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So, I have a Spektrum DX7 radio talking to a Spektrum satellite receiver, which is plugged directly into my Pixhawk. How can I get MinimOSD's RSSI field to show me how well the DX7's signal is being recieved? I see the field, but it h
Read more…I have connected the Apm power module with 6S batt, and it works great.
Does anybody have more experience with it?
Read more…I have some of the old ESC's shipped by 3dRobotics. It does not have the SimonK firmware. I was wondering if I can flash it with the SiminK firmware. If yes then what setting do we use to build the firmware. By “setting”, I mean what is this type
Read more…I'm trying to debug my minimosd thats being massively affected by my single battery setup. Everything looks great until I arm my quad. Usually I loose the OSD right then, then as I power up the throttle I get big glitches till I loose the video feed
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I have Favourite Sky III 30AX4 4 in 1 ESC. I'm calibrating the ESC like this;
1. I put radio on, I set full throttle
2. I power up Pixhawk and wait for musical startup tone of Pixhawk and then disconnect the battery
3. I reconnect battery and I hear
Read more…My custom hexacopter is flying just fine. I am running a pixhawk with 3.1.5. However, when I run the auto analysis of the datalog, I get a VCC warning (see pic). When check the "Power Issues" graph (see pic), the board voltage is between 825 mA and 1
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I currently use the new Terrain function in ArduPlane a lot. However most of the time I'm not connected over MavLink to my laptop and fly FPV around. Now to get the terrain data you either have to be connected to MissonPlaner or upload a mission wi
Read more…Today i was flying over sea, i did this 2 days prior without issues.I had a sudden decsend almost touching water, i tried full throttle and the quad still did not raise. Eventually i panic and just hit RTL, the quad looked like it stopped just above
Read more…My quad seems to be flying great until I flip it into loiter. As soon as I do that it takes a 90' turn and tilts about 45' and just keeps going that way on its way towards the ground till I flip back to stabilize. I recalibrated my compass but its st
Read more…Redoing my 3DR Quad, when I originally built it, I used the 850Kv Motors, and Neewer SimonK 30amp ESC's, But they were only rated for 3s Battery. I'm moving to a 880kv Motor, and a 40amp also Simonk ESC. 2s to 6s, I'd like to use a 4s Battery and the
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is it possible to switch between the pids for normal flight(fpv) and more aggressive flight for flip and rolls?
I want to switch from 2.5( normal) to 4.5 and final 6-8 for flips and rolls.
Is that possible to combine that with a new flight mode or w
Read more…i am planning to made a fpv plane with pixhawk.I wnat a good range. therefore i need 5-6 hours in the sky.
Which gives big flight endurance . Gas engines or electric motors.
PLEASE HELP ME
Read more…Hello people,
For my project I need a fully programmable RC quadcopter platform to test our own
control algorithm.
"Fully programmable" means that I need the drone to maintain upright position and
constant altitude, but I need to control how hard it tri
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While working with the folks at HeliFlight Center, we have discovered a potential issue with the Lemon Rx DSMX 8ch PPM receiver that can cause a "lockup" condition of the Pixhawk Autopilot.
A recent customer presented a multicopter "build" for troubl
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I have an issue with my hex. I cannot seem to get it to autotune when I want it to.Today, I tried to autotune it, assigned ch7 to autotune, assigned a 3pos switch on my taranis to ch 7, took off in stabilize, changed to alt hold, switch
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I came across this recently and didn't see anyone mention it, so I thought I'd post.
Looks like an X8 copter designed by JAVAD (a company that usually makes surveying equipment).
Things I like:
It has RTK GNSS capabilities.
It is an X8, for some motor/pr
Read more…I'm interested in replacing the stock Pixhawk piezo buzzer with something smaller but after a lot of time looking, I can't seem to find any specs on it. The schematics on the Pixhawk.org website show the buzzer's LT3469 driver circuitry but don't see
Read more…I was flying Arducopter 3.2 today with the ground station telemetry failsafe parameter enabled and set to RTL. It was hovering stably on guided mode and using a usb joystick when my ground station signal was lost then 5 seconds later the quadcopter s
Read more…Hi Guys.
I would appreciate if someone can explain me why many logs appear in my pixhawk dated 30/12/1979
Thank you
Read more…Having serious issues with the navigation on my plane.
Started with the default L1 nav params, have tried dozens of combinations without any real success. Plane flies beautifully in stab, FBW etc, just has issues when navigating.
Started with the inter
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