What causes an APM 2.5 to save the home location? Power up when GPS locks, or arming?
I'd really like it to remember the home location when I arm it...
Thanks for the information.
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New to this...
Have installed the 3DR telemetry radios, and am looking at the possibility of using a joystick for telemetry control.
First...
What's the general thoughts about the pros and cons of joystick/gamepad vs R/C radio?
And I assume I
Read more…Hey I saw the q-brain multi esc on hobbyking. Has anyone had any issues using this?
Read more…I'm running into problems with Voltage sag, I think.
Eg: At rest, armed V=11.8. Spool up to hover power, and it drops to 10.5. Push the sticks a bit in Stabilise, and it's down to 10.0. Land, disarm...back to 11.7-11.8.
This is slightly annoying and da
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I had a crash a couple weeks ago ("moderate" impact?...APM case intact), and am wondering about the integrity of my APM 2.5+ and it's accelerometers and other sensors.
When I connect to Mission Planner...sometimes, but not always, the artifi
Read more…Hi my transmitter hasn't arrived yet but I have a battery and a telemetry set hooked to my hexacopter. I was wondering if i could do guided mode without having a transmitter at all?
Read more…Been in the UK I have to use the 2.4GHz xbee pro units rather than the 900MHz you folk in the US have access to. After a fair bit of playing and getting nowhere fast I added some buffering between the xbee and ardupilot. Using a 7404 chip I finally g
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I'm doing PID tuning today, and it's 20mph winds. The thing is bouncing around all over the place even in loiter, and I'm not sure if it's the rates or the wind. :-)
What's the max wind you will fly in? Did you
Read more…i had MP 1.2.33 installed on my pc and yesterday i run it first time to test my APM2.5 for my rover project. it told me that there were an update awailable when i run MP. i did the update and it updated to version 1.2.51.. but now i cannot see any ha
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While browsing log files, I am having difficulty knowing what data is in each column.
Why? Because the column headers seem to change when connected vs not connected.
For example, the ATT data, I thought, has these columns - Roll In, Roll, Pitch In, P
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I'm setting up an APM 2.5 for the first time in an X8 and would like to know if anyone has a config file or PIDs that they'd be willing to share. Hoping to test fly as soon as the winds permit.
Thanks!
Jimmy
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I am writing my own code for the ardupilot 2.5 board and have the eagle files and schematics, however I am totally confused as to the pinout. (my vehicle is a bit different from a standard vehicle and connected with my work so I am not allowed
Read more…Does anybody know what the power requirements are for these air radios (915Mhz specifically)?
I want to put one in my Turnigy 9x and it's been suggested that the 5V regulator has 60-100mA to spare.
Thanks,
--Bob
Read more…Howdy, going to be testing some new aerial mapping drones this summer and will be putting $1000+ cameras into the bellies of these beasts. I've used a Turnigy 9x the last couple years with my little foamies, but it doesn't give me a sense of confiden
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Multirotor is new to me and i have developed an interest in these crafts. I fly RC helis and have done so for the last 6 years or so.
Lets a i have a Hex with motors and ESC's, what else would i need to get into the air?...My plan is to do som
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In the manual it says that when RTL is switched on, the copter will climb to a minimum altitude 15m.
Is 15m absolute, or is it relative to the home position where the copter was armed?
Thanks.
Read more…Hi, couple beginner questions on the RTF quad. After getting stick time behind the v202 I purchased the RTF kit because of my remote island location in the middle of the pacific. It's 2000mi over open ocean to the nearest hardware store which makes t
Read more…Hi everyone,
I slipped when tightening the prop bolt on one of my nice shiny (expensive!) T-Motors and the hex driver went into the windings. You can see from the image below that at least one of the wires is definitely severed, and others could have
Read more…(Changed text 5/24/2012, 6/20/13)
You can now find all the details for compiling Mission Planner here http://dev.ardupilot.com/wiki/compile-mission-planner/
This post will probably be removed and is not current.
Here you will find information on downloa
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Just a requiste if someone else has encountered this. last week saterday I flew my APM 2 in a plane all was fine, and today I tried updating firmware and it did not work anymore over USB when clicking on the firmware of my choice, (acro) it
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