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Preparation

1. Landing Gear placement

With the Drone resting on the upper tray inside the box, insert the legs into the metal holders located on four corners of the drone, tight the metal nut, take out the Drone from the box and place it on the ground.

HERCULES X4 Drone

Figure *. Landing Gear placement

2. Complete Landing Gear tightening

Complete the tightening of the nuts with the drone on the ground, making sure that the legs are not loose.

HERCULES X4 Drone

Figure *. Complete Landing Gear tightening

3. Deployment of arms and alignment of propellers

Unfold each arm one by one by rotating 90 degrees until the axes of the inner and outer portions of the arms align. Open both blades of each propeller of the arms until they are aligned forming 180 degrees

HERCULES X4 Drone

Figure *. Deployment of arms and alignment of propellers

4.Arms tightening

Screw the floating metal thread of the arms into the joint. Make sure that the arms is not loose after tightening.

HERCULES X4 Drone

Figure *. Arms tightening

5. Fold sensor antenna

If using the antenna mast on the middle, fold and tighten it in vertical position.

HERCULES X4 Drone

Figure *. Fold sensor antenna

6.Place batteries

Place the batteries on top of the battery tray, with the connectors pointing to the back of the Drone. Then tighten the batteries by mean of the velcros (two velcros per battery).

HERCULES X4 Drone

Figure *. Place batteries

7.Turn on the drone

Keep in mind that two 6 cells batteries connected in series made one 12 cell battery, which is the voltage level needed to operate the Drone. You can connect the two batteries on top of the Drone, either to the two xt60 closer connectors labeled as

HERCULES X4 Drone

Figure *. Turn on the drone

8.Turn on Radio Control

Long press Power button on the Radio Control, run QGroundControl app, and wait to receive telemetry data from the dron.

HERCULES X4 Drone

Figure *. Turn on Radio Control

9. Check RC antennas

Make sure the RC antennas are properly opened.

10. Connect the GCS software to the Drone

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Follows the instructions described on the proper section on PART B in this manual.

11. Wait for the IMU heating

The flight controller is set to heat the internal IMU up to 60 degrees, but it will allow to arm the motor after reaching 50 degrees