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Posted by Duffy on August 7, 2014 at 10:57am

Is it possible to add a second GPS to the pixhawk?

Only the CAN port can support the 5 pin cable

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- - F. C. Bearsch > Charles K Taylor August 8, 2014 at 10:13am
    
    Do you hav any more info on where to find and how to setup?
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Stephen Zidek August 7, 2014 at 5:29pm

What are the potential benefits of a second GPS? Better accuracy?
- Charles K Taylor > Stephen Zidek August 7, 2014 at 7:11pm
  
  Redundancy. The pixhawk will use which ever GPS is healthier.
Duffy August 7, 2014 at 2:05pm

Thanks both very much!
iskess August 7, 2014 at 11:10am

The 2nd GPS goes in the serial port. You need a 6 pin plug for both GPS on the pixhawk. You can buy just the 6 wire plugs and use the same cable. I got a bunch from digikey.
- Adam Kroll > iskess September 26, 2014 at 8:52am
  
  Hi iskess,
  
  Can you please post the digikey link for the cable.
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  - Duffy August 9, 2014 at 7:08am
    
    Hi Thomas,
    
    What exactly I am looking into doing in FULL parameters list to enable the 2nd GPS?
    
    Thanks
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      - Duffy August 10, 2014 at 3:59am
        
        Excuse my incompetence Thomas,
        
        a look through the difference parameters in FULL parameter list reveals nothing about the second GPS , GPS_TYPE2, is this available in a beta only? I am running 3.1.5,
        
        Is it possible to activate this?
        
        Thanks