Is there a known good way to set the PID controllers on a hexcopter? I moved from an underpowered quad to an overpowered hex and it's (at least by comparison) very "squirrely". Very sensitive to manual inputs, and when I tried to fly it with the defa
Read more…Thought I'd share what I found while working with an external compass and PX4.
When configuring the compass in the Mission Planner we have 4 options, 1 is "On Board APM", 1 is "External Compass", 1 is "On Board PX4" and 1 is "Manual". Since I had a e
Read more…I was wondering: as the pitot tube is an air inlet, what would happen if, during flight, the plane caught some rain, or flew through a low clowd? The plane can be made water resistant, but what if the water enters the pitot tube and goes to the airsp
Read more…I've been having a lot of problems flying my Y6. Yaw would change while flying forward or backwards. The motors on the bottom would getting really hot. Someone at the airfield that I fly at notice that I had my props on upside down. He mention th
Read more…Hello all,
Where to start... Well, My name is Justin, and aviation is my life. I grew up in a family with aviation in our heart and blood. Everyone in my family has been in some sort of aviation, whether it is Full scale helis, prop jobs, jets/airline
Read more…Hi everybody...
I have decided to switch 1 of my APM 2.5 from multicopter to plane.
I am using a bixler 1.1 stock setup .
But when in STABILIZE mode the plane turns to the right quite hard ..
I have the APM nice and level , any ideas please ....
Cheers
Read more…Could this be used for 3g telemetry (http://www.netcommwireless.com/product/m2m/ntc-4000)?
Read more…Just got a Skywalker flying with apm2.5 bad with 2.7 firmware....ublox ne-06 with 3dr config...everything works great..except GPS will intermittently go from 6-11 SATs to zero for a couple seconds and back...in steady level flight...mounted on front
Read more…Hi everyone, I've just finished building a tricopter, put an apm 2.6 with external mag/gps on a self made mast very far from any interference, but close to the CG my apm is directly on the CG. done all the mandatory hardware config, my compass offset
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This is a discussion re the ArduCopter-3.1 AutoTune feature. A place for people to report successes and failures, ask questions and get answers.
The AutoTune wiki page is here.
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Hi,
When mounting the board into the airframe, the best place to mount the board has about 9° inclination compared to the airframe when it is in horizontal position, how will it influance on the performance of the system, and will the accelerometer ca
Read more…I have a low end MD80 camera on my Bixler1.1 which takes decent video footage. But when I turn on the autopilot into FBWA mode the video has waves in it. The plane is steady, flies like a dream with the autopilot but the video is distorted. When I
Read more…I finally got to take my new IRIS out for a short flight. Everything went well for a maiden flight except the status LEDs are not working. I removed the shell and the status LED on the PixHawk is not working either.
Any suggestions for me to try whil
Read more…Guys,
I wanted to dabble into setting up an antenna tracker. Got myself the ServoCity Tube servos, for Pan and Tilt. Assembled it all with a Polulu Maestro and got the interface working. Followed the article here :
http://vps.oborne.me/gcs/Tracker.html
Read more…Last week I received 4S batteries and have been trying to tune the PID's on my Y6 for it. I am hoping some of you who are using 4S batteries can share your params so I can compare. I started with the params file posted on the 3DR site. http://3drobot
Read more…Got a problem with my mimimosd.
I have a hobbyking FPV switcher inline with my gimballed gopro, and my pilot cam (sc2000 - the one everyone buys). The minimosd sits between the fpv switcher video out, and the tx.
The problem is that I get a perfect ove
Read more…Hi,
last week I tried autotune with my Y6 copter. With my tricopter it worked so great, that I was expecting a good result with the Y6.
At some point the copter did some strange movements and nearly crashed to the ground. I could recover it by taking o
Read more…Does anyone know where I can buy a replacement pitot tube for the older style airspeed kit? I looked on in 3DR store but didn't see the tube sold seperately.
Read more…Hi everyone,
I had my maiden flight today and it went not too bad... it's flying, but.....
...of course some problems.
I really need some help to solve them.
- First of all in "Altitude Hold Mode" it goes slowly either up in the sky or down and eventuall
Read more…Does anyone know how I can get a multirotor to maintain constant yaw/orientation during an automated flight - i.e. instead of pointing to the next waypoint, I want the platform to maintain a specified orientation throughout the flight. Thanks in adva
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