I have a 4000mAh 3c Turnigy Nano-tech Battery, and I am confused about what to put in the "Battery Failsafe (mAh)" setting. There is nothing mentioned in online wiki about the "mAh" setting - only the Voltage.
In the Voltage section I have put a cons
Read more…I want to fly drones, so I bought the iris. It didn't listen half the time and has crashed so much it looks like an IED hit it. I thought I'd learned so I bought a y6 diy kit. It just fell out of the sky with the walkera g 3d gimbal and smashed itsel
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I have a very weird problem with keeping my copter in one direction, but only if i add the external compass. I have to disconnect the I2C cable to avoid that. I calibrated both compasses several times but it seems to work only with my intern
Read more…Is it possible to bind two radio transmitters to one receiver?Example: bind radio-1 transmitter to receiver-A, also bind radio-2 to receiver-A. Control receiver-A with radio-1...turn off radio-1...turn on Radio-2...controll receiver-A with radio-2. W
Read more…Hi, I am an APM 2.6 user. I use this on my F450 quad. Last week one of my DYS 30A (SimonK) ESC went bad. ie: beeping continuously. I couldn't able to calibrate by any means. I've reflashed the firmware (TGY.hex) but still no use.
During the flights I'
Read more…I'm looking ro this community for introductory information on RC transmitters. I have a lot of simple questions.1 the RC controller and the RC transmitter can be separate items correct?By controller I am referring to the box with the switches and sti
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My SkyHero Y6 with APM 2.5 and the latest stable FW makes strange "knocking" sounds when in idle. There are none of these sounds when working at higher throttle.
I use the Tiger Motors MT2814-11 710 kv and Yuki cayenne 40A Opto ESC (simonK).
The
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I have been trying to get a tighter turn on my flying wing but for some reason the plane woun't bank more than 45.deg. eventhough the bank angle is set to 60.deg.
can anyone help me with the paramereters that need to be set for a flying wing
Read more…I am working on a 1.2m Quad with Pixhawk. First I had problems with the green Turnigy Multistar ESC, but after flashing SimonK they work very smooth and sensitive.
Now the problem: When increasing yaw over 50% the two slower rotating motors start to o
Read more…Does anyone have a parameter file for a DJI F450 flame wheel using 10" props and AC 3.15?
Read more…Hello all, this is my first post here but I've been reading for a while. I haven't been able to find any information on my exact setup as of yet but I am furiously searching because my APM arrived today in the mail. I have an IF4 quad copter and also
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First of all - it's a long read so thanks in advance.
I'm trying to improve the vibration in my quad and I have a few questions.
First some details: I'm using a Drotek 10DOF with a MPU9250 imu connected by i2c to a raspberry pi that samples the gyro
Read more…I've got the problem described below and maybe you could give me some hints where to look for possible causes.
Frame: Quadcopter (many successful flights before modifying the camera gimbal)
Hardware: APM 2.5
Firmware: ArduCopter V3.1.5
Problems:
- Random,
I recently installed and got to work APM Planner 2.0.14 on OpenSuSE 13.1.
When I start apmplanner2 me PC bogs down for about 2 minutes after the initial APM Planner splash screen is shown. It indicates 'Starting User Interface'
The terminal window at t
Read more…After a year of flying my Y6, I want to try Auto missions. The Arducopter instructions for how to do so date back to APM v1.x and I have 2.0.14 on the MAC.
I cannot get far as I cannot pick a home start point, or see anything on the right click men
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When I look at a flight log I have several values I don't know what they mean:
In the GPS section: 'VZ', 'T'
In Attitude: 'ErrorRP'
in CTUN; 'RdrOut'
Can someone explain me what they mean?
thx
andy
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I am building a new quadcopter but pixhawk fails to arm. Here is what I have done till now
1. Connected radio and esc to pixhawk.
2. connected a independent bec to output rails for power. Didn't connect pixhawk power module because I don't have the r
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My hexa crashed and I suspect that a propeller came loose. How to identify in the datalog or dataflash ?
Thank you
Read more…I use my telemetry to give me a battery percentage remaining update while flying. I have been flying with 4000mah packs and have it very dialed in so for when I need to land. I recently got 6600mah packs. Do I need to go into my battery tab in missio
Read more…I currently fly:
x4 quadcopter
FlySky FS-TH9X transmitter
Turnigy 9X reciver
3DR PPM multiplexer
3DR telemetry radio
3DR Pixhawk autopilot
ArduCopter V3.1.5
I have encountered and solved many problems, and now I finally feel relatively comfortable flying,
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