I have this unit and am getting less than 5 minute flight time until warning comes on. 85% Battery remaining after flight.
Total Weight: 2750g
Batt: Multistar 10000mah 4S 14.7V 10C
• Tarot 650 Sport frame with hood and electric retracts
• Pixhawk S
I am using Pixhawk on a fix wing airplane and very often I don't empty the battery in a single flight. The problem is if I restart the plane, the battery percent meter will start from 100% again.
Since I use normal batteries and no smart batteries lik
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I am working on Quadcopter with Px4 board and trying to mount 2 I2C Sonar sensors on my Drone for obstacle avoidance
I follow this article to use 01 Maxbotix Sonar sensor:
http://copter.ardupilot.com/wiki/common-rangefinder-maxbotixi2c/
Is th
Read more…Hi guys, I have not followed the last release, so I got very upset when I updated my old, steady 3.2.1 Octa-Quad multirotor with the new 3.3.2. Of course I do realize that my system is kind of a mess, because I am using that multirotor for research a
Read more…I have a LI-24 Lipo/LiFe Charger
http://www.rcplanet.com/DuraTrax_Li_24_2S_4S_LiPo_LiFe_AC_Balancing_Charge_p/dtxp4620.htm
and 3 Zippy 1000 20C Series 2 Cell 7.4 volts batteries which were bought to use on FPV goggles
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/
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I am currently having a problem with an RFD900 Radio. The connection is not always good at startup and the loading of parameters is slow.
Is there a way to disable the "loading params" process on mission planner? Is there a problem with just can
Read more…I have used mission Planner on my sony and Apm planner on Mac. The main difference is I cannot get to the full parameter list on the Mac. I am probably missing it. I would prefer to use the Mac, is there a full list somewhere so I can check SR settin
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I am making a quadrocopter (APM2.6) with self control with ability to fly witout remote control.
I am using a Raspberry Pi and mavproxy to make it.
It works good except one thing. To start the fly, I have to short press accelleration on the
r
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I have been using the 3DR x8 coupled with a GoPro 4 Black and Pix4D to do topographic surveys for over a year now. While I have had great success with this platform, I have been having one issue that I just can't seem to find a
Read more…How are Deagonfly getting publicity in the commercial UAS world for this?????? [url]http://copter.ardupilot.com/wiki/common-ads-b-reciever/[/url] It does annoy me when a community of developers work hard to develop something and some company uses it
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I have a project, as indicated above, to track a high altitude object.
It appears to be feasible to use a gimbal inverted and set the ROI altitude to a large value. I have not yet discovered what the variable range allows. Mission planner lets
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i down load the source code QGroundControl2.8.0 and want to build in Qtcreator5.5 platform, but the result show me as following:
Project ERROR: MAVLink folder does not exist at 'libs/mavlink/include/mavlink/v1.0'! Run 'git submodule init &&
Read more…I want to add a payload drop feature in my rc plane for which i need to know the bearing of the plane. I am using PIXHAWK autopilot. Can anybody tell me the variable already used in firmware which provides the bearing of the plane?
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I was just wondering if anyone knew when (or if) 3drobotics will have the pixhawk II for sale. I'm looking at buying a ap for my new quad, but if the II is on its way, I might wait a bit longer.
Thanks,
Ryan
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I need your help please, I want make a test of mi pixhawk in the terminal of mission planner but i can't. when I click above connect should open the com like this.but only gets this
can anyone help me please? what am i doing wrong?
In the first instance I was having erratic flying with my Quanum Nova (CX-20) and I determined to redo the Mission Planner procedure (16 steps)
I had done this earlier successfully but last week I had a crackup and I was required to replace the top an
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Could somebody please advise what would be the best developer's platform for high end R&D purposes, such as autonomous flying, running ROS packages, multi vehicle testing? I am currently considering either 3DR Solo or DJI Matrice 100. Money is no
Read more…After updating from 1.3.32 (worked well) to the new version 1.3.34, Mission Planner was no more able to connect to the internet... satellite data, firmware updates and software updates... etc.
It was quite easy to find out that the Firewall of the Nor
Read more…Not sure where to post this as I have seen "antenna tracker" in a few different places.
I would like to reuse a piece of equipment that has steppers to move the pan and tilt axis. I have had no luck in finding antenna tracker electronics that would d
Read more…We have a Blade 350 qx2 and we had the body off of it. Now when we try and power it up we get a yellow blinking light with a flat sounding tone. The red and blue light blink on the main board and then the blue light goes out and the red light stays o
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