"BAD compass health"

andi azhar February 19, 2016 at 7:40am

did u fix it?

FRANCIS NELSON HENDERSON July 4, 2014 at 12:26pm

I too had "Bad Compass Health" until I moved the telemetry wires away from running along the top of my Pixhawk. Any wire carrying electric current produces a magnetic field circling it. The more electric current the more intense is the magnetic field. Electric Motor wiring is the worst, however other lessor current carrying wires can also affect the compass if close enough to the sensor.

Brandon Ruys > FRANCIS NELSON HENDERSON June 14, 2015 at 5:03am

I verified that my 3.3 regulator wasn't blown, checked all the hardware, etc.

I did the calibration outdoors many times, away from any interference, to no resolve, no cell phone in my pocket, nothing to interfere. I checked and rechecked my wires, mounted on a mast, twisted the power wires, everything. I am using an APM 2.6 on a DJI F550 with Spektrum AR8000/DX8 setup.

Here is the fix I used, FINALLY after hours of fighting this frustrating problem.

I redid the entire Mission Planner wizard, but the difference this time that seemed to work was,

first, I uploaded the firmware to the APM 2.6 for the ArduRover, and then back to the ArduCopter. This was after

trying to hard reset the APM 2.6 through the CLI, which did not work, as all I ever saw in the Terminal

window was gibberish.

Maybe there was some setting in the Mission Planner that was inconsistent with what the compass was telling it?

I don't know for sure, but it worked.

Good luck to anyone that encounters this issue, I hope this fix helps a few guys out there.

Fringe March 16, 2014 at 12:42pm

Mee too, on APM 2.5 I have double and triple checked that I properly cut connection between pads on APM to disable on board compass. I can see the board all the way through so I think the jumper is cut. However now I see 'bad compass health' on mission planner and compass reading off 90 degrees. For some reason the on board compass on APM seems to still be working because I see copass movement on mission planner but when I move the ublox compass I see no movement. Any ideas?

Kelly Aldridge > Fringe March 29, 2014 at 5:22am

I have the EXACT same problem. off by 90 degrees and no change direction change when I move the external gps/compass. I do, however, have a GPS lock and it looks accurate. Any help would be appreciated.
- Marcus Wright > Kelly Aldridge April 7, 2014 at 4:15am
  
  Same here. What is up with this? It just suddenly started this behavior.
  - jjviton > Marcus Wright July 4, 2014 at 11:25am
    
    same for me.
    
    I can not calibrate the compass (no data appears on the Mission planer window of calibration) but I can see the compass movement in the Flight Data window.
    
    Even it is show bad compass health, seems it is working.
    
    Any idae?

Menno Hochstenbach February 26, 2014 at 2:38am

Me too, with version AC: 3.1.0 (build for Pixhawk) What version do you have?

Menno

Andersson Beccari > Menno Hochstenbach February 26, 2014 at 8:50am

Me too.... but I am with PX4
- Hercules > Andersson Beccari March 3, 2014 at 8:24am
  
  And me too on apm2.5.2 , any solution?

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