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Spektrum DX6i Trainer Port Hack

Hi,

  I am looking for a way to connect an arduino to the trainer port of the DX6i and send ppm commands to my drone. I have found a few people reading the ppm signal from the trainer port to use the DX6i in flight simulators but I want to go the othe

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Spektrum DX6i Trainer Port Hack

Hi,

  I am looking for a way to connect an arduino to the trainer port of the DX6i and send ppm commands to my drone. I have found a few people reading the ppm signal from the trainer port to use the DX6i in flight simulators but I want to go the othe

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Problems connecting via xBee

I have changed my xBees so they work on 57600 but when i try and connect using APM2 it just times out. If I connect using the USB cable it works fine. Can anyone help? If i use old firmware and the old Configurator it connects using the xBee without

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Lipo Issues

I have got my quad to the stage where it will fly and i get about 7 minutes runtime from my 11.1v 1800mah Lipo. I wanted to try and extend the runtime so i purchased a 11.1v 4000mah Lipo. The first time i flew the quad with the new battery the quad r

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Srange behaviour in stable mode

Hi i have been having issues getting my home made quadcopter to fly. To test bits out i built a rig so i could spin it up but keep it tied down. Basically when i increase the throttle two motors stop spinning and while the other two spin up fine. Als

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Problems with stable flight mode

Hi,

  I have an issue with the flight modes on my quadcopter. of i put it in acro mode and move the right stick on my controller with the throttle at min each prop will spin up, if I put it in stable mode the right stick seems to stop working infact t

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Stablity issues

Hi,

   I have finally got my quadcopter fully built but i am having some random stability issues. When i take off it seems to drift in one direction, I can counter act this using the RC transmitter but after a while it seems change and will become uns

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Battery Monitor

Hi,

   Does anyone know if the Arducopter code is developed enough for battery monitoring. I can see a section in the code but is it actually used at this time? If it is can you give me some pointers on getting it up and running. I currently have a 2C

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Gyro States

I have been building a quadcopter and i have a random issue where i have to put the oilpan at an odd angle to make the artificial horizon to show level.... Is there some way that i am missing to Zero the settings to make the horizon correct when the

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Wiring issue with my quadcopter

Hi,
I have been building a quadcopter over the last few weeks, I had all the ESC's connected up to a standard 1.3amp 7.4v RC battery and everything seemed to work except there wasnt enough power to drive all 4 ESC's and motors on the 1.3 amp battery s

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RC receiver issue

Hi,

  I have recently put together my ArduPilot Mega and i have attached my futaba FP-R116FB receiver however when i load the RC test sketch i do not see any input from the receiver....

 

I have read about PPM firmware causing issues but i only purchase

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