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Permalink Reply by Ryan on March 11, 2012 at 10:26pm

HI,

Thanks for the reply. Your circling and flying away from you is exactly like I experienced in all but my last flight. Good to know that you were able to find a fix. The crash I experienced today was not a big deal I just hope to learn something from it.

The thing that messed me up the most was the logs. I am convinced now that there was something wrong. Earlier I figured I was doing something wrong when trying to read the data logs and nothing was working.

So to summarize I did learn to ensure that the data logging is working and to check the data. If things are not working correctly I will send it back to be checked out.

Funny thing is how do the gears in the aileron servos get stripped out in the crash. The plane hit about level directly into the nose. No damage to the wing at all besides striped aileron servo gears. Hitec 65HB servos. The tail boom of the plane cracked right in half and the stabilizer was hooked under the nose on the wire landing gear. Didn't have my phone on me and it was muddy where it crashed other wise I would have some pictures.

You are correct working it out is lots of fun. Glad your FPV missions have went well. Have any pictures of your plane?

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Permalink Reply by Damian ONeill on March 12, 2012 at 12:50am

Here you go.

Cheap and with PIDs already available.

I don't know much about electrics as I have only really sloped and mainly DS. But this was easy with a few mods on the spar. The last photo is my new one ($34) which I am putting esc and OSD in the fuz to save room and get the cog back without too much weight on the tail. (HK Raptor probably better and a bit more room but sold out).

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Permalink Reply by Damian ONeill on March 12, 2012 at 1:30am

Hers the other 2 pics

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Permalink Reply by Ryan on March 12, 2012 at 7:55pm

Thanks for the pictures. I think my next plane to fly the APM will be that exact one.

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Permalink Reply by Ramesh Tahlan on March 27, 2012 at 10:34pm

help

i have pasted this below from the Appendix section on lights of DIY on the colour of ABC lights on APM2, but in the colour pics on that page the colour of A on APM1 is Green and in APM2 is Red, so i hope, that what is written for A and C in text is correct....

 

APM 1 and APM 2 LED meaning

LEDs:	Behavior:
Power	On when powered
TX	Shows data coming in USB/FTDI port
RX	Shows data going out on USB/FTDI port
A C	Fast flashing while calibrating gyros, then pause, then rotation flashing (about 45 seconds total).
A	Flashing = Code loaded or loading, ready to arm. Solid on = Armed, ready to fly (arm by holding rudder stick full right for 4 secs)
C	GPS lock - C Flashing while waiting for GPS lock; Solid with GPS lock.
A C	Solid A and C and you are ready to fly

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Permalink Reply by Thorsten on March 30, 2012 at 12:25pm

Hi,

I found the information about LED description here at the topic.

Because I like to check my APM2 about a fault. At the description I found out that LED A B not flashing.

My freind have the same APM2 and it is still working.

If it possible at any case over terminal or Mission Planner to activate the LED for testing?

Maybe you can replay with PM to send me a link where I can found more information.

Also I have some points which are not logical from me. Drift and shift left some times with no imput from the RC.

Maybe the Gyro sensor have some defect or working not fine :( At the moment I didn'T know what I should can do to found the root cause to fix it.

Thanks.

Regards,

Thorsten

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