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Pixhawk battery startup issue

When connected to mission planner by usb my hexacopter tests fine, I can even start it up using the radio. When I disconnect from mission planner and go out to fly the drone gets gps lock the light on the Pixhawk fc starts flashing yellow. I have bee

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RC delay to PWM output

Does anybody know why there is a ~100ms delay between receiving a RC command and when the motors begin to respond?

I put a logic analyzer on my RC channel 2, which is pitch, and on the PWM outputs of each of the 4 motors.  just to be clear, this is be

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Drone crashing

my drone is toppling to one side and crashing instead of hovering. i have a feeling that one motor is rotating at a lesser RPM compared to the others. How do I check the RPM of each motor? I know a laser tachometer can be used but i don't have one. C

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Number of channels

I am operating the 433 MHz radios at a narrower range ~2MHz.

 I was wondering what was the right way to choose the number of channels based on frequency width of transmission

 Thanks 

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Motor burned out. Frame size??

Hi all, 

I recently bought a custom hexacopter, made of carbon and size 800mm. It flied well 6 or 7 times.

Today I was flying in Loiter (with Pixhawk) and suddenly saw some smoke and the hexa began to go down. When I reached the place I saw one motor b

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Overpowered hexacopter

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to catch up with this HUGE learn curve for drones and ardupilot complexity.

My hexacopter is flying very well in LOITER and ALT HOLD, but so far, checking the logs it looks like it is overpowered.

I think it is good that the hexa

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Starting a mission

This is probably a very stupid question, but here it goes:

How do I start a mission in mission planner? Do I need to arm the copter myself? Do I need to set the drone to auto mode for the mission to start?

All the guides explain how to plan the mission

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