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How many propellers can single Ardupilot Mega 2.5 + control ?

Posted by Aerobot on October 10, 2013 at 10:03am

Just wondering, how many propellers can a single Ardupilot Mega 2.5 + can control at a single time, wirelessly ? 

DYI Drones sells up to a Hexcopter. 

Looking at the datasheet of ATmega2560,"It has 54 digital input/output pins (of which 15 can be used as PWM outputs" ? So can it support up to 15 PWM Motors at once?  

I am not building a UAV. Just trying to build a test experiment for propellers. 

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  • Søren Kuula October 13, 2013 at 11:03am

    Hi, there seems to be 10 supported PWM output channels for APM2. Actaully on the board and in some documentation there seems to be 11, but number 9 (8 where zero based) has not PWM output implemented.

    APM2 cannot control propellers wirelessly. Well not without some extra hardware.

    Regards

    Soren

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