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A simple idea to share

Started by mark hubrich. Last reply by Shannon Morrisey 2 hours ago. 1 Reply

I everyone. I've been playing with UAV for a couple years now and I have an idea that may make some peoples lives a little better. I'm a little lazy, who isn't right? I have accumulated quite a few…Continue

Motor pulsing in Altitude Hold

Started by Warren Purnell. Last reply by Jan 6 hours ago. 14 Replies

Just an annoying problem with the motors pulsing in Altitude Hold.I don't seem to be able to tune it out entirely. I've disabled the Sonar. The Quad holds altitude quite well but the pulsing upsets…Continue

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Arducopter 3Dr or Phantom

Started by Fred LeFevre. Last reply by Fred LeFevre yesterday. 16 Replies

I've been planning on getting a phantom for sometime but recently it was suggested that I look at the arducopter. I've been doing some research and like the 3dr quad and hex rtf version. But I'm not…Continue

Building 3DR hex-b and don't know about the connections

Started by Steve Monro. Last reply by Vikrant yesterday. 4 Replies

Hello world.Firstly, I'm new to this (oh great I can hear everyone say) haha.... and I'm not asking this because I'm dumb. I'm quite a nerd when it comes to technical things. However as simple as it…Continue

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Comment by Zachary Koh on September 26, 2012 at 3:51am

@Randy
THANKS. I was extremely worried that my programming could have created some problem with the power distribution and inadvertently fried the apm.

But now, we realized that our NEW program allows the apm to function properly (i.e. board powers up, ESCs arm, motors respond to throttle input). However, uploading the regular ArduCopter 2.7.3, the motors stay in calibration mode (consistent beeping), regardless of what we do. Do you know why?

As for ESC overheating, is it caused by malfunctioning power distribution?

Thanks.


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Comment by Randy on September 26, 2012 at 3:14am

@Zachary re frying board through errors in the arducopter program,

    I don't think that's possible.  For things like an ESC where you've got large voltages that are being controlled by the firmware it's possible but as for the arducopter software, it's just running a program that changes signal out to ESCs, xbees, etc so I can't imagine how that could happen.

Comment by Zachary Koh on September 26, 2012 at 2:17am

Is it possible to fry your apm board through errors in the arducopter program?

Comment by Altaf on September 25, 2012 at 9:01am

How to add a flight mode of my own. .. ??


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Comment by Randy on September 19, 2012 at 8:32pm

@Lucas re obstacle avoidance,

    Somebody asked that same question on the sonar wiki earlier today, i guess it's a popular thing that people want.  We don't support that at the moment and no specific plans to add it although it wouldn't be too difficult.  People would have to buy at least 4 more sonars though..$120-ish..not terrible i guess.

Comment by Lucas Tan on September 19, 2012 at 8:12pm

What are the features that can be realised for an Arducopter? 
Are there something like obstacles avoidance?


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Comment by Randy on September 18, 2012 at 9:14pm

@Bradley re what is the pwm coming out of RX.  If you have your APM connected to the mission planner, go to the configuration screen, radio configuration screen and below or beside each of the green bars you will see the raw pwm value.

Comment by Bradley J Carr on September 17, 2012 at 9:53am

Could somebody tell me what the PWM is coming out of a RX.  I don't have my scope anymore so I really don't have a way of telling.  I needed to see what the range is coming out of my futaba radio..

Comment by Bertrand Duchiron on September 14, 2012 at 6:20am

@Daniel :

onglet flight planner,

click droit sur la carte

sous menu Map tool

Prefetch

Comment by Chapelat Daniel on September 14, 2012 at 5:59am

Bonjour,

une petite question: avec Mission Planner 1.2.11 comment avoir la fonction "Prefetch" ? le bouton a disparu!!

 

 
 
 

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