Posted by Sergio Vial on February 28, 2015 at 5:26am
I have the Pixhawk AP with power module. The problem is that the Power Module shows a extrange behavior, every time I connect it, shows in the Misiion Planner and the OSD (Minim OSD) the correct voltage (12,5 to 12,6 V on a 3S LiPo batt), but once you begin to use the battery, the voltage showed a sudden drop that provokes all alerts to engage, and finnally PIxhawk enters in fail safe, even though the watt metter clearly shows a healthy battery with more than 11,5 V sustained under load. I already made all the power module calibrations that offer APM and Mission Planner, but nothing appear to fix, what can I do?
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Early this month the pixhawk started giving readings of 14V (alarming because we are using a 3S battery). I used the power module "other" option to re-calibrate at the measured voltage but was seeing similar results when capturing the log as above.
After similar results I bought a power module from wasooo to see if the results would differ but they did not and this module did not produce a log of the current.
The Vcc is fine to the pixhawk under the load as referenced in the wiki:
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Here is what the voltage looks like
Both.
The 3DR module was working correctly in February as shown here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQFNICnsTk0
Early this month the pixhawk started giving readings of 14V (alarming because we are using a 3S battery). I used the power module "other" option to re-calibrate at the measured voltage but was seeing similar results when capturing the log as above.
After similar results I bought a power module from wasooo to see if the results would differ but they did not and this module did not produce a log of the current.
The Vcc is fine to the pixhawk under the load as referenced in the wiki:
http://copter.ardupilot.com/wiki/common-diagnosing-problems-using-l...
However, there is no common diagnosis for the "Battery Issues" log and I would like to know if this is typical.
Thanks,
Louis