused. Youtube FliteTest I86 - sponsored by HobbyKing. I will try and upload a link. They added the I86 to a plane and they tell you how to check if your correction is in right direction and how to fix it if not. Happy Flyibg!
John, yes you can mount in inverted. keep in mind that your elevator and rudder may be reversed. But if any of your control surface gyros are reversed, it is simple to change by moving to the reverse pin out. Download and view the manual because it illustrates how to reverse the gyro direction. Hope this helps and Happy flying!
Thanks Ron. I knew that but it took you jogging my brain to remember that. I just reversed a gyro on this board the other day on my tricopter. Thanks for giving my brain a shove so I can mount this upside down. The plane I am putting it in just was not going to take it any way but up side down. I awarded you.
Thanks
John
Also a note to remember. the manual for the i86 board is wrong where they show how to connect it to an airplane. The HobbyKing manual currently doesn't list the banks correctly, this is how the banks on the board are setup as: 5-6 controls yaw, 3-4 elevator (pitch), 1-2 roll. So follow this and not what is shown in the manual.
john, Good catch on the 3,4 and 3,4 for both elevator and rudder. Another issue it has is the drawing for stick centering. The text is correct, but the drawing, though specially correct, is labeled wrong. The Yaw and Pitch are switched in the drawing.
Hey John, between us all these little errors in the manual will be addressed! Ha ha.. These are fantastic little boards that are very forgiving in settings and capable of stabilizing lots of things. My UFO was the hardest thing this board had to stabilize, but it worked quite well.
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I think this control board has very dangerous bug. Just sometimes happend symptom that all rotor was rotate full rpm after disarmed action after landed. So, my 3rd quadcopter has been literally distroyed.. It's really danderously.. Anybody has same symptom?
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Was up in the air in less than 1 hour. super easy to get everything together. Make sure you get the male to male servo leads so you can connect your RX. Credit if you find helpful. Thanks!!
Works great! I like the fact that I don't have to pull out the programmer just to change it from one wing type to another. I just set the dip switches and plugged it in. One tip that _is_ in the manual, but not made obvious is that for fixed wing use the throttle connection is not used between Rx & the board. You just plug the ESC into your Rx like normal and all the servo connections go Rx to board to servos. The board then gets power from the Rx via servo lines. OH, and you need male to male servo extensions for this for between the Rx and board.
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