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Permalink Reply by Eddie Weeks on August 14, 2012 at 6:59pm

Video from my house, on a short mission...  1:20 long

Eddie

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Permalink Reply by Balloon on August 15, 2012 at 7:14am

Good Work

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DeveloperPermalink Reply by Randy on August 14, 2012 at 2:24am

There was somebody out here who was having their quad roll-over after about 5~6 minutes of flight...I can't find that post but in case the person who wrote that sees this...I was having a similar issue but I've found that it was caused by a voltage cut-off setting in one of my ESCs being set to medium when it should be low.

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Permalink Reply by Johnny Yu on August 14, 2012 at 2:47am

Actually, you should set Battery Type to NI-xx (even you are running on Lipo), which will disable voltage cut off completely.

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Permalink Reply by dudz on August 14, 2012 at 2:01pm

Ah Ha !! ... I know for a fact my ESC's are set to medium. They stop the quad flying when the batt voltage gets to 10.6V . Sometimes it rolls over on landing. I will do this right now !  Thankyou !!

Does this mean I will get longer flight times after I set it to low ?  I'm getting 14mins without FPV kit mounted with a 3 cell 8000mah lipo

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DeveloperPermalink Reply by Marco Robustini on August 16, 2012 at 1:58am

MMmmm... for me Randy is always better set the esc to "ni-mh" battery and use a timer during flight, or acoustic/visual lipo monitor ... :-)

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Permalink Reply by Christiaan van Vollenstee on August 17, 2012 at 4:50am

Hello, I have the standard 20 Amp ESC from the 3DR web sitewith the 850kv motors on the 3DR frame. I do not have nice hardware like you how can I check if one of my ESC's is this case. Version 2.6 worked perfectly for me and the next day I loaded 2.7 and life was not wonderfull for my quad as it was before.

 

Any help will be apretiated

Regards

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Permalink Reply by Darren Stan Oakley on August 14, 2012 at 4:29am

No problem for the screenshot Rana. If I contribute this way as I'm not to hot on the code side of development.

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Permalink Reply by Graham Miller on August 15, 2012 at 2:29am

Hi guys sorry not been posting much lately just been so busy.. anyway I still have mt trusty APM 1 and moved onto the APM 2 but after just bench testing for a month I decided to add this to a frame FM450 but it would not power up at the out rail

this has now been resolved and I now have my APM2 up and running (thanks to everyone involved) So here are a few pic's

As you can see I have mounted the a plate to the frame with anti vibration foam and then mounted the protective box on to that plate with anti vibration foam. I have also fixed the new 3DR GPS to the top with the same foam.

Loaded the new 2.7.1 and with out touching anything it is rock solid :-) a wee bit of fine tuning and it will be there. I hope to do some testing later today and report back and maybe a video if I have time.

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Permalink Reply by Rui Manuel Cravo Marques on August 15, 2012 at 6:31am

I'm using a frame like this for my test quad. With MP32 (Arducopter32 arm), 10x4.7 props, turnigy 1050kv motors and a 3s 6000mah nanotech battery, I'm getting 25 minutes of flight time plus 1/2 minutes for landing :) seems to me a very good time. And I'm not talking of 25m hovering, but really pushing it a bit.

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Graham Dyer on August 15, 2012 at 7:02am

That's very good flight time, around 12-13A average current, I get 15 minutes from a 5000 3S using 15A returning 4000mAh (80%) to the pack using 11x4.7 props, less if I use 10x4.7's.

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Permalink Reply by Darren Stan Oakley on August 15, 2012 at 8:23am

To be fair thats about what I would expect from a battery of that capacity. I get 15mins with the dji frame 900 motors and 10/4.5 props. Only using a 3200 battery though. Suppose mine is very light with only half the capacity.
Great frames in my opinion
Looks good Graham ;)

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