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
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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
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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
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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
Read more…Ive now done 6 test flights with no luck. Im trying to use the camera shutter option (in the standard parameters) called trigger when 3m from waypoint. But so far, no luck.
Before we go any further, I'll say that my triggering setup works, and will t
Read more…Has anybody used a different USB to serial adapter to configure or update the 3dr 915 MHz radios? I don't currently have the FTDI cable but I have a boatload of PL-2303 based serial adapters that seem to be basically the same thing. Is there anythi
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I have just lost control of my X8 last Friday during a survey mission using the APM2.5 and Mission Planner 1.2.4x and ArdoPlane 2.72.
Having a successful flight the previous day, I could not get the autopilot to fly to my first waypoint although in
Read more…I had a big crash and smashed a few arms and motors. That got me thinking about parachutes. I did a search and some people are talking about it. I was lucky enough to find a website that actually sells them, ready to go and thought others would like
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I have a couple of https://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/176 am trying to add one as an external GPS to an APM 2 board and my board will not see it.
The GPS powers up ok and gets a fix, based on LED flashing.
What have I not done? I have disabled the onbo
Read more…Have a problem, Adruplane drops my full up elevator input down to 20% down elevator.
I have flown this plane before with the exact settings, before I installed the APM2.5, now after I installed the APM, the moment I give full elevator up input it lowe
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I have several multicopters with Wookong and Nazam which have been great but am now looking for more flexibility with AC.
I have built a new frame, installed an APM2 with Digi XTend modems and have established communications and followed the gu
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I had my Copter crash on Saturday. I am almost certain that it's some sort of fault within the hardware but i am unable to graph the logs. This is not because they are not present, but because I do not know how.
Please help me read them out.
Th
Read more…I've just released ArduPlane 2.73 as a bug fix release for several important bugs in 2.72
The main reasons for this release are:
Yesterday, I couldn't get Mission Planner's Ctrl+F geotagger to work. I've used it many times before with no problem. No matter what log I loaded, it said that the log began and ended 05/09/13 5:00:00 PM, and consequently there were 0 matches to phot
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I´ve done two new experimental flight modes for the APM, and now I want to put them in the Mission Planner, Where can I define the new flight modes in the MissionPlanner code?
Thanks
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