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Ardupilot mounted sideways of CG

Posted by Martin Schön on October 3, 2012 at 9:15am

Hello everyone,

looks like nobody else discussed this problem here before, so I'm asking the question:

I'm planning to mount my Ardupilot on a 1.8m wingspan flying wing, however i need the room around the CG for Cameras and batteries and stuff- Is it a problem if the Ardupilot is mounted about 20cm sideways from the Center of gravity? Does anybody have experience with that?

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  • Martin Schön October 5, 2012 at 2:17am

    Thank you for your help, the ardupilot is now mounted on the plane!

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    Dwgsparky October 3, 2012 at 9:37am

    Hi Martin

    I asked this before and I had some positive replies so I tried it on my 1.6m flying wing with the APM mounted about 150cms from the centreline and slightly behind the CG Everything worked OK but its a pain to update the APM with a cable for the firmware..

    eventualy my wing crashed (nothing to do with the APM , read pilot error!) and was destroyed, The APM survived undamaged despite a vertical dive at 60mph into the field from 200feet.

    . MkII is on the building board and I will keep the layout, works for me!  Good luck

    Dwgsparky

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    Graham Dyer October 3, 2012 at 9:34am

    No, as far as I know it can be mounted anywhere, mine certainly is not on the CG of the plane.

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