SF2205 Motor + 20A ESC Power Kit
Contents
1. Assembly of the quadcopter (DO NOT assemble the propellers now for safety reason)
Soldering of the ESCs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVhLOXCg7vY
Motor soldering + flight control mounting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCHJD7Bug9U
Whole assembly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT-HOwGvYio
2. Installing CleanFlight
Run the Google Chrome
You will see the interface like the below:
Click on the Customize and Control Google Chrome button at the top right of the window, and then on the drop-down list select More Tools -> Extensions.
Click browse the Chrome Web Store.
Click Get more extensions and you will see the interface below:
Input CleanFlight in the search box in the top left corner to search for the firmware and the results will be shown as below:
Click + ADD TO CHROME to add the plug-in to the Google Chrome. There will be a prompt then; just click Add app.
Wait for a while till it is loaded successfully and the CleanFlight icon will appear on the interface.
3. Flashing the SPRACING F3 Firmware
Click CleanFlight to run the ground station software.
Connect the flight controller with the computer via a USB cable. Open the Device Manager on your computer and see whether the flight controller has been recognized. If yes, heck the COM port number. Choose the corresponding COM port in the top right corner of the firmware. But do not click the Connect button now.
If no driver is found for the device, please install it first.
You can download the driver in this website:
http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/pages/usbtouartbridgevcpdrivers
Click Firmware Flasher to upgrade and flash the firmware. Now click the triangle next to Choose a Board on the page, and on the drop-down list select SPRACINGF3. Then click Choose a Firmware version for SPRACINGF3 on the page, and on the drop-down list select the lastest firmware for the flight controller.
Click Load Firmware(Online) to load the firmware (if you happen to have downloaded the firmware before, you can choose Load Firmware(Local)).
After loading, click Flash Firmware to flash the firmware.
If flashing is done successfully, you will see the interface below:
So the firmware has been upgraded successfully.
But sometimes failures may occur when you flash the firmware, like as below:
In that case, we need to use another method to flash the firmware, using FlyMcu tools and the latest hex file.
To find the FlyMcu tools, go to our website WIKI
Download the hex file of cleanflight for your flight controller on this page:
https://github.com/cleanflight/cleanflight/releases
Then take the following steps:
1) Connect the two pads labeled with boot by soldering on the flight controller.
The flight controller after soldering will be like this:
2) Open mcuisp and plug the USB cable. REMEMBER to plug in only when boot’s connected.
3) Click the Port: COM1 in the menu bar and click EnumPort to search for the port, then select the port for your device. Click the button next to the text box under Code File For Online ISP: and find the hex file downloaded. Then click Read ChipInfo, and the information of the chip will be showed on the right box.
4) Click Start ISP(P) and wait until “Anything Ok” appears at the bottom. Disconnect the USB cable and remove the solder in the boot on the board. Now the problem has been repaired.
4. BLHeliSuite: download the software on our WIKI page
First go to our website www.sunfounder.com and WIKI section. Search for the BLHeliSuite and download the package to your computer. Unzip the file and install it based on the prompts.
Connect the flight control and the PC with a USB cable. Make sure it is connected to the CleanFlight, and then run the BLHeli. Click Select ATMEL / SILABS Interface -> E SILABS BLHeli Bootloader(Cleanflight). Note that the port should be the same with the COM port in CleanFlight, like COM 39 as shown below:
Click Connect. After the connection is done successfully, mount the battery to power on the drone and click Check. Then a window will pop up to prompt you the version of the 4 ESCs.
Click OK and the interface will change.
If the version information is null after you click Check, take the following steps: exit the BLHeli software -> remove the battery -> unplug the USB cable -> connect the battery -> re-plug the USB cable -> open the BLHeli software. Then all the ESCs should be recognized.
You can click to select the ESC to be debugged. For example, to select only No. 1 ESC, click the 2, 3, and 4 to close them, as shown below. If you select more than one ESC at the same time, it means you want to debug them at one time. Note: The No.1, 2, 3, and 4 corresponding to the No. 1-4 ESCs in the CleanFlight.
