Okay so we had a crash.. well it dropped out of the sky and landed on the GPS structure. The casing was sound replaced the bent and broken parts (GPS mount, two blades). I broke the bird down and started from scratch and the sequence of spinning (starting clockwise from 1 to 6 is correct). Did the walk through set up again on the newest version of Mission Planner and the bird just wants to spin clockwise upon takeoff. I can put in Alt hold and it stays at Alt but still spins.
1. Do I have a bad GPS?
2. Do I have a bad APM 2.6?
3. When I broke it all down did i screw something up?
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Did you get your bird flying again? i am having the same problem. I have an APM 2.6 and after a decent crash i had to replace a motor and an arm and now my copter just spins when i give it throttle and it comes off the ground. I have the 3DR GPS w/ internal compass and it seems like it is functioning correctly. when i connect to the Mission Planner and move the bird around i can see all of the attitude controls moving accordingly. Including the compass. So my natural thought is that i managed to damage the IMU in the APM. Is there any kind of a test that will check its health?
Yep got her up and running again, I swapped ended up breaking it all down, checked all the leads, solders and upload with an older version of mission control and it worked. must have had a ghost or it just wanted some TLC!
Just want to follow up. I got my problem resolved. Backwards rotors. Doh!
Good to hear you sorted it out. I may have to change my title text to 'flipping and spinning'...
Which bullet would you say was the closest to your solution?
-=Doug
Motor direction incorrect + Incorrect propellers.
Is your compass declination set correctly? Maybe try running compassmot and see what your interference value is too.
Replaced the external compass and it still has the same wildly fast clockwise spin. Anyone got anymore idea of what to do?
thanks