INAV: Calibrate your current sensor accurately and safely

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In this video, we take a look calibrating your current sensor. I'm doing this with INAV in this video. But the principal is the same for other flight controller firmware, such as ArduPilot or BetaFlight. I have an older video on calibrating the current sensor. But that involved having a prop on the aircraft and spinning it. This method takes away the danger involved with that. Plus it has a smoother current draw, so readings are much more stable.

The electronic load can be purchased from https://bit.ly/MrD_ElectronicLoad As I mentioned in the video. Have a hunt around, as you may well find it cheaper. Make sure to get the 180 Watt version.

✈️ Contents ✈️
00:00 Introduction
01:10 The electronic load: Required equipment
02:27 Multimeter and current measuring cable: Required equipment
03:36 The flight controller and what I've set up so far
04:03 Checking the current sensor scale in INAV
05:21 The web page with the current sensor calculator tool
05:53 Setting up the tool
06:23 Getting things ready to take the readings
06:45 Calibrating the voltage scale
08:26 Connecting up to calibrate the current sensor
09:54 Taking the current readings and entering them in the tool
12:28 Calculating the results and setting the scale and offset in INAV
12:54 Verifying the new current sensor readings
14:23 Conclusion

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🔗 Current Sensor Calibration tool on my website: https://www.mrd-rc.com/tutorials-tool...
⚙️ Electronic load: https://bit.ly/MrD_ElectronicLoad

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