Gyro Pitch Problems - What am I doing wrong?

Hello all.

 

With the spring on the way and Hobby King finally sending me all the additional parts needed, I have begun my quad copter build along with my son. My intent of the project was to share with him my love of R/C. (and an excuse to build something pretty cool).  I am currently stuck with a problem.  My gyro pitch sensor is all over the place regardless that the APM & Oilpan unit are stationary..  3690859766?profile=original

 

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? Or is this normal.  Mind you these boards have never been in the air yet and I believe that I did a decent job soldering the pins.

 

Things I have tried:

  1. resoldering the pins and verifying the connection
  2. initializing the eeprom at least 50-75 times
  3. tired NG & Pirates code
  4. Different computers along with reinstalling v1 and v1.22 of the configurator.

 

Am I doing something wrong? or could this be a hardware issue?  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

 

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  • Hi David.

    I had a similar issue a couple of weeks ago where I suspected that my gyro was faulty (See discussion here: http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/imu-broken-xygyro-only-gives?xg_s....

    In the end I contacted DIYDrones store support, got a RMA and sent it back. They verified that it indeed was a faulty gyro so now i´m waiting for a replacement unit.

    My advice is to upload the ArduPilot-code to the APM and run the IMU-test (from CLI) and see the values the test produce. The store support they will most likley want you to run this test, so it will not be a waste of time to do it.
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