low throttle stability issues

Hi Folks

I am used to my mikrokopter quad spining the motors up when armed to the point of enough rotation to stabilize quad but not enough to lift off the ground.

On my arducopter - the motors do not spin up at all once armed.

I have had a few minor mishaps close to the ground and when testing alt hold (that were all my fault) but related to the fact that you can completely stop the motors in the air if you accidently lower throttle too much. if the motors keep spinning at min throttle at a point of stabilization like the MK then at least when the quad falls, it falls more level rather than falling at an odd angle

is there a variable in the code that would allow me to set and adjust a min throttle level when armed so I can have the ardu mimick my MK

Also ican I manually define the "hover throttle" in code rather than with flipping channel 7

Thanks

Hover throttle is set automatically with any Alt hold enabled mode.

I really like the low throttle cut out. It's saved a lot of pain during crashes. It's also a real pain to disarm the motors when a dog runs up to you in the park and you have to set it down quickly. Among many other reasons.

When in the air, if you don't go completely to neutral, the engines wont cut out. I've had zero issues flying this way for 5 months.

If you want to change it, see the motors_quad.pde. look for

   // Send commands to motors
        if(g.rc_3.servo_out > 0){
                APM_RC.OutputCh(CH_1, motor_out[CH_1]);

                APM_RC.OutputCh(CH_2, motor_out[CH_2]);

                APM_RC.OutputCh(CH_3, motor_out[CH_3]);

                APM_RC.OutputCh(CH_4, motor_out[CH_4]);

                // InstantPWM

                APM_RC.Force_Out0_Out1();

                APM_RC.Force_Out2_Out3();

        }else{

                APM_RC.OutputCh(CH_1, g.rc_3.radio_min);

                APM_RC.OutputCh(CH_2, g.rc_3.radio_min);

                APM_RC.OutputCh(CH_3, g.rc_3.radio_min);

                APM_RC.OutputCh(CH_4, g.rc_3.radio_min);

        }

Change to:

   // Send commands to motors
        APM_RC.OutputCh(CH_1, motor_out[CH_1]);
        APM_RC.OutputCh(CH_2, motor_out[CH_2]);

        APM_RC.OutputCh(CH_3, motor_out[CH_3]);

        APM_RC.OutputCh(CH_4, motor_out[CH_4]);

        // InstantPWM

        APM_RC.Force_Out0_Out1();

        APM_RC.Force_Out2_Out3();

Jason

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Sebastian Gralla May 24, 2011 at 1:18pm

yes, MIN_Throttle is the variable name, I'm not familiar with ACM code, but i think you could change it to, let's say 1200 and you'll be fine.

refer to jason, he's the code master ;)

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Jason Short May 24, 2011 at 1:14pm

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