Hobbyking's KK2 Control Board: THE WALKTHROUGH 

dhdsracer, thank you. As someone else pointed out it is refreshing to watch a video where you aren't thinking of shooting yourself the whole time. You speak so we can hear and understand and you move right through the info. I can replay it if I miss something. Your sound it clear. Thank you. It would have taken most people an hour to do this video. Keep it up. Oh and you seem to actually know what you are saying. And No Accent. Thank You!! I don't feel like I just lost a chunk of my life and can never get it back. Thanks again. DrMarty

and I wanted to thank you for all you help to all of us out here that need your expertise

You are correct my #4 ESC is the bad one. I hate to see this happened high in the air. Thank you for resolving this problem.

got it all figured out ..all i nee now are the esc ..still waiting on them hopefully this week ..thank you very much ..your videos are very informative ..

im not quite sure what your asking. Accelerometers measure linear drift while gyros measure rotational force. All you need for planes are gyros. But yes, this and the old kk can stabilize planes whe set up properly. Hobbyking has a plane specific stabilizer now. I'd recommend that first.

Great to see someone going through this as im thinking of building a tri-copter and am going to use this board....thanks again

Stick scaling will still be useful if you want to have more adjustment then your radio can give. If you will be using it for FPV or regular flying around, the stock setting will be great. If you want to test faster maneuverability, you will need to slowly bump them up.

Anytime! Thanks for the support and expect much more!

Still a great video after all these years. I just bought my first quad (drone) with a FC (it's used), and it has the KK2.1.19. I am really thankful I was able to just bind my transmitter to the FC and fly immediately - I had no idea about much of the KK2. If it didn't fly out of the shoot, I would have worried about all these settings in the firmware. I've watched this video a few times as I fly more. Things become more clear the more I am flying. I found a couple of reasons in KK2 setup why my throttle way overpowered my elevator - the quad didn't have much "forward", it was very limited. Any add of throttle would result in much altitude. Looking forward to getting out early tomorrow a.m. to try out. One thing I have to figure out is using the Aux switch for self leveling which I have been flying with but may not need, and using the Aux switch to switch between Profile 1 and Profile 2. I guess I can switch the self leveling to the stick control. Thanks for the great share, still very helpful.

Oh yeah. I've been in that boat! This should do it for you. Turn the KK2 off and on again. push button 4 push button 3 (four times ) push button 4 push button 3 push button 4 push button 1 push button 3 (36 times) push button 4

Great Video .Having recently got a KK 2.1.5 board and built my first multi rotor I am happy to say that your vid cleared up a lot of questions that I found a multitude of answers for online and It became obvious to me that it's the old everyone has a different oppinion on how to do the initial setup! and your vid cuts through all those advices that only confuse.THANK YOU Fly Safe Fly Heaps Fly Hard JcinAuz

Yes, absolutely. They look different but the motors are essentially in the same location.

Thanks Don for another great video ;)

thank you for getting my LCD to show the program again. FW

Thanks for that little heads up! Can't wait to play around with it :)

Great info. Great job at explaining everything in detail

Sounds like analog RFI from the motors or an low level IF interference from the receiver. Check all the connectors and make sure they are making good contact. The twitching tail rotor sounds familiar to me for some reason but, all I can say is make sure the wires that run from the controller board to your tail rotor aren't next to any other motor speed controller, servos, the main controller or the receiver board. You might try shielding the servo's controller leads to block any RF excitation.

Hi Jay, If I may I hope DH doesn't mind. I believe the CCPM settings control the position and ON/OFF function of the RX side of the board (not fully confirmed till tomorrow). Under MODE SETTINGS, there is an option to turn CCPM OFF or ON. As you know, the instruction sheet shows you the positions to plug in your RX plugs (AIL/ELE/THR/RUD/AUX). The CCPM Mix shows (AIL/ELE/RUD/THR/AUX). It seems you might need to match the two to make it work properly. I will confirm tomorrow if I am nutso -- r

A very good no nonsense guide, thank you for posting this ;-)

Finally got one! thanks for this vid. My APM 2.5 3dr is way too unpredictable.

