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Battery monitoring with APM Planner 2

Hi!

I'm setting up an Erle-Copter & running APM Planner 2 on Ubuntu 16.04. I want to monitor my battery voltage with APM Planner 2.

From the flight data screen, I can see the percentage of battery left, but as I don't know after what percentage I risk

Started by Lauren T.

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Stop one motor faster than other motor in quadcopter

dear my friends

I have a quadcopter and when I disarm motors one of them stop faster than others. I think there is a mechanical problem with it. Am I right?

please help me. I truely appreciate it.

thank you so much.

Started by jhon

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TopXGUn launch RTK equipment for industrial drone

Hello, everybody, I am Linda from TopXGun shanghai, recently TopXGun launch RTK equipment for industrial drone, detailed information for your refer.

Mobile Base Station: which is installed on ground
1.Powerful Data Link
The differential system adopts

Started by TopXgun Linda

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Battery failsafe not triggering

Hi,

I am an experienced flyer but this has me stumped, maybe one of you guys can help. The battery failsafe will not trigger even though the aircraft battery voltage drops to 1V less then the failsafe voltage while in flight. FS is enabled and set to

Started by Alex

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Compass heading not turning as much as plane

Hi

I have a problem with the external compass on my APM 2.6, mounted in a plane. I have been flying in Northern Europe without any problems, and have now brought my plane to Greenland. After having changed to the correct magnetic declination and calib

Started by Boas61

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250 Quad with Pixfalcon help

Hi,

I converted my ZMR250 from a Naze 32 to a Pixfalcon. I got everything setup and vibrations looks fine.

I then did a auto-tune on the Roll axis and would like to know if it is normal for a small quad or should I be concerned with the low values.

Stab

Started by Henry Scheun

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LM1117 3.3 outputs 0.65 V

I have a small circuit with an ESP8266, a DS18B20 (here is the ds18b20 datesheet) temperature sensor and a DHT22. I prototyped everything on a breadboard, and it worked fine. I then moved to soldering everything. My input Vcc is 5v, so I am using it

Started by nanawhite107

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HELP! Flip32

Hello everybody! I'm a beginner and need help!!!!For the past couple of months I've been building a quadcopter, I'm trying to configure my flight controller - flip 32 - using both clean flight and beta flight, but I'm having some trouble.I have downl

Started by Zoe Diggs

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Computing the Attitude Percentage Error

Hello guys! I've been working on the accuracy and stability of the Pixhawk... and I've been wondering how it is to properly compute the percentage error of its flight... So I've been using the telemetry logs since I've only got to the SITL part... Ho

Started by Ronello Ninettu

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Bad gps module? bad apm board? GPS led not blinking

After changing the location (country) where I fly my quad copter I'm having trouble with it.

The gps led does not blink and mission planner says that I don't have gps 3d fix (either 2d fix)

I know it takes time to make your GPS work after long travel

Started by Jun kyung Bang

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Quad becomes unstable but only after a land waypoint then takeoff waypoint

I've searched for similar issues but haven't really been able to find anything even though this seems like a firmware bug.

I've created a waypoint mission like this with a land and takeoff sequence in the middle of the mission:

1. Takeoff

2. Waypoint 1

3

Started by Jesper Andersen

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Attitude Unpredictability on Gusty Days

Hi all,

I ran into an issue earlier this year when a gusty day pushed my FX-61 (elevon flying wing) into a nosedive and fatal crash. Happily only the styrofoam was damaged, so I built a new one with the guts from that which crashed. I made a few fli

Started by Christian John

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My Ranger 757-3 build with Navio2

Finally I've got all systems working. The combination of the telemetry modem and GPS module gave me a lot of headaches. The solution proved to be a separate UBEC for the modem and moving that UBEC as far away from the other electronics as possible.

Th

Started by Anton Vanhoucke

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EKF logs

Hello!
I have done several loggings with my rover but none of them contain EKF data when converting to .mat file.
Below is a screenshot where it says that AHRS data logging should be enabled. My question is how to enable logging of AHRS data in order

Started by Marco Suther

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EKF-Check: Bad Variance detected: Help analyzing log file?

Hello everyone,

I have a problem with my Ardupilot 2.6 Quadcopter, basically ever since I built it. Sometimes, the EKF Failsafe triggers. This happened once every few flights, but after I attached a camera and a gimbal, this happens basically every fl

Started by Jan Blumenkamp

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How to connect DJI S900 rotors to Pixhawk?

Hello!

I'm a newbie in the drone world. I've bought a DJI S900 and a Pixhawk and everything went well up to a point. As I don't want to mess up anything, I want to make sure what is the correct way to connect the rotors of the drone to Pixhawk.

In the

Started by Paul Razvan Berg

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Custom Built HexaCopter and Solar Powered Autonomous Recharging System- Step by Step Details

Decided to build a hexacopter that will have maximum lift weight of its class, flight time (optimal goal) and room to mount almost every sensor/accessory for field testing. So we modified a tarot frame to meet our needs. Next, we will be building an

Started by UAV Skies

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Power module and USB Pixhawk

Hello!

I am using Pixhawk in order to control my rover. If I have plugged in the power module and the USB cable into Pixhawk, will it cause any damage to Pixhawk?

Thank you!

Started by Marco Suther

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Journey to just "end up" with a boring H Quad...

So I'm on version 5 of my drone. First was a simple s500 quad that flew great, but after a crash developed a really bad vibration that I couldn't ever fix. So bought a hex kit, to make into a fully automated beer delivery drone. It actually flew r

Started by Seth Miller

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Obstacle avoidance - Quadcopter

Hello everyone,

I have a very fundamental question.

I'm trying to implement obstacle avoidance using the MaxBotic sensors.

I have the option of using either a PixHawk or an ArduCopter. I have both.

Following this link:

http://ardupilot.org/copter/docs/com

Started by 3DR_Fan

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Battery monitoring with APM Planner 2

Stop one motor faster than other motor in quadcopter

TopXGUn launch RTK equipment for industrial drone

Battery failsafe not triggering

Compass heading not turning as much as plane

250 Quad with Pixfalcon help

LM1117 3.3 outputs 0.65 V

HELP! Flip32

Computing the Attitude Percentage Error

Bad gps module? bad apm board? GPS led not blinking

Quad becomes unstable but only after a land waypoint then takeoff waypoint

Attitude Unpredictability on Gusty Days

My Ranger 757-3 build with Navio2

EKF logs

EKF-Check: Bad Variance detected: Help analyzing log file?

How to connect DJI S900 rotors to Pixhawk?

Custom Built HexaCopter and Solar Powered Autonomous Recharging System- Step by Step Details

Power module and USB Pixhawk

Journey to just "end up" with a boring H Quad...

Obstacle avoidance - Quadcopter

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