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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I want to change the flight modes via de applanner without the use of the rc system, Is this possible? I want this, because I want to have all the 8 channels of the RC system free.
Thanks
Jesus
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I bought the:
- Arducopter complete kit (unassembled) from 3DR
- 3S 5000mAh LIPO battery from Hobbyking (here)
Problem:
While building from my Arducopter kit, while soldering/ connecting the PDB, I found that I did not receive a connector compatible f
Read more…On my quad, one of the motors starts just a little later than the other 3.
First I thought that the problem is the motor, so I changed it with a brand new one, but the problem didn't go away. Now I see that the ESC connected to that motor get warm - n
Read more…Does the Auto takeoff mode work? I have only tried auto land and have been a bit skeptical of Auto takeoff feature.
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I use mission planner in windows 7, never had any problem with it but today I started the update from 1.36 and right now when I try to start it shows a message that I need "microsoft framework 4.0" installed, but I've already installed 4.5 and it
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I have a notebook to run Mission Planner in the field, but when I am home, I'd like to use my desktop.
Is there a problem using two different computers like that? Will settings and such be synced between the two computers? (When Mission
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I have just finalized the construction of a 3DR HexaCopter and started the first trials.
As recommended I have programmed the 3-way button of my RC to Stabilize, ALT HOLD and POS HOLD.
While the first 2 modes can be saved to the APM I always get
Read more…Today I did a maiden flight of a Droidworx SkyJib that I built with an APM. It's an octocopter in coax configuration using Tiger 4014 motors and 14 inch props. With batteries it weighs 5.8Kg.
Upon take off it swung back and forth in what I think peopl
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