K1 Knob is showing the wrong position on the display When I check settings under Hardware Monitor. When it is set to the middle it shows a whole click over to the right. When I have the K1 knob physically centered the camera Just spins. Is this a glitch or something that can be corrected?
K1 Knob shows wrong position?
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You need the re calibrate ST16. Instructions are on threads here or find tutorials on YouTube. It's pretty easy. Make sure knobs and sliders are at center points before starting. The other solution is to recalibrate gimbal and then restart TH after that's done with our touching anything on the ST. Every calibration has a self restart except gimbal and it should. That's what can cause spinning. For what's it's worth, I spent over an hour yesterday with the H initialized on a table and played with all gimbal switches and settings. The speed of the pan knob as well as tilt behavior is fully adjustable and I've gotten the tilt switch now behaving as a true 3 position switch. The first position is still the original angle mode with a bit of an expo curve adjustment for making smooth minor moves to tilt, the middle position as an angle mode that does not roll up as high for tighter foreground and less horizon in the shot plus even more incremental slow adjustment, and finally made negative expo on the velocity position and got way better control in this mode. By changing the total percent down I also got velocity modes far bottom position to be camera pointed perfectly level facing down and the upsweep stops before it hits motor or props in shots. From this full pointed down position I can now roll the K2 slider up just past center and it moves so wonderfully slow and steady as it rolls up.
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I will after test flight this am. It's tricky because unlike a traditional radio, you can't test how the proportion changes affect speeds and travel until you reconnect to the H. The GUI in the hardware settings always travels at same rates and does not show how the speeds have changed when you move knobs or sliders so it does require some time on a bench looking at camera angles and roll speeds. YUNEEC admitted this was something it should do. I hope perhaps a future ST 16 firmware update will not only show curve changes with switch selection like now but add actual response graphics to pitch curve graph. Being able to customize stick behavior is pretty great.
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Ok so here goes...all of this is done via the channel settings menu.
Start with K1 edit by clicking on the A04 button on lower left corner of output grid (channel function) menu. This will cause the K1 square on hardware input to highlight in red. Now click there. That brings up drop down menu and select edit.
Now you are looking at the plotted curve for the K1 knob. Here I added 35% plus expo which creates a straighter line from center so the knob must travel further away from center before panning begins. This really helps because the center detent on the pan knob makes it impossible to move off center smoothly to set pan speed. With the positive expo you now have that first 1/8" travel to bust off the detent hold cleanly and you've got better speed control as well. I can now do a pan that's almost looks still but is in fact rotating crazy slow. Be sure to always hit save before exiting any set up screen.
Next I realized that the tilt switch can be a three mode switch. This is found via A03 to access K2. When you go to edit you will see that the Dual rate switch is S1. If you toggle the switch you will see the S1 box showing position 1-3 and the corresponding graphs change. In position 1, I left the rates at -100% and +100% respectively but added a negative 33% expo curve. This has made the tilt motion in switch position 0 (angle mode) relative to the slider more sensitive and less prone to over tilting.
For switch position 1 - which before was just exactly the same behaviors as 0 - I lowered the rates to 84% -/+ and set up a neg 47% expo. Now the forward up angle in this switch position is lower - more straight and less background horizon - and even more slowly adjustable. And I quick flick of switch between 0 and 1 gives me a nice choice between full up angles of camera - one as always was - and one about 5 degrees down that is way better as a default straight on camera angle at lower level horizontal flying.
Finally the velocity mode...I love how weird vertical objects get when rolling the camera fully up in velocity but it would travel to far and bring drone into frame. That's a shot killer in my book. For sunsets and sunrises and crazy looks, the velocity up is fun. Because the K1 slider already changed behavior in velocity mode, I reasoned that it's 100% rate was already different so I'd need to cut more to limit it. I found a 77% +\- rate created a travel where K1 fully down rolled the camera perfectly horizontal to look straight down and when fully up rolled past angle stop and for more high angle looks but stopped before picking up motors and props. I input a neg 25% expo and now when you set K1 to center ( hear the beep) I can roll up or down from imperceptibly moving to super fast.
Ok.. sorry for the verbosity but getting back three true gimbal modes plus new pan control makes this camera package beyond creative. Now I need a 4K monitor!!!
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