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I almost finished assembly my F450 with APM 2.6 and have 2 question before i go to the filed.
1. Should i made a first flight with GPS or without it? GPS have a compass onboard. It will be mounted on stand pole so if i crash/flip it will be destro
Read more…Hi, I'm about to mount my APM 2.6 main module and was wondering if anyone had experience with placing their radio receiver in close proximity to the APM. My concern is whether doing so runs the risk of creating interference.
As you can see in the pho
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I am making a thesis about a system to auto land a quadcopter on a station based on a visual homing system.
I have already made some studies on the problem, and used Youtube footage to test some hypothesis. The problem is that visual homing is
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I am on my first APM-plane build. I'm having a weird issue where on boot of the APM, one of my servos is pushed 100% in one direction. This only happens if the signal wire is plugged into the APM.
Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Read more…So I've read around that there's no failsafe on the stock Turnigy 9xV2 system, which seems pretty damn stupid to me.
However, I've noticed that if you actually trim the throttle up, you could set it (through calibration in Arducopter) that your min th
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OK, so I read the line which states: "The presence of a drone at a crime scene for journalistic purposes is in violation of FAA regulations
Read more…Can some one help me. I have been throughout the forum and can't seem to find a direct detailed answer to my question.
I know there is an article with an option to connect a GPS module via "bypass" through the APM2 to connect to the u-center, however,
Read more…Hi everyone, this is my first post on here and i would like to thank everyone for all the hard work and long hours helping others.
So i am running mission planner 1.2.94 and using a steadidrone quad with 12" props, extended landing gear, gopro, no gim
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I came across Rolfs great project where he is converting MAVLink to FrySkys Smart Port protocol with an offboard processor and sending to the FrySky X8R which then beams the telemetry back to Taranis transmitter so you can view data on Transm
Read more…Does anyone know which parameter group I can find airspeed to log (passively). I have looked in CTUN and NTUN but neither appear to have this listed. Any hints and tips here...?
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I think my telemetry port may be damaged.
I tried to set up a minim osd but i failed to understand the wiring correctly.
this worked ok when powered from the usb link
however when i connected the main lipo battery (camera and Tx 12v fr
Read more…So I was flying in loiter, when suddenly my front left motor arm just rapidly dipped, and recovered about half a second later. I quickly put it into stabilize and brought it back safely.
However now just looking at the logs, I don't really see anythin
Read more…Running 3.0.1 on a micro quad and want to confirm that its okay to run it WITHOUT a GPS....anything that I need to change in Params...like in the AHRS section? I see references to GPS weighting....should I set that to 0?
I want to save the space and w
Read more…Given that nearly everyone has LEDs installed on their multirotors for orientation, I thought, why not try doing a long exposure and flying it around?
I have 4 sets of LED's installed on my quad, but the front and back 2 are linked. They are connected
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I have a hexacopter from jdrones with an apm 2.5 and jdrone esc 30. I can not get any form of response from the uav when I try to go into esc calibration mode. I've checked the mission planner and was able to go through the radio calibration pr
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I've a twin with elevator and two aileron servos but no rudder.
With my RC only I connect the two ailerons to dedicated ports.
Using the APM2.5 it seems that I've to use an Y-cable to the
aileron output or is there another setup possible to con
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When flying my quad in stabilize mode, while hovering or moving slowly, the heading direction keeps changing by few degrees left and back, without touching the yaw. It seems to be some kind of interference with the compass (it's onboard 2.5
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Cleaning space for 2014, selling one of my new Red Epic Octocopter heavy lifter rigs! (less than 2 hours total flight) 'BigMama' model, exact same setup as I used on the set of 'The Expendables 3' film set and other features last year, flyin
Hi guys, I'm in need of some advice of getting longer flight time with a gopro gimbal on a trex 450 pro stretched.
Currently I'm using a DFC head with 350mm Spinblades asymmetrical blades, with a 5000mah 3s lipo I have a flight time of around 13min. I
Read more…Hi there. I'm trying to make it happen with the following setup:
PC_1 (Win7) running Mission Planner 1.2.94 connected to Pixhawk v2.78b over USB and via ethernet to PC_2 (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) running X-Plane 10. My setup is just as the one given in thi
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