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I have decided to venture into quad flying now too.
i have a cheap Chinese 250 frame i bought from Bangood, Afro 12amp combo set from HK
and running the Naze32 board.
I am having some issues, i am using google baseflight to communicate with the FC, i had gotten it to connect once after i went through the instructions and that was the last time the controller connected to baseflight. i tried bridging the bootloader tabs and trying to flash the firmware again but nothing. I have done extensive reading up online and have tried everything, well obviously not everything?
So i am at an absolute loss now i don't know if maybe i have wiped the FC by mistake? so i need help, advice, encouragement or something. Please help i am unfortunately challenged when it come to this sort of thing, but i really want to learn and understand. thanks in advance.........sorry about the long MSG :-)

Hi topgun,
I really havn't had anything to do with the Naze 32 board I have flashed the KK2 board which is quite a nice simple unit. It has an LCD screen and menu buttons on it so you don't have to connect to a pc to adjust things. The other one I've used is the HK mega 2.7 which is the Ardu-pilot clone. I've not had any trouble connecting to it all. Craig Sinclare I think has some experiance with the Nase controller he may well be able to help you out with it. Keep going and don't give up it's probably just something simple.

One of the things I found was with windows 7 is that it won't let you install unsigned drivers which makes using those little usb flashing tools difficult. You can select an option in windows to force it to install unsigned drivers by pushing the "F8" button while windows is loading and selecting the desired option, I think it's at the bottom of the list. Note this setting reverts back to the default automatically when you restart windows 7 so you'll need to do this every time you install an unsigned driver. This was something that stopped me from flashing my KK2 board for a while.

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Hi, the other Jason. RE conversation on Saturday at the field about Multistar Battery,4000/10C/3s-4s,battery,measure my Quapcopter I think they’ll fit, according to HobbyKing website, the height of the batteries is H34 mm /L112mm/W30mm my Quapcopter is H36mm so it is a tight fit, rest will fit find?.
Kind regards, Bob.

Hi Bob,
Those multi-star lipos are pretty good I ended up getting two 5200 10C pacs. They are the same size and weight as the 4000 25C Rino packs. I'm getting a good 10-12 mins with pleanty of reserve and it's not stressing the packs at all.

I was having a look at LiFe packes on the net you can get nearly twice the energy density of LiPo but there is a C rating penalty. Tho' the new lower KV motors would allow running more cells in series for the same revs so the power (Watts) would need to come up by using a higher voltage, to keep the amps down. It means a re-think of which motors and ESCs I'm using. Have a look at this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adfydRg8PYU