Thanks for reply. Look fwd to new videos on this. Newbie.

Yeah, Ben did say that but he was incorrect. Stick scaling multiplies your input value. Mo stick scaling, mo twitchy, mo control!

YES! thanks for the upload.

That is normal. It's just the kk2 telling the esc's it has no signal when in the menus. It's a safety feature. The motors twitching is simply the pulse from the esc's to make the beep.

answer for question 1: either you need to calibrate your esc's as the throttle curve isn't right on the 1 which is going slower or you have a faulty motor or esc. answer for question 2: front is between motors 1 and 2 on an x quad

make sure all your esc's are set to nimh battery setting. It sound like one esc is going into low voltage cutoff.

The HK stabilizer came out less then a week ago. I doubt anyone even tested it yet. Self leveling it a form of autopilot, not stabilization. Accelerometers counter act drift and are rarely needed on a fixed wing. Are you looking to counter act wind and bumpy air or have the plane level it's self?

Good man, you got it first, I'm still waiting for mine:) Very useful info, it will make my life a bit easier, thumbs up mate:))

It's not auto pilot. It only levels the craft. If you loose orientation you can flip a switch and keep from crashing till you regain orientation. Sounds fairly beginner friendly to me.

It doesn't effect on a quad so don't worry about it. It's to manage servo shake on tricopters!

Thanks for the video, my board is in the post at the moment, so I'm really looking forward to your tuning videos. Does the KK really need to be mounted on some vibration dampening material like the original KK, or does it 'know' to compensate for this somehow ?

you arm with the rudder or Yaw channel. On mode 2, it's my left stick with the throttle at 0.

Nope, stick scaling is more like travel adjustment on your radio. There could be a small amount of expo built into the board but scaling will effect how sensitive the unit responds to your input.

Excellent video.

@dhdsracer wow thanks for the fast reply, glad to here its not a fault even if a bit annoying. Thanks

Thumbs up! Very cool, thanks for posting. Now I don't have to read the manual =). I'll be checking out your other vids.

Thanks for the video. Mine just shipped, cant wait! Question - Since I have a computer radio (futaba 9c) and I have full expo adjustments, and adjustable throttle curve, is stick scaling still useful? Or should I just turn it up to 100% and do the main adjustments with my TX?

Front left motor: CW, front right motor: CCW, rear motor doesn't matter, but usually CW. Those are also the settings used with this board.

Have you tried to fly it or are you on the string only? These are amazing controllers but they can require some patience at times. What ESC's are you using too? Some simply don't work with multi's.

Great video. Thanks a ton!

Thank you and awesome video!

Thanks!

I like your explanation of the KK2 board.my set up ail right motor +value left motor -value: elev front motor +value rear motor -value. the quad is set up for X mode.when throttling up it wants to flip forward, what do I need to adjust to make go up. Thanks

I honestly do not see add-ons for this board coming out. GPS would be nice but I think it will need to wait for the KK3 or you can start looking into MultiWii/Arducopters.

Great video, this was really helpful :)

Thanks for the video. Very helpful. When do you think they will come out with a GPS for this unit? Looks like they are moving in that direction. Not a bad deal for $29.00

Great video. Thank you.

Turn the KK2 off and on again. push button 4 push button 3 (four times ) push button 4 push button 3 push button 4 push button 1 push button 3 (36 times) push button 4 Hope it helps!

This was fw 1.0 the newest has a few extra features but the basics are the same.

The left motor/motors are receiving less power. Check if the power cable is longer to that/those motors. My PCB based micro quad has that problem, the motor furthest from the battery plug always dies first.

Can you do a set up for a tri copter with the kk2 board please on the basic settings for beginners thanks

Many thanks.

