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Shorter Flight Time with Arducopter.

Posted by yovio on February 25, 2012 at 5:25am

Hi,

I just receive APM2 few days ago and I put it into my existing FyeTech frame. It fly relativelly stable in Stable mode.

The only problem that I have curentlly is, I can only achieve 6 mins flying time with APM2.

Previouslly using HobbyKing quad controller and I flashed with KKMulticopter 4.7, I manage to achieve 8 mins easily.

There is no different in configuration, meaning, I use same frame, esc, motors, props, same frame orientation (X mode), only RX that is different. With KKMulticopter I use FrSky Rx, and with APM2 I use Turnigy 9x Rx. The TX is the same TX.

I just hovering with both controller.

Why the different of battery consumption is quite big? Does it mean APM2 consume more power? Or is the algorithm in APM2 not as efficent to control the motors?

 

Cheers,

 

Yovi

 

 

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  • Jan Schermer February 26, 2012 at 11:56am

    I have a different experience - on my first quad, switching from Multiwii to AC2 increased my hover time from 8 to 14 minutes easily. I was really surprised by this. I guess it depends how tuned it is - if it constantly fights to stay in place it will be much less efficient than a smooth hover.

  • yovio February 25, 2012 at 5:33am

    As additional information, I use Arducopter 2.4.1.

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