I don’t take responsibility if you crash on the GT500…
Did you upload the setup as well?
It worked - at least it flew up and was very stable in the small confines of my garage. Responded to the sticks pretty good, but was taking it easy. I do have to reverse my rudder control. I will put more details up on my settings, but at this point I just followed the previous post, picked the Y6 Hex config and have not modified any other settings. That will come when I can take it outside and see how it handles.
Here’s a link to my YouTube vid: youtube.com/watch?v=n9Pj-4X7y1I
Wouhou…!
You might want to lower the gain on Yaw.
But it does look stable.
So now both 400 & 500 have been tested…!
Nice Video! I’m glad it worked out.
I have a question about supplying power to the MultiWii Flip board. After much searching and reading I finally figured out the ESC’s are actually proving the Vdc for the controller. If I have the signal, +V, and ground hooked up from all 4 ESC’s, wouldn’t there be some issues with voltage differential? Or are you only suppose to supply +Vdc from one ESC
Next question - The ESC is only putting out +5Vdc. I’m new to the whole RC thing but not Arduino’s. Whenever I use an Arduino I always supply it with 5.5 to 6Vdc. There is usually a .5V drop by in power by the time it gets to the ATmega chip. I learned how to use Arduino from Adafruit.com and the lovely miss ladyada in most of turtorials talks about supplying .5V more to the boards?. Not knowing where the power came from I already wired up a 7Vdc voltage regulator off the Lipo battery…
-Finally my question, can I just supply the MultiWii board with the 7Vdc from my regulator and just use the signal wires to the ESC’s?
I know I can and it will work for powering the board, but I want to make sure there isn’t some reason you have to power it from the ESC’s?
You need to remove the +v on 3 of the ESCs so they don’t “fight” each other.
5vdc will work no problem, it’s made to be powered that way.
No worries.
We still need some more tuning before our manuals are released… Sorry about that… 
I’ve only got 4 channels hooked up, what is the 5th one for? and where is the best place to put it going into the Multiwii?
To actually “Fly” you only need 4 channels.
But if you want to be able to trigger between inflight mode (Like AutoLevel etc…) you need a 5th channel.
On the FLIP board you have the “D7 AUX1” to connect it.
i use D7 to trigger Autolevel and it also turns my LEDS on at the same time. This is also my default flying mode as im not pro with gyro only flight.
youtube.com/watch?v=C5Ptqo4NYRU
Hi All,
We have Crash Kits online on Lynxmotion and they will be on RobotShop very soon.
lynxmotion.com/c-166-vtail-400.aspx
lynxmotion.com/c-167-vtail-500.aspx
We also added the Mini-VTail (Hardware Only) kit.
It’s a mini version of the VTail platform, we currently don’t have a setup of Motors/ESCs but we will soon.
lynxmotion.com/c-178-mini-vtail.aspx
finished my canopy for the 500 size today. lot of work to make a good shape, but happy with it. just painting it and ad some decals and fly this thing 
http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Foto-MHY8EAMZ-D.jpg
http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Foto-4NNSE3SL-D.jpg
http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Foto-ZZHH7UCP-D.jpg
http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Foto-AXXYTQZT-D.jpg
http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Foto-TRHZ3LJU-D.jpg
@ fdv
Thanks a lot to have took the time to post it here, greatly appreciated.
As i told you, it look very nice… 
Keeping the top plate in case of a crash is a nice touch too.
won’t crash, this one’s for cruising around. I use the 400 for acro and the upcoming/ordered mini for power-flying(4s set-up 
)
So I’m having issues with this thing, I ordered my MWC 1.5 from Robotshop and I’m thinking it probably does not have the right config file for the flip. I downloaded the one you posted here. But I can’t get it to verify, I’m getting these errors:
Alarms.cpp: In function ‘void turnOff(uint8_t)’:
Alarms.cpp:204: error: ‘BUZZERPIN_OFF’ was not declared in this scope
Alarms.cpp:210: error: ‘LEDPIN_OFF’ was not declared in this scope
Alarms.cpp: In function ‘void blinkLED(uint8_t, uint8_t, uint8_t)’:
Alarms.cpp:328: error: ‘LEDPIN_TOGGLE’ was not declared in this scope
Alarms.cpp: In function ‘void toggleResource(uint8_t, uint8_t)’:
Alarms.cpp:382: error: ‘LEDPIN_ON’ was not declared in this scope
Alarms.cpp:383: error: ‘LEDPIN_OFF’ was not declared in this scope
I don’t have any lights or buzzers hooked up, I’m guessing it’s something I need to “//” but I’m not sure I’ve been going through the code but I’m not sure where to disable it at…signed frustrated 
I include a VTail Multiwii pre-configured for the FLIP controller. (Probably the one you got from us…)
Also note the little picture showing the pinout and rotation of each prop.
Can you tell us exactly which files you used?
Also a print screen of your arduino ide?
BLAH! 
I just noticed on the IDE screenshot I didn’t change the board…I thought I did…guess not…
BTW: We received the screws that were missing, and sorry again for the delay.
So we now have VT400 and VT500 Hardware only kits in stock.
lynxmotion.com/p-898-hunter- … y-kit.aspx
lynxmotion.com/p-899-hunter- … y-kit.aspx
robotshop.com/en/lynxmotion- … -only.html
robotshop.com/en/lynxmotion- … -only.html
So you have it uploaded ?
Wow that canopy is looking pretty nice - you making anymore for people to purchase from you? I have a 3D printer and was thinking about doing something for mine, but honestly getting busy with testing out boards, motor, esc’s to see what I like. I got the second VTail 500 frame in the mail today with a bunch of propellers, I figure I will be chipping them up pretty good testing.
I have my 3DR 850Kv motors, I have the DJI 920Kv motors from the F450, few different sets of ESCs to try out as well. In the front of my DJI setup Vtail I have the Quadrino, MultiWii 328 from HK, KK2.0 board and the APM all of which I plan on experimenting with.
I am going to work on documenting stuff to share, so while this damn winter is on us, I will be mostly working on setup, location, wiring in and etc - til I can get out do some flying
Cool…!
DJI gps pole fit the tail screws