All Blog Posts Tagged 'Power' (7)


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DEVEL: Power distribution development

Development: New power distribution board

Some of you might already seen this board on Open-source ESC development post several days ago and some not. As…

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Added by Jani Hirvinen on August 23, 2012 at 8:10am — 26 Comments


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jDrones News: jD-IOBoard goes MAVLink

jDrones NEWS: IOBoard goes MAVLink 1.0

Time has come to make another exciting release. New software has been released for our mini IOBoard. With this software you are not anymore depending on static flashes, blinks and other patterns.

We made blog post about basic jD-IOBoard few weeks ago and you can read…

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Added by Jani Hirvinen on July 31, 2012 at 6:00am — 71 Comments

Motor direction correction and APM2 power up for a South Carolina Arducopter

 

After reading several blog posts and discussions about folk having startup issues with ESCs, APM2s, etc, I thought it prudent to build a simple servo tester to allow ESC checks sans APM functionality. The new issue of Make Magazine, #31 (I did a discussion post last week after the mailman delivered it) has a…

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Added by R. D. Starwalt on July 18, 2012 at 7:35pm — 7 Comments

Endurance, Range and Speed

I've been spending a lot of time over the last few weeks trying to figure out the optimum battery, motor and prop configurations in my skyfun to provide the maximum range and endurance options. Operating on a limited budget, I've been trying to avoid trial and error and make the right choices based on specs.



This is not easy but I've settled on a lower kv motor than many have chosen,…

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Added by Toby Mills on July 10, 2011 at 5:00am — 18 Comments

Laser Powered Quadrotor Sets New Aviation Record



From Xconomy: "A couple of startup companies set a world aviation record last night.


But they were pretty low-key about it. As I walked into the Future of Flight Aviation Center in Mukilteo, WA, a half hour north of Seattle, I saw little activity. It was after hours, and the…
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Added by Shannon Morrisey on October 28, 2010 at 5:30pm — 10 Comments


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ArduCopter power distribution PCB for Quad setup







First set of proto distribution PCB's are out from manufacturing company and ArduCopter core team around world are waiting to receive

their packets for proto testing.



Ok then how to build it and connect it to your electronics??



First users need to put some… Continue

Added by Jani Hirvinen on June 13, 2010 at 4:30am — 5 Comments

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