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Mag orientation and offsets

Posted by Al Ros on May 8, 2011 at 9:02am

Hi

 

Thanks to Jason and DIY drones / ardupilot community for creating all this for us!

 

I have been fooling around with latest arducopter 2 beta 1. So far everything has gone very smoothly

 

Quick question. where do we define how our magnetometer is mounted? also How do we perform the mag offset using this code? or are these determined automatically in the code?

 

Thanks

Al

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  • Andrew Bailey May 8, 2011 at 3:31pm
    Is the Sparkfun mag supported in the new code?
  • Clément May 8, 2011 at 12:33pm

    Hi,

    The mag offsets are determined automatically in the code.

    However, you still have to modify a #define in the code to tell how your mag is mounted.The default position is the one described in the wiki so if yours is like that, you can use the firmware provided by the APM Mission Planner with no modification.

    Otherwise, if your mag is mounted differently, you will have to download the code, modify APM_Config.h as explained in the wiki, and build your own firmware.

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