Hi all,
I just assembled my Arducopter 3DR, downloaded the newest Processing 1.0, Arducopter 2.3 code and Mission Planner 1.1.34.
I notice that the mission planner has a firmware for arducoptor with it which is nice. Here is my issue though, I mounted the Mag on top of the Oilpan circuits down and connectors facing forward. I do not see a way to change the orientation in the mission planner to do this.
My solution was uncomment this line...
//#define MAG_ORIENTATION AP_COMPASS_COMPONENTS_DOWN_PINS_FORWARD
as recommended in
http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/AC2_Magnetos
Easy peasy, just recompile and upload to the board.
Is adjusting the setting of the Arducopter ok through the mission planner now that I have a different firmware loaded in? Will this mess up the changes I made to change the orientation of the mag?
When I tried to take off this morning, I noticed the Quad kept trying to tilt to the left. Without the mag, it was taking off nice and level, just sliding sideways ocassionally. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Peter J. Fischel.
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Well it seems that all is well. I flew it a couple of times and seems to be working ok. I don't see much effort from the quad to correct the varying slew. I am thusfar very impressed with Arducopter code and the 3DR