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..
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:
- resoldering the pins and verifying the connection
- initializing the eeprom at least 50-75 times
- tired NG & Pirates code
- 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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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.