I’m moving all electronics from my Arducopter frame onto a F450 Flamewheel. I have JDrones 20A ESCs that have built-in BECs. The Arducopter’s PDB combines all four 5v power feeds into one and all signal wires into four single plugs that connect to my
Read more…I've had my Phantom for 3 weeks now. I've been noticing that instead of holding steady when I'm not touching the controls it will circle in about a 15' diameter area. I also had it run away from me one day not long after take off. I crashed it and wa
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Today I tried to fly a small Cessna 182 with pixhawk and everything seemed fine until I activated the FBWA mode. I started flying manually and take off with difficulty because it is a little heavy, but when I thought was stabilized
Just saw this http://www.slrlounge.com/sony-officially-announces-new-qx1-e-mount-module/ and wondered if it will work for a light weight camera.
Read more…Anyone have experience with a relatively long (~20 ft) restraining tether that will keep light tension on the line to minimize risk of tangling in the props, with enough cord strength to restrain a 44 lb octocopter should it decide to wander during p
Read more…I updated my MinumOSD firmware to the 2.4r726 , and updated the config software also to 2.3.2 r727
I like what I see, but I'm not receiving data, battery show .00, and in mission planner has all the right data, using separate telem ports on pixhawks,
I have moved to telemetry over openlrs. I have it working great to droidplanner on my phone at the groundstation. But I cannot get my previously great working minimosd to work anymore. I had to modify the apm serial baud rate to 19200 for the openlrs
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I'm trying to figure out what caused a rather beautiful crash yesterday--if such a thing exists--of a custom built heavy-lift hexacopter that has had several weeks of problem free flight time. It's running a Pixhawk with ArduCopter 3.1.5 Hexa
Read more…hey i have a problem with my copter, i recently bought a new board but it seems to have a fatal flaw
it will not correct yaw!!!!
when take off the copter simply rotates in whatever direction it feels.
it works fine with manual input and will rotate fin
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I have UHF for my RC and 1.2Ghz for my video on a Bixler.
Do harmonics only affect higher frequencies?
So my video signal wont interfere with my RC - but my RC might interfere with my video?
Thanks so much!
Read more…I have a Y6B, now am looking to build a X4, maybe X8 later on (there is no replacement for displacement as they say), but for now an X4 with high quality motors and props is what I'm looking at.
This build will be more for long flight times and reliab
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I am trying to pull of some heavy image processing on board quadrotor in order to enable the quadrotor to navigate autonomously.
I am sending commands to the quadrotor through droneapi by generating a mavlink message using the message factory. W
Read more…I'm sure I have had this problem a while back, but can't recall if it was a software bug or something else.
Anyhow, after updating Mission Planner to the latest update (1.3.9) it hangs if I perform a manual "CHECK FOR UPDATE" and if I load the INITIAL
Read more…Helo to everyone.
My first and heavy scratch from long time ago.
F450 APM2.6 gps+compass 3DR motor DT700 exc afro 4500 mAH {almost new and fulling charged} with gopro+guimbal
I use this drone almost every day. maybe 100 flight with it
Today I did a missi
Read more…We see a lot of assumptions out there about props etc, but very hard to find hard evidence and factual data. The data I have been searching for over the last 6 months is to find proof whether Carbon Fiber props are really so much better than plastic,
Read more…After a friend of mine that I've been working for experienced a software failure in his DJI branded octocopter (which is worth more than my car btw), DJI customer support had been giving him the grief by refusing to analyze his log data because the f
Read more…I am getting very short flights on my recently built quad with a Pixhawk. I am using 3s 5100 MAH 35C (fairly new) packs. The failsafe is left at the 10.4 voltage level set as the trip point to go into failsafe. in flight with the full electronic loa
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any idea ?
thanks
Thomas
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