What are different terms of flight controllers?

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The discussion focuses on the terminology and specifications of flight controllers essential for building a First Person View (FPV) quadcopter for racing. Key specifications include loop time, frequency modulation, refresh rate, and terms like SBUS, RX and TX pins, FPU, and UART. Understanding these parameters is crucial as they directly affect the performance and responsiveness of the quadcopter. The user seeks clarity on how variations in magnitude and frequency impact flight controller functionality.

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can anybody please tell me terminology of flight controller and it's specifications. Also, how these specs matter, like what is the effect of increase in Magintude or Frequency of different parameters which will help me buy a flight controller for a quadcopter. I want to build a FPV for racing.
 
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Aashish sarode said:
can anybody please tell me terminology of flight controller and it's specifications. ALSO HOW THESE SPECS MATTER ,LIKE WHAT IS THE EFFECT OF INCREASE IN MAGNITUDE OR FREQUENCY of different parameters which will help me buy a flight controller for a quadcopter. I want to build a FPV for racing.
what research have you done so far?
 
I have gone through the net content. But I don't understand it properly.The things like loop time, frequency modulation,refresh rate and stuff like that is not understandable for me so I need complete terminology of different specifications of flight controller.please
 
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Aashish sarode said:
can anybody please tell me terminology of flight controller and it's specifications. Also, how these specs matter, like what is the effect of increase in Magintude or Frequency of different parameters which will help me buy a flight controller for a quadcopter. I want to build a FPV for racing.
Aashish sarode said:
I have gone through the net content. But I don't understand it properly.The things like loop time, frequency modulation,refresh rate and stuff like that is not understandable for me so I need complete terminology of different specifications of flight controller.please
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@Aashish sarode -- You need to show a *lot* more effort in showing us what you have been reading. There is no way we can help, unless we understand what you have been reading and learning. Please post links to the reading you have been doing, and ask *specific* questions about that reading. You need to tell us what you want to optimize in your quadcopter controls and why.

Here is a good tutorial page about learning to fly quadcopters and using their controls:

http://www.droneybee.com/how-to-fly-a-quadcopter/
https://i1.wp.com/www.droneybee.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Transmitter-Marked-New.jpg?resize=810,526
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