I bought 2 "F4 V5PRO Flight Controller 5.8G 40CH 0/25/200/600mW Switchable FPV Transmitter w/ 5V BEC OSD PDB" on Apr 08 2017 and 1 showed up on Apr 21 2017. I am still waiting for the second one. It is from HGLTech or HGLRC. It is an amazing All In One Flight Controller, VTX, PDB, OSD.
It came with no documentation. There is text screened onto the board but is nearly impossible to read. It is tiny, unclear, and sometimes covered by components. BB+ and BB- look like 88+ 88- and they are the buzzer pins. The motor signals are only available as through hole connections on the 4 corners. Everything else is only available on the 3 ports. The antenna adapter is MCX male to RP-SMA. It is not U.FL like with the V4. I didn't know that and ordered a bunch of U.FL antennas. I ended up making my own super light dipole antenna that connects to MCX. No 7 grams of SMA or RP-SMA connectors. I couldn't find the cam pin until I found THIS documentation online.
I bought from BangGood:
F4 V5PRO Flight Controller 5.8G 40CH 0/25/200/600mW Switchable FPV Transmitte w/ 5V BEC OSD PDB.
Also available at GearBest:
HGLRC F4 V5 PRO Flight Controller
I setup the first one with a 4-in-1 esc. I have test flown it in my kitchen and it seems good. Very compact, very simple wiring. I run the power into my 4-in-1 esc as the bottom board then into the FC. I skipped using the current sensor and XT60 connector. I didn't want to run the XT-60 power connector from the second board in the stack although I think it could work. I will probably try that later. I wish it had a motor signal port and uart 3 or 6 on the same port as sbus so I could get sbus and smart port telemetry from just one port. I haven't hooked up the buzzer yet. I don't know if I will like having the buzzer on a port instead of direct soldered to the board. It might work better. I will setup the second with 4 individual escs. I will write more about it soon.
Hey Kyle, I too bought the F4V5PRO and a Racerstar 4in1 30A ESC with the integrated current and voltage sensor. Does your 4in1 ESC have these sensors? If so, did you manage to get the current sensor output into the F4V5PRO without connecting the FC directly to the battery power? Cheers, Christina
ReplyDeleteMy 4-in-1 esc has a current sensor also. I decided not to use it on that build. I don't like adding an extra wire and using up another uart just for current sense. So I just ran full voltage through thin wires to the aio-fc to get voltage sensing. On another build with an omnibus f4 I did run the tx line from a 4-in-1 esc to the rx uart 3 and did get current and voltage sense info. Have you tried it yet with the F4V5Pro? I wanted to order 1 or 2 more of them but banggood has been sold out for a while.
DeleteCan this board accept INAV firmware, plan to pun in a flying wing due to full integrated component
ReplyDeleteI have only installed inav on an f3 omnibus that had a barometer. I would like to hook up inav, gps, compass, baro on this aio-fc but there is no barometer onboard. Is a flying wing ok without barometer or do you have that external also? inav works on omnibus f3 and f4, so it should work on this board also since it uses the omnibus f4 firmware. Happy flying :)
ReplyDeleteI'm still loving this board. I just ordered 2 more. Only $45 each now. How can you beat that for a fc and vtx. I used to have problems with wire solder joints disconnecting after crashes. None with this.
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ReplyDeleteI cannot get smart port to work. It does not pickup the sensors when I search for them. Am I missing something? Using the XSR receiver and BF 3.1.7.
Thanks