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I have space constraint in quadrotor's design and have to limit the diameter of the propellers. Have anyone tried stacking two propellers as an attempt to increase the thrust ? Definitely its nett thrust is less than that having two propellers
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With 2.9.1b engaging Loiter the quad stays for 1-3 seconds and you can hear the motors are controlled, then suddenly it shoots up. Ive read about the throttle mid setting but if thats the case here wouldnt it shoot up straight away?
If someone could
Read more…Crashed today and broke my uBlox GPS...need a replacement, and trying to save a few bucks.
Anyone have one in a drawer (MediaTek or uBlox) you wanna sell?
Thanks...
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Threw a prop today from about 20 feet up (I have had 3 crashes, all because of props flying off...ughhh!).
Anyway, take a look at the picture...the antenna cracked (I guess)...the GPS accepts power...the red light comes on, but I don't get a
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I have an APM 2.5 installed in a flying wing airframe. I previously had this APM in a multicopter and had it working well. I installed the ArduPlane V2.72 on the APM, and downloaded and installed the Skywalker Parameters, and calibrated my rad
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I cannot find Octa V in Missionplanner anymore ( I can see it on old screenshots in the wiki). Can anybody please be so kind and tell me where to find it ? Or is it no longer supported ?
Thank You.
Read more…I am trying to troubleshoot a problem that occurred after a crash that bent a motor off my 3DR quad. Now the quad will arm only when I have the APM 2.5 connected to the computer via a USB cable. If the LiPo battery is connected to the quad and the US
Read more…I used the planner of 1.2.50 calibration the accel ,when i click the "calibrate accel" button,it can't receive any command!why?
Read more…Hi all,Just something I thought of over dinner...what is the smallest quad you can make with an APM aboard?Interested to see what you guys have come up with. I'm toying with a droidworx trainer frame install next, but wonder if I could go smaller sti
Read more…I recently bought a new Arducopter Hexa from 3DRobotics. I was able to fly 3 times (each flight only about 5 minutes) and now for no reason the APM does not start when I plug in a battery. It first happened after a short test flight, I unplugged the
Read more…Hey guys, Im no expert here, however I did notice that after upgrading Mission Planner from 2.1.48 to 2.1.49 and 2.1.50, the geo referencing is way off on the estimated seconds. In 2.1.48, my seconds offset was 265 sconds for the file and log I was u
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Edit : from the posts below I deduce the issue seems specific to my config. Threfore I remove temporarily my request to add a line a caution in the wiki as it might not be a general problem for everyone, until further investigation and identificat
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I was testing RTL failsafe today using 2.9.1b and my hex flew away, losing altitude and crashing before it got too far.
I had successfully tested LOITER, RTL and a quick AUTO prior to nervously switching off my transmitter to test the fail
Read more…I'm having a consistent problem (confirmed by another user) that GRID V2 will not fill in the polygon with points. Instead, it only fills in the 1st 3 waypoints, then back to home.
Is this a bug? FYI, standard GRID (V1) works fine.
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I've got a problem on the compass on my APM 2.0: On CLI it results always as "not Healty", with always the same initialization message "Compass init error". I tried to download the firmware of ArduCopter from 2.9.1b to 2.9.1 and 2.
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I'm part of a group at Wright State University making an autonomous mower based on the Ardurover platform. We are using a APM 2.5, Sabertooth 2x60 speed controller, 3DR Radio (900 MHz), uBlox GPS, Spektrum AR6255 Receiver, and Spektru
Read more…What AWG (size) wire should one use to shave a significant load from the multi-copter so it flies longer and quicker? What I found was that most people are approaching the problem all wrong.
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I got a hexacopter running on MT 4008-12 spinning 15x4 props on 4S lipos. At full throttle I should have 2:1 thrust to weight and at 70% I should have 1:1 thrust to weight.
Yet I can't even get it to take off at 5.6kg. Other than setting max thr
Read more…I have just had a very successful flight with ArduPlane 2.72 (Thanks to all involved, great work).
I got back and downloaded the logs for the flight so i could look at it on Google Earth,
but the .kmz file does not contain my flight.
I tried re-creating
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decided to start this for a place we can talk about the PX4 I personally have got it loaded with firmware and connected to the mission planner but cant get it working with sbus and I hear there are problems with the 8ch ppm encoder boa
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