"I guess you saw my suggestion on your RcGroups thread to power the APM first ;)
Have been battling this arming issue for quite some time. The frustrating part is that it's only a few ESCs affected and that the issue was fixed in 2.6 and 2.7…"
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Gas powered Hex, stuck on the ground
Started this discussion. Last reply by Andreas Mar 25. 8 Replies 0 Likes
OK.. I have built 10-15 tri,hex,octo… ect all with AMP 1 2 2.5… All worked fine…for the most part.. Now I am building generator-copter… 23CC gas motor powering a 2000 watt brushless motor.. To…Continue
Crash with Tri-Copter... Very strange
Started this discussion. Last reply by Eddie Weeks Mar 2. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Running 2.5 with uBlox 2.9.1.... Really works well.... Loiter is Always <3 feet...Its so reliable, when I put it in Loiter I look away and plan a mission or go inside the house… This time I put in…Continue
Quick question
Started this discussion. Last reply by Luke Olson Dec 13, 2012. 3 Replies 0 Likes
In stab, where do I change the value for Max Angle of the copter...The default is 45 deg... I want to set it 30 for pitch and roll... The copter not the camera gimble..I have looked and looked.. …Continue
Boat is ready to launch
Started this discussion. Last reply by Eddie Weeks Dec 20, 2012. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Been flying multi copters on APM for years...Now, for work I am building a boat to carry an instrument in the Artic next summer...I uploaded the rover code, but the mission planner sometimes shows…Continue
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Eddie Weeks replied to Eddie Weeks's discussion Gas powered Hex, stuck on the ground"Well another ESC not working with APM 2.5... I don't get it...
All these ESCs (6 x Detrum 25A) and 1 Scorpion 60 will not arm with APM 2.5..
They work fine with receiver.. but thats it. !!!
What am I missing.…"
Eddie Weeks replied to Eddie Weeks's discussion Gas powered Hex, stuck on the ground"There will allways be a mid size battery on board... If the gen quits... can still land....
I have a Mix on my radio that powers up the gen as I power up the copter... I was able to keep the
voltage right around 4.0 volts /…"
Eddie Weeks replied to Eddie Weeks's discussion Gas powered Hex, stuck on the ground"There is no battery in the system.... other than the 10000 mah 4S.... which goes to a 10 amp UBEC
where I set the voltage from 5.2... to 4.9... no difference....
I think what you said about the ESC will be out of sync…"
Wiki NinjaGary McCray replied to Eddie Weeks's discussion Gas powered Hex, stuck on the ground
"Really great design.
Just a few thoughts Eddie,
Do you normally have a battery in the system?
If you do not have a battery is there any sort of regulation that prevents power from going to the APM before it is at least at 5 volts and smooth?
If the…"
Richard Boyhan replied to Eddie Weeks's discussion Gas powered Hex, stuck on the ground"Very cool design. Scary but cool. Good luck."
Mike Boland replied to Eddie Weeks's discussion Gas powered Hex, stuck on the ground"It sounds like the ESC's are not seeing the right voltage when they are armed.
How do you initiate switch on, is it just ramping up the motor/generator until voltages get high enough to power everything, or do you ramp up the motor/generator to…"
Eddie Weeks replied to Eddie Weeks's discussion Gas powered Hex, stuck on the ground"
BTW.... I could just plug a 4.8 volt batt into the receiver then power up the copter... that works...
But I want this to be done right..
Just saying"
Eddie Weeks posted a discussionGas powered Hex, stuck on the ground
OK.. I have built 10-15 tri,hex,octo… ect all with AMP 1 2 2.5… All worked fine…for the most part.. Now I am building generator-copter… 23CC gas motor powering a 2000 watt brushless motor.. To date the generator has produced over 1100 watts…. 70 amps at 16 volts… Test results show at this weight I need 7-800 watts to lift this noisy beast… A few days ago I was ready to start testing the copter itself… APM 2.5… Hex… with 17” CF props…See More
Eddie Weeks replied to Eddie Weeks's discussion Crash with Tri-Copter... Very strange"
Well... after 3 days.. no responce...
I guess I will get my hardware from rc-timer... 1/2 the price and the same service"
Eddie Weeks replied to Eddie Weeks's discussion Crash with Tri-Copter... Very strange"
Has anyone looked at these logs... ?
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Eddie Weeks replied to Eddie Weeks's discussion Crash with Tri-Copter... Very strange"
Well it did it again... Different copter... See attached tlog...
at 76%... go into loiter...
at 92%... It flies off... but it knew where it was...
no change in input 1 or input 2.... no change in output 1 or 2... …"
Eddie Weeks posted a discussionCrash with Tri-Copter... Very strange
Running 2.5 with uBlox 2.9.1.... Really works well.... Loiter is Always <3 feet...Its so reliable, when I put it in Loiter I look away and plan a mission or go inside the house… This time I put in Loiter at time index 83% and walked away…. Then I hear it fly into the tree… The tlog attached, shows, it knew it was moving to the tree…the distance to WP increasedSlowly to 5 meters then reset to 0, then keep going to the west… The GPS was %100 right onBecause that’s where I found it… under the…See More
Eddie Weeks replied to Tim Green's discussion a way to minimize circling in loiter?"I don't know.... The way you can check things... plug in...connect... get a real compass or
figure out which way north is.... Look at the Red line on the mission planer live...
If its more than 10-20 deg off..…"
Eddie Weeks replied to Tim Green's discussion a way to minimize circling in loiter?"I would do a log compass calibration....
This mean flying around for 5 min... disconect.... Use mission planner to cal the compass
with the Tlog you just made....
Most problems I have seen with loiter is assoicated with bas compass…"
Eddie Weeks replied to walthero's discussion Mute button for messages in Mission Planner would be great!"
I agree %100... I really like to hear the mode change, but I all ready know about the "No Data" because I unpluged the battery ...
Eddie Weeks
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