Nischal joshi August 13, 2015 at 11:37pm

Thank you for the quick reply scott. I am bit confused where does the gimbal wire go to apm still. Could you help me with this. And hows your apm performance regarding gps hold, loiter and mission cheers
- Scott Meese > Nischal joshi August 14, 2015 at 6:04pm
  
  With the gimbal control, you will have to 1. figure out which channel (s) you want to use on your radio, preferably sliders or knobs, and connect them to the appropriate input channel on apm. Output can be whichever output you choose. Once you have this connected you will have to go to mission planner and tell those channels what they are doing.
  2. Are you using a brushless or servo gimbal? Servo gimbal the apm may power them. Brushless gimbal will need to be connected to the proper power source, while the signal wire will plug in to the apm.
  3. If you are using an external controller but want to manually control pan/tilt/pitch, then connect signal wire between apm and controller.
  4. Or you can bypass apm altogether and plug directly in to your receiver. Which this is nice if you will run a separate camera radio such as the inspire.
  
  Have not gotten to try all the modes yet as the quad I am using this on was grossly in balanced so I had to tear it apart and start again. Ready to fly again so hopefully I will get a chance to fly this weekend.
  
  Hope this helps.
Nischal joshi August 13, 2015 at 11:08pm

Hi everyone i am new to the form and i have couple of question regarding this flight controller
1 i would like to know if this controller supports gimbal and where to connect the wiring,
2 is it safe to use both power module and esc with bec togeather?

Anyhelp would be appriciated thankyou
- Scott Meese > Nischal joshi August 13, 2015 at 11:22pm
  
  Hi Nischal. Welcome to the forums.
  1, I believe you can manually control your gimbal through this and any apm based flight control, but it won't do it automatically.
  2. I wouldn't risk it. Currently my flight control is powered by bec only. I would say one or the other, not both.
Pawel Misiak August 8, 2015 at 7:14am

loss of control, (1:10)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MwdL9...

YouTube
Cala July 26, 2015 at 9:34am

I like this board connectors, easy to find and looks more safe than the Pixhawk ones but this one is 8 bits.
Pawel Misiak July 25, 2015 at 1:49pm

Auto Tune:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0mrXfE0AFk
Edgar Scott July 22, 2015 at 11:45am

Scott Meese looks like you already figured it out but here is a nice diagram on the wiring, shows the compass and the compus IC socket. Below that is the pin outs
- Scott Meese > Edgar Scott July 22, 2015 at 9:22pm
  
  Thanks Edgar. Did you recently post those? I couldn't find anything online when I was wiring it up...
  - Edgar Scott > Scott Meese July 23, 2015 at 8:19am
    
    Yeah I just posted, I just noticed people were talking about it so thought I would post what I found, sorry for the late insertion to this thread but it may help others too. I sure would love it if 3DR would get into the smaller sized FCs too, I would surely pay more for better support and documentation from 3DR over these china unsupported products. Maybe one day.