I have been trying to find the main location for APM 3.0 beta info and discussions but most of it seems to be in other topics.
Anyway I have installed 3.0 rc6 and have got about 2 hours flying on it now. Most things seem good but I was getting very s
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for unknow reason my tricopter crashed yesterday during FPV flight.
since i don't have much experience with this please help me to find out what happend.
The crash was between line 5500 - 5600 :-(
Thanks
Thomas
Read more…I'm trying to find out what weight advantage APM2.x has over a 1.x version.
Has anyone this info? I can't find it on the store website or elsewhere, but maybe I'm being dumb...
Read more…Bit of a strange one this with my quad.
1. In loiter, altitude is gradually lost. Positioning is totally fine, it's just the alt. Raise it up to 8m and it will drift back to 3m in about 5 minutes. Sticks are exactly mid stick.
2. In auto, and alt hold,
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I had a great day at the field yesterday with a new airframe, the Blitz RC Super Sky Surfer. With a 95" wingspan and a 6.25lb total weight fully loaded this is a big lazy plane! It has a cruising spe
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I am looking for a long range (~10 km) telemetry solution at 868 MHz. At the moment we're using Adeunis ARF53 radios, but it seems they are no longer manufactured. We got great range with them - over 10 km NLOS in a suburban area using simple wire
Read more…I need a little tuning help.. If someone else is using a Arducopter Quad pretty much stock, with using the BETA 3.0RC5 with good results, I'd like to see your PID settings.
I recently flashed the 3.0rc5 on my apm 2.5 in an arducopter quad that is
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Due to some issues with Ubuntu and the GPU on my system (see ubuntuforum discussion: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2153027), I am not able to run MissionPlanner. I'd rather not use a VM with windows. Would there be a way to program ArduP
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I tried getting follow-me working with my phone and bluetooth-xbee bridge I made.
There is no problem with the bridge, it connects and I can change details on the quad from the phone.
When enabling follow-me, the qaud just stays in the same p
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the BEC of my ESC burned out for some reason (really, with smoke) and since then my APM doesn't talk anymore, neither via telemetry, nor via USB. It is recognized by the PC as Arduino Mega 2560 and the com LEDs flicker but no data is coming throug
Read more…Does the joystick work while flying in Auto mode? In other words, can I change the Yaw angle while flying in straight line from point A to point B in Auto mode?
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I would like to get into flying drones and i'm really excited I just don't know what to buy. Since I would like to have a FPV system and of course Ardupilot. I'm about to purchase the already made system from Udrone but I was really hoping for s
Read more…I'm branching out trying to understand all the functions of the Mission Planner so I might better take advantage of it's capabilities. I have been searching for an answer to the question of how to create a mission that will loop either 'X' times, or
Read more…Hello All,I am currently tuning my new airframe and have got it flying pretty well in stab. I am now trying to get it flying currently in alt hold.I get the airframe hovering nicely in stab mode and then select alt hold, the airframe seems to happily
Read more…I had some trouble with my hexcopter on its maiden voyage. I flew the copter and got it in the air, then a few seconds later one of the props flew off along with the top of the motor nut. I have a video of it for you to look at. Any one know a fix to
Read more…Hi. I currently have a quad arducopter. I am also building up a hex. The plan was to be able to just take the electronics stack from the quad and put it on the hex when I wanted to fly it. I figured all I would have to do is plug everything back in a
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Alt-hold is working great. However in both position hold and RTL the quad starts to rise. I've got the APM moongel mounted.
Here is my Accel_Z plot:
Too much vibration? I've got it moongel mounted. I figured since alt-hold is working well it
Read more…Wonder if anyone can help.
I have commissioned my Hexa B with 5.8ghz FPV.
Works fine with all telemetry and OSD.
Suffering oversized screen display.
However, the screen is missing the sides of the picture. It is a 16:9 monitor like used for a car DVD etc
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My HEX crashed from a FAILSAFE / DISARM event in mid flight!
I have been successfully flying Quads & Hex's with previous firmware versions of Arducopter using APM 2.5 boards until Saturday afternoon's unexpected crash. For a long time I have bee
Read more…Hello, I started today with Arducopter using the APM2.5 and the GPS UBLOX by Crius, before I used Multiwii the ArtuPiratesNG.
The APLM 2.5 power supply is from PWM input, I using the power supply from my receiver, it is preset in PPM mode (FrSky FASST
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