I had built a new tarot 650 with a genuine pixhawk and today i went out to test waypoints. This is my second pixhawk rig and I have 3 other apm birds all of which hit they're wayponts on the money with no issues. I had tuned this thing very well.
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i have a small 250 size copter and it flies, except all modes which needs a baro.
Copter oscillates with alt hold +-1 meter and is also not stable with loiter and pos hold.
My Baro is covered with dark foam and alt hold p is tested and decreased
Read more…Is there any way to program it to either
1) turn on when I give certain inputs on channel 8 so that I can find a lost plane in tall weeds?
2) RC control is lost (similar to #1)
I think it would be as simple as having the option of adding a loud obnoxiou
Read more…What happens if in changing from Auto to Cruise Mode and then one clicks "Fly to here" on the Mission Planner? (Without RC connected?)
Will the aircraft navigate to the guided position but in Cruise Mode?
Read more…As discussed in the other thread, I wish my pixhawk didn't have a safety switch, or if it had one, that it were used only to arm the motor, not the servos.
So for my own safety I use motor arm via rudder (which I now have working), but if I didn't pus
Read more…Hey guys funny problem I get my new Pixhawks and load up the Mission Planner Wizard. It connects fine and goes through the musical tones just fins. Then in part three it connects and says no reason to up load firmware already on board. Then it goes t
Read more…My buddy Sean who makes the Aerotestra quadcopter told me I should post my new project here on DIY Drones because people would like seeing it...
I am assembling a coaxial tube shaped waterproof drone that carries a GoPro camera on the bottom end in a
Read more…I installed the Ublox Neo-6M GPS with V2.0 compass module on my APM2.6 and everything set up fine but when I look at the compass heading in Mission Planner the compass is indicating that the Hexacopter is pointing South when in fact it is pointing No
Read more…Hello everyone,
I was always wondering why my dataflash wouldn't work / record. But originally I managed to set up my octocopter without any problems so I didn't bother with it.
However, after a recent incident and the subsequent painfull repair I've d
Read more…Do you think it is possible to make a VTOL mode on APM?
Regards
APMlover
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I am building a twin motors plane.
I was searching if I have to set up the motors to spin in same directions or opposite directions.
I was reading that if they will be in same directions, the plane will go a little bit in the same direction of th
Read more…All I want to do is to ensure that the prop isn't active after battery power is applied, until I arm it but I want the servos to work with the prop not armed.
Question #1
The pixhawk arm button is apparently required to arm the servos. Why? I really wi
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I have a cruise fixed wings plane, my motor is 550w and it consumes around 10A on a 3S battery.
But I have few questions:
2- If I want to compare 2 batteries: 3s 11.1v 6000mah an
This was kind of scary.
Pixhawk, APM 3.0.3 plane, I was testing stuff on the bench, the prop was not armed, I verified I could not turn it on with the remote and APM planner said "disarmed"
I then tried 'preflight reboot' and this caused the throttle t
Read more…So, Ive recently put APM on an RC Timer F800. The first few flights went very well. At the time, I was running a Futaba 8J. By the end of the first day, stabilize was spot on and the Hex was flying really well. On the second day of flight testing, I
Read more…When toggling to Flight Mode 1, I see the following in Mission Planner in the Flight Modes screen:
- Flight Mode 1 (set to Position Hold) for PWM 0 to 1230
- Curr PWM = 1169
- Flight Mode 1 is highlighted as green as it should when changing modes
- But t
Read more…I have a radio already setup with lots of mixes and throttle is on channel 1.
I plugged it to my pixhawk via SBUS, so I can't move channels around by swapping cables.
I told APM that throttle is channel with RCMAP_THROTTLE set to 1.
However when I go to
Read more…Selling 2 of my multirotors to help fund my next project. First up is a tricopter that flies great. It is a Turnigy talon tricpoter frame, Turnigy 620KV pancake motors swinging 14x5.5 MR props, afro 20 amp esc, and a KK2.1 loaded with steveis 1.17
Read more…Is it possible to add a second GPS to the pixhawk?
Only the CAN port can support the 5 pin cable
Thanks
Read more…Hi Everyone,
I want to build a Quad for tethered flight. Something that can climb and hold for long durations. Its just a hobby project, so I don't have any huge problems regarding reliability right now.
So here are the requirements:
1. Should be able t
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