I'm setting up my new Skywalker with APM2.5 and power module. All work fine but I notice the voltage reading in the HUD is fluctuating within about 0.5 volt. It will not stay in one reading even though I didn't move anythings. The current also show 1
Read more…So my hexa copter once I had armed it jumps up to about 500 feet, mills around a bit and did not respond to stick inputs very well. It then took off and climbed to about 2000 ft and took a course that made it unable to follow. It then came back wit
Read more…Well, she hit hard today on the first flight of the day from 120 ft. The plane is a skywalker 1900 and it completely went unresponsive while in FBW-A. Im using 2.72 firmware. Can anyone help asses the logs to maybe pin point the problem? I noticed a
Read more…I've been working on my quad for a while and while I believe I had a brown out. I was working on trims and had just swapped a bad battery, gave it some throttle and then things became unresponsive and so did mission planner. A few seconds later MP re
Read more…Im completely fed up with this system. I purchased it for one reason: to make a mapping rig. Now Im slowly finding out that the main feature I desired, to have the camera take a picture at the waypoint via the "trigger when 3m from waypoint" in the s
Read more…Greetings All,
Last weekend I maiden-ed my new 8' (2.4m) Super Sky Surfer with Arduplane 2.72 and had a fantastic first flight. Stabilize, FBW-A and Loiter all worked fine right out of the box with no further tuning; although I'm sure some refinement
Read more…I've been thinking about this quite a bit. Especially after looking into the 3GX system with GPs and seeing the price of the combo.
Why not just strap my cellphone to a frame and fly that?
If you go down the list of features and what you need and want
Read more…Hi All,
I've misplaced my power module and would like to know if it's possible to use my APM 2.5 without it until I can get another one in. Is it possible? How do I power the servos and APM?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Jimmy
Read more…Just wondering - has anyone tried the gimbal control options in APM with Alexmos rc2.0?Supposedly Alexmos can take a feed from a FC to improve its stabilization.
Read more…Anything from ArduPlane v2.69 HIL and up seems to not want to work correctly. When connecting to MP 1.2.50 with v2.69 - v2.73 HIL firmwares (APM 2.0 board), MP doesn't see the RC controller and there's no way to config the "Radio Calibration" feature
Read more…A friend gave me an older(?) 3DR radio?
Anyway, it has 4 leads/wires coming off the "flying" portion.
Can someone take a look at the pic and tell me which of the 6 board connections need wires soldered to them, and to which pins on the APM 2.5 they sho
Read more…Hi folks...
New to this.
Have an APM 2.5+ and a Turnigy 9x radio.
I have been able to successfully fly, but only with full pitch trim down (as selected on the radio by pushing that little trim switch forward).
I have calibrated the sticks using the radio
Read more…Dear all.
I am in the last stage of putting together my 3d robotic hex. I would be really really helped with some guidance on how to stack up the hardware: where do I put the GPS, APM, Rx and teletry? Should the APM be on the mount plate or the first
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I currently have a DX8 + AR8000 + TM1000 tx/rx setup, connected to an APM2.5+. Rx power comes from the APM, and APM power comes from the 3DR power module (with a 3S source).
How do I get the APM to "pass through" the 3S source voltage to the
Read more…Hello All,
I have been working on an propeller based autopilot for a while now, and things have been coming along great. Although I was nervous about the lack of interrupts, the faster speed and multiple cogs have made timing the program efficient. I
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At the end of last year I was starting to get comfortable with missions, but one step forward, two back....
Loaded 3.0rc1 and was very happy with loiter, stable, etc. I then set up a simple square mission at 5 meters - it loitered 10 seconds at each
Read more…I am wondering which is the easiest way to see where is a gap (missing data) in telemetry log file (when MP says: Warning, not data for 4 sec..."
One way would be to look at first column in TLog (exported as cvs or txt) and see if there is some missio
Read more…I recently had a crash that bent a motor off the arm of my quad and am now only able to arm my 3DR quad when it is connected to my computer via USB. After some troubleshooting following input from folks on this forum I think the problem is a burned o
Read more…I have APM 2.5, MinimOSD 1.1, Fatshark transmitter with a low pass filter for the battery connection. I configured the placement of gauges to my liking and they are showing up correctly. I'm getting a 0 to -.1 amp reading in the current meter on th
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