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
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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
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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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I'm trying to set a Pixhawk with dragonlink and Dx8 for adruplane. After connecting everything I realized the channels need to be remapped (Went to Full parameters list, then entered 3 for RCMAP pitch, 2 for roll, 1 for throttle and 4 for Yaw).
An
Read more…I can't seem to get my S100 to take pictures much faster than an expourse every two seconds or so. I'm using the "trigger by distance" method to trigger from the autopilot. I think I've disabled all the camera features that might slow down the camera
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First of all, I really want to say that 3dr is a great company, my first pixhawk was faulty after 1 week, they took care of everything even paying costs to send it over (which was a lot since i live in Europe) and even the possible import tax
Summary: Ardupilot 2.6, Mission Planner 1.3.9, last firmware, Mavlink connection, all worked as it should…few hours later, Mavlink won’t connect, uploads different firmware, tried older software - no good results, tried older firmware – Mavlink conne
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I have not flown my quad in couple weeks. I installed a new gimbal and went flying today..
The quad was very erratic. I even tried flying it with the gimbal completely plugged out and power off. Did not fly confident at all.
I noticed one of the
Read more…When I look at the tlog I see totally different maunders for the 3DR radio rssi than I see on the MP playback display. What’s the conversion formula to convert from mavlink rssi to percent? Most missions I see between 60 and 170 in the log but mostly
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Only after reading the page ArducamOSD I learned that I could not connect if minimOSD pixhawk was connected by the USB port. I did and after that the letters are blurred or not seen anything. I will have destroyed the osd ???
Thank you
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September 11th day yesterday on a flight with my mapping quadcopter with pixhawk mapping and arducopter 3.1.5.
the quadcopter at 2 minutes into the mapping mission began to spin like crazy
continued to try to regain control passing quadcopter m
I want to connect my landing gear servos to apm.please inform me how to pin my wires to apm.
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