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2.70 Conditions for Throttle Enable
Started this discussion. Last reply by Stephen Gloor Apr 6. 5 Replies 0 Likes
I have a problem at the moment with 2.70 on an AMP 2.5. When I select RTL in flight the throttle cuts. The aircraft was OK as it glided back to the Home position OK however all testing I have done…Continue
Mode1 V Mode 2 Radio Assignments
Started this discussion. Last reply by Eddie Furey Aug 28, 2012. 7 Replies 0 Likes
Just starting out in getting a APM into the air however I have run into a question. I fly Mode 1 with the throttle on the right hand stick and the pitch on the left. APM seems to be setup for Mode…Continue
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Stephen Gloor replied to Michael's discussion LiPo voltage help"My charger when charging allows you to see the voltages. I also have a FrSky module that does the same thing. The charger should be find to measure with - they are normally pretty accurate. I almost never use my multimeter as I did…"
Stephen Gloor replied to Michael's discussion LiPo voltage help"Hi Michael - that may be the case however if you have a dead cell then it will charge up however as soon as a load us applied it will very quickly drop to a low voltage leaving the other two nearly fully charged but the battery terminal voltage is…"
Stephen Gloor replied to Michael's discussion LiPo voltage help"Hi Michael - You might have a cell that is dying in the battery. Do you have a balance charger that can tell you the individual voltages?
Anyway for me this is the definative guide to LiPo…"
Stephen Gloor replied to Andrew Tridgell's discussion ArduPlane 2.72 released"Will try it this weekend. Having some big problems tuning the navigation on my Penguin on 2.70 so I will update it and see how I go."
Stephen Gloor commented on Daniel Portillo's blog post Results of two years of work."Do you have a written paper I can read?"
Stephen Gloor replied to kevin's discussion Need Advise PLS!!!! in the group ArduPlane User Group"I am just starting out in the APM world as well. I bought the kit with 3DR radios and the Mediatek GPS. I also bought the Airspeed Sensor.
I consider the Telemetry essential as otherwise you are flying blind. It is not hard to…"
Stephen Gloor replied to Maven Aircraft's discussion apm 2.5 locks servos and spirals to crash randomly in loiter and rtl -"It is the other way around:
https://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/APM25Power
With JP1 not connected the input and output rails are independent. In your case your ESC will be powering the servos and the APM Power module will be…"
Stephen Gloor replied to Maven Aircraft's discussion apm 2.5 locks servos and spirals to crash randomly in loiter and rtl -"So you have JP1 out and the aircraft ESC is powering your servos and the APM power module is powering the APM,RX and OSD?
I am only asking because I am pretty sure there is a 500mA problem with the APM power…"
Stephen Gloor replied to Maven Aircraft's discussion apm 2.5 locks servos and spirals to crash randomly in loiter and rtl -"Hi - yout wrote this "The only variables that changed between successful tests and crashes were the plugging in of the pan tilt servos and the addition of a fpv camera (which was not connected in the first crash, but in the second)."
Where…"
Stephen Gloor commented on Bill Bonney's blog post New Taranis Transmitter from Fr-Sky with OpenTx firmware"I will be buying one. It is everything the 9XR should have been and a bit more including the acknowledgement of the firmare used.
I can't wait to get one - the extra 3 postion switches will be really handy. "
Stephen Gloor replied to Jean Taeymans's discussion Starting with ArduPlane and a few questions"I would actually like to have an explanation of how to enter these parameters. The manual is a little vague on this point. I was after the setting to set the channel for enabling geofence. When I looked through the advanced…"
Karthik replied to Stephen Gloor's discussion Arduplane 2.7 RTL and AUTO has zero throttle in the group ArduPlane User Group"Hi Folks,
I am also facing the same problem as stephen, but as u guys said, the throttle wont work on the ground so i will take the bird airborne and check. Another thing is where should i change my RTL altitude, my default altitude in the way…"
Stephen Gloor replied to Ken Gaines's discussion Newbie here having BIG TROUBLE with APM 2.5 in E382-LR"Hi Ken,
In your radio calibration did you select to reverse the throttle? If you didn't try reversing it.
And of course if reverse is selected try de-selecting it."
DeveloperKevin Hester replied to Stephen Gloor's discussion Another Noob Question in the group ArduPlane User Group
"Geofencing is awesome. Just go to the advanced parameter list (I forget the name in MP - the big list of all the parameters)"
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Another Noob Question
I am not sure where to enable this parameter FENCE_CHANNELI would like to set up Geo-Fencing however reading through the manual give no clue where to set this. I can see the other parameters OK however this one is not there in Mission Planner that I can find.Can someone assist?See More
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