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Spectacular Tricopter Crash

Posted by Marc Puig on December 13, 2011 at 11:27am

This is what happens when the yaw tilt mechanism of the tricopter fails, or at least this is what I think that happened...

I don't know how but the linkage rod of the yaw tilt mechanism came off from the servo arm. I need pliers to do that! I can't do it with my bare hands. The servo noise is from the camera tilt.

Firmware: ArduCopter 2.0.55

yaw-problem.log

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Jason Short December 13, 2011 at 12:14pm

Wow, those Go Pros are rock solid aren't they!
Ellison Chan December 13, 2011 at 11:31am

More likely servo failure. I think the control arm popped off when the prop/tail hit the ground.