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3D RoboticsPermalink Reply by Chris Anderson on October 24, 2011 at 9:11pm

What code are you using?

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Permalink Reply by Ted Van Slyck on October 24, 2011 at 9:38pm

Chris, thanks for the fast response.

 

AC2.0.42 

MP 1.0.85

 

For kicks I unsoldered the magnetometer, then the baro alt started to work. At least it responds and gives output in the CLI test mode. Upon resoldering the magnetometer I still get an output of zero.

 

Heading: 0, XYZ: 0, 0, 0

 

Not sure what the XYZ 000 means.....

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks

Ted

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Permalink Reply by Ted Van Slyck on October 24, 2011 at 9:58pm

bad news, i apparently fried the pads off the compass when desoldering, so theres no way it getting put back on correctly, so I guess no testing until I can get a new one. must be more careful next time. I will report tomorrow whether the baro alt is actually functioning correctly or not.

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Permalink Reply by Ted Van Slyck on October 25, 2011 at 9:44am

update: the altimeter, after removing the compass works great, altitude hold included. I did fry my compass pulling it off, but I think I know what the problem was in the first place. I noticed a tiny short from solder splatter across two pins of the IC closest to the pin header on the compass. I will never know if that was the real culprit, but it would be a good bet I suppose. I solder around that open circuit board all the time, I am just lucky it didn't get the oil pan....

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