I am tidying up my hex, making room for my video transmitter. I am going to put the video transmitter on the top layer of my stack. My telemetry board and antenna are on the top layer as well. To avoid crowding, I was going to mount my GPS module on
Read more…Hi All,
This is about a few questions that now or later people will ask. About me, I am interested in APM series like most. I think it has done a great job so far. I myself already own a few and have worked in projects with it over the past years.
As m
Read more…Most of us are familiar with the "American style" artificial horizon - the sort where the little aeroplane picture stays still and the horizon moves around. But who's seen the "Russian style" AH, which has a stationary horizon and moveable aircraft?
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Read more…Just got another APM 2.5 in the mail today. This one appears to have a piece of pink foam inside the case. My original APM 2.5 did not have this foam. Is this something new? Does it need to come out? If not, do I need a piece in my older APM 2.5?
Than
Read more…Many apologies if this has already been asked and remedied, I wasn't able to find anything on a search..
Just got a new Surface Pro 128 the other day and have loaded MP on it. I haven't yet connected to an APM, but wanted to review logs while on a ve
Read more…I did fly my copter on top of water (fountains in a park) and at some moment copter felt down in water (my mistake).
It was a Hero2 installed and running on the copter.
I did not have the water case for hero2, just the lens protection from LayerLens (l
Read more…Went to try out 3.0 today to see if it might help my GPS Fix issue (no satallites, no fix) but unable to load firmware through MP either manually or automatically. What is this error message telling me? Is this an issue with something I am doing or
Having completed the compassmot calibration and got my readings down to <30%, I'm still having issues with GPS hold.
I tried a couple of tests today and when switching to LOITER, the throttle on the hex just decreased to such an amount that the hex st
Read more…So, a few weeks ago, I had my quad flying beautifully, all up until I pushed the limits on the battery which ended up in an all motors off fall from the sky from about 200 ft. Needless to say the damage required an all new frame and motors and such,
Read more…I am connecting the battery as usual and the APM 2.5 is not lighting up. I got home and started disconnecting everything from it and finally it worked. I checked the DF13 6 position connector (voltage regulator) and it seems to be ok. Has anybody had
Read more…I have a little quad setup for doing tests on various flight controllers, FPV etc. Went out to try out a new FPV camera using APM 2.5+ with Ublox GPS (both from 3DR). Had been working fine (about a month old) but today when I went to fly from same
Read more…I recently watched the video on mu metal testing and i was wondering if anyone knew where to get some in California.
Read more…Just sharing a weird experience I had.
I had trouble connecting at times and not at others.
Using the Hotel.1.0 (H.1.0) Oilpan.
After extensive testing I worked out that if I connect a 3 inch wire to the pin opposite to "G2 (39)" on the Tx/Rx connector
Read more…I went over the pre-flight checks on the KK Multicopter sight. Everything seemed in order until I got to the part of reversing the roll. When I attempted to reverse the roll I had the gain pot setting backwards. No big deal, right? Just do it again i
Read more…Hello,
for a narrow glider fuselage I need to install the APM2.5 in vertical orientation, GPS plug on top.
According to http://plane.ardupilot.com/wiki/arduplane-parameters/#Board_Orientation_AHRS_ORIENTATION I set AHRS_ORIENTATION to 19 (=Roll270)
But
Read more…Hi guys, i am building my ground station, today only use OSD Pro + LCD 10 inch, in future will use 2 lcds, each one with 10 inch, one will be in horizontal (Video feed from airplane) and another one will be tablet using windows 8 with Mission Planner
Read more…Finished soldering everything and the ardustation worked using a 12v battery via the barrel jack( hope i used the correct name for that). I cant seem to turn the ardustation on via that source, and ive switched batteries that are fully charged and ve
Read more…Hi everybodyyy...
I had set a mission with around 20 way points.
My quad got to around halfway , way point 13 ,which was the furthest distance from the start
around 600meters . Then the quad made an auto landing with out finishing the mission .
I had t
Read more…During tesing of motor-off recovery at safe altitude (60meters), the quad fell stright down, - propellers were spinning backwards, and motors stalled, not being able to turn in right direction.
At much too low altitude, the quad rolled, making 2 of th
Read more…hello. try to use the auto trim, have set channel 7 to save trim. but it does not work. have trimmed my tricopter and turn on Channel 7 for at least 1 sec. zeroes then trim on the radio. test to lift again as untrimmed as before.
When I tune in I stab
