"Yes, I have connected lipo to the ESCs and USB to APM in MP. Recalibrated radio channels and it worked. When "completed" calibration, all 4 ESCs made a sound then I disconnected USB cable.
As for stability, I did a quick hoover in the…"
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APM 2.5 tilt on lift off, artificial horizon?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Zafer Turkeli Feb 5. 5 Replies 0 Likes
Hi there,As we are struggling to get our hexa of the ground, the first test flight was no succes. As we tried to take off it banked to the left en never got off the ground.We were thinking it might…Continue
Tags: esc, calibration, tilting, horizon, 2.5
Hi, arducopter 2.5 and walkera 2801
Started this discussion. Last reply by james sowell Oct 18, 2012. 7 Replies 0 Likes
Hi everyone, I'm new on this forum and like to introduce myself.My name is Thom en i live in holland. I am building a hexacopter with my associate using the ardupilot 2.5.However we are having some…Continue
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Peter Meister replied to Thom V's discussion APM 2.5 tilt on lift off, artificial horizon?"Guys,
I have the tilt as well, I recently upgraded to 2.9.1 from 2.8.1 and my tricopters are all showing a tilt after accell calibration. You can correct the horizon, but the tilt seems to require trim correction in the radio. I adjusted my trims…"
Thom V replied to Thom V's discussion APM 2.5 tilt on lift off, artificial horizon?"Oh cool. you got the lipo connected to the esc's? not the APM i geuss?
ill try that too....thanks.
still dont understand the artificial horizon being tilted though!"
Zafer Turkeli replied to Thom V's discussion APM 2.5 tilt on lift off, artificial horizon?"I just did radio calibration with USB kablo and LIPO together. Now quad's motor are alive......."
Zafer Turkeli replied to Thom V's discussion APM 2.5 tilt on lift off, artificial horizon?""Now everything put back together in MP the artificial horizon is tilted ( it didn't before first flight and the hexa is flat on the floor). it does move when we move the hexa.
We can't figure out what the problem is.
After fitting…"
Thom V posted a discussionAPM 2.5 tilt on lift off, artificial horizon?
Hi there,As we are struggling to get our hexa of the ground, the first test flight was no succes. As we tried to take off it banked to the left en never got off the ground.We were thinking it might be one of the esc's so we got an ubec and seperate battary to power the APM 2.5 and receiver.Now everything put back together in MP the artificial horizon is tilted ( it didn't before first flight and the hexa is flat on the floor). it does move when we move the hexa.We can't figure out what the…See More
Thom V replied to Thom V's discussion Hi, arducopter 2.5 and walkera 2801"James, thanks you for the idea, we have reversed the thottle, no response.
I'm afriad the probllem is in the outputs of the ardupilot board. in mission planner we see no results in outputs.
We haves esc's with brown, red and orange cables…"
james sowell replied to Thom V's discussion Hi, arducopter 2.5 and walkera 2801"and make shure you take the props off !"
james sowell replied to Thom V's discussion Hi, arducopter 2.5 and walkera 2801"have you tried reversing the throttle?"
Thom V replied to Thom V's discussion Hi, arducopter 2.5 and walkera 2801"thank James for your replies.
We did actually do those things you suggested.
The problem is that we can get into mission planner, calibrate the tx, we get good measures from the gyros en (outside) we get gps fix, but when we hit the throttle the…"
james sowell replied to Thom V's discussion Hi, arducopter 2.5 and walkera 2801"http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/AC2_First ; 2 make shure you have the right com port and baud rate"
james sowell replied to Thom V's discussion Hi, arducopter 2.5 and walkera 2801"i can try to help did you bind the rx to tx? "
Thom V posted a discussionHi, arducopter 2.5 and walkera 2801
Hi everyone, I'm new on this forum and like to introduce myself.My name is Thom en i live in holland. I am building a hexacopter with my associate using the ardupilot 2.5.However we are having some difficulties getting it working. We use the walkera 2801 and they seem not to recognize eachother. the ardupilot keeps flashing the red light, doesnt turn bleu.Is this a well known problem? or are we doing something completely wrong?if anyone has any suggestions they are more then welcome to share.See More
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