Hi dhdsracer The ESC's are HiModel FLY-30A-pro SB, programmed them as you suggested to N-Hi batteries, this system worked on on a heavy Quad I designed using Electrical conduit using the original KK1 board, now fitted to a X600 frame, I burnt original board with a faulty connection, tried a i86L board, couldn't understand dip switch settings,no help available, and now trying KK2 board,where from here Regards Goofa

Hi DH, First, before I hit you with my question, let me thank you for all your work on the KK Boards. I'm just now getting into one and have some questions concerning the version I have. It says 1.2, but has CCPM Mix. Also under the Sensor Test otion I am getting NOT OKAY results for Gyro X and Y. Is this an indication that the board is bad? Thanks for your input. r

Al-some work! Thanks!

two KK2 questions: One: as I'm just trying to take off and hover a bit, I notice that one motor isn't spinning very fast, in fact it wants to stop. Two: what is "FRONT" in an "x" quad? Is it in the direction of motor one. or is it between motors one and two????

@triple5ic Negative ghost rider. Your stuck with it.

On my kk2 board has cppm not ccpm. but thanks for your comment.

hey Don, I am just getting my KK2 board going and this is my first quad copter, but am having problems with ESC calibration, I don't know what sounds to listen for. Could help with that, or maybe you could make vid about this part of setting up a multi rotor. thanks mike

no, the board is only powered by M1. Just plug and play.

You ether have the voltage alarm on and set up wrong or it's your ECS's and you didn't calibrate them yet. That's my guess.

Well done.

Hi again, I am flying my quad thanks to you and your advice. Still a little question lingers in my mind, when the craft is powered up self leveling is off, when I switch it on it tells me it is on. When taking off it goes forward by it self and wild, when the switch is turned off all is well again. Is there something that I forgot to set please advice. Thanks again FW

Great video and just wanted to say thanks for helping me understand the kk board. I got the original kk board bit think I'm gonna buy this one instead . Is it easy to set up in an x configuration cos I'm thinking of converting my sk450 to a dead cat version. Any help would be much appreciated

HI mate,, cheers for all your vids, great help. But I recently bought a 3y tricopter {fibreglass body} I can not seem to stop the tail servo from twitching constantly left or right. But it does increase with throttle increase. I have played around with the servo filter..no good. It is a digi servo and is set high,,any Ideas? please. thanks again Peter

nice job thanks mate

Don, what's your opinion on the best upgrade from a KK board? I mean lest's say you have $50. What's the best board in the range?

Hey thanks for the videos, they've been quite helpful. I wanted to ask a noob question that perhaps you could answer. I am new to this hobby and have the kk2.0 board which I'm using to run a quadcopter in "+" configuration. My problem is whenever I try to takeoff the quad just wants to flip over and crash. I've checked and rechecked the direction and orientation of the motors and props. Could this be an issue with the firmware, or is there a trim setting that I'm missing? Thanks.

If you go to the HK video where Ben is introducing the kk2.board for the 1st time, at 1:22, he says "stick scaling is kinda like expo" Video - ZB9PAEzwkqo. Is he thinking of something else? Thanks for your videos by the way. Very much appreciated.

No i couldn't get it to work, turned out to be a faulty gyro so i had to replace the board. Do you mean fw version 1.5? i didn't think there was a version 1.6.

With the new 1.5 ver some menus changed... would you do a update video? lol

Thanks for all your videos they have helped a lot while building my 450 with kk 2.0 board and v1.5 firmware. The problem im having is when i press menu and go into the settings all 4 motors keep beeping and twitching every 2 seconds or so whilever im in the menu and I've not seen this on any other, when i exit the menu the motors stop beeping and twitching and it flys ok, do you have any idea why this is? Thanks

I will try to explain what is happening. the value is in the mixer editor ail -71,elev71 (ch 1), ail 71,elev 71 (ch 2), ail 71, elev -71 (ch 3), ail -71, elev -71 (ch 4). The quad is the smaller size 220 cm, when the throttle is increase the quad lifts the back side mot 3 and 4 up towards the front to flip it over. I hope you have an solution what I need to adjust. Thank you in advance. Fw

Hi focusonrc I asked dhdsracer if I should flash it with the V 1.4 firmware as supplied it has V 1.2 he hasn't replyed, maybe on holiday's, I'm going away for a week myself, think I will give it a go when I come back can't get it to go as it is, so have nothing to loose, best of luck with yours, I am cheesed off watch it work for others. Regards Goofa

Hi dhdsracer. I have been trying for 3 days to program a KK2 for my X Quad, have followed the manual I believe and now have resorted to the string method, followed the instructions for that and can get it to almost stay in hover position if I increase throttle to far it wants to rotate around the string have tried outside will hover in a fashion and slowly Yaw anti clockwise am about to bin it have no problems with beetle Quads, any Ideas Regards Goofa

Grate video, My kk2 board in the menu doesnt have the setting that says esc calibration, instead it has something that says cppm setting what is this used for?

I have no clue what your asking here! Where are these values?

Have yet to find a forum, video or whatever that explains what exactly P gain, P limit, I gain and I limit do. I know what the first two do but no the second two.

is stick scaling the same thing as expo?

Do you have to cut the power wires from 3 of the 4 escs when plugging it into the board?

Great vids mate,very helpful,you have a new sub :) ,i'm seriously thinking of getting one of these but cant seem to find info on if this will fly a v tail config quad,i'm hoping you can answer this, Thankyou.

so self leveling is a autopilot? it gets less agile? and is that good for beginners?

My LCD is blank, can you tell me what is wrong with it. I installed m1,2,3,4 and all the receiver cables. Thanks for your help. FW

Thanks, but do you know what the servo filter is for? im using on a 450 quad so should i set to zero or leave at 50?

actually i just realised that my angles in between the motors are not exactly 90degrees.. (they are more like 85-ish degrees... ) do you think that that is the source of the problem?

Hi,I'm new to home built quad copters,I have purchased the KK2 board but haven't a clue how to wire it all up,,at the moment i have a box of bits,I have pre assembled the quad frame and that's as far as i have got,I'm not sure about the wiring of the speed controllers(which wire goes where)from the motor and connecting to the KK2 board and so on,can you please help?

how did you power it up with out any thing connected ?where did you connect the battery and what voltage pls?

Hi, Have do a test on MultiWii PRO Flight Controller w/MTK GPS Module.? Tks

Can you explain this problem. My quad is a 230 mm, it flies fine when the battery is full. When the battery power gets into the 40 % my quad wants to roll to the left, is there an adjustment to compensate for this problem? Thanks for your help. FW

Hi, i think ive got the settings on the kk 2.0 pretty much spot on now but the only thing is my quad wants to yaw right all the time very slowly, i got all zeros in rx check so im guessing its to do with the rudder gains/limits but dont want to start changing things when ive got it so close, could you point me in the right direction? thanks

thank you bud

Hi, I have finished my setup but now, each time I turn power on, lcd led on the card turn red and lcd screen cleared after 3 seconds ! Have an idea ? Thanks to answer.

so because this thing has accelerometers, it can actually stablise airplanes unlike what gyros do? is it good? please help !!!!

Hi again, my first kk 2.0 board is working great but ive just built another quad using the kk 2.0 and im getting a warning message when i power up, it says "sensor calibration data out of limits" and in sensor test the gyro y says 491 not ok, everything is connected right and reciver test are all zero and running in right direction, do you know what the problem is and what i can do? thanks

What is it plugged into at the beginning and how do you turn it on? I am new to this :)

Hi, are you using the new V1.5 FW in this video? its just my menu looks slightly different, in the misc. settings you have screen contrast and i dont but i have something called servo filter which is set at 50, do you know what this is? thanks

i just got mine and when i plug in power and in safe window ..it emits pulsing beeps..and when i go in ito the settings the soud goes out ..i see it here on this vid that it dont do that ..something wrong w/ mine?..

I have trouble getting my ESC's to work with my KK2 board, i just hear constant beeping. Transmitter appears to work perfectly with the board when checking the Receiver Test. Also tried calibrating using the kk2.0 but i never got a confirmed beep signal after lowing the throttle down to idle. I'm using the kk2.0 with Turnigy Micro-Quad(PNP from hobbyking) and a JRPROPO transmitter. Any idea why this isn't activating my esc's? it tried doing the esc's by themselves and worked fine.

Hi, where I connect the battery to sense the voltage? The kk2 lcd is showing: Battery 0.0V. Thank you

Hi, can these boards be used without computor radio, 35meg standard radio is all I have,thank you.