Does anyone have experience flying in close proximity (within 4 metres) to High Voltage power lines? Specifically 110kv towers.
I have read that the lines can output a certain amount of RF, but I'm not sure what the nature of this RF is, and if it wou
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I hope someone will be able to help me here :-)
Since i'm not happy with the Stock frame setup (doesn't fit to my frame) i decided to start making my own Motor Layout.
here the frame
The Box in the middle is the APM and the CG.
here the defaults for t
Read more…In my learning to land quads, and I am finding my landings less than soft. Are there a decent set of legs other than the carbon fiber for a 3dr quad that can handle the abuses of a hard landing?
Chris
Read more…I'm building a pair of antennas for 5.8Ghz FPV, and I'm wondering if the length of the coaxial cable between the connector and the clover matter. A second question I have, for the TX I don't have a right angle connector, so it would be a problem if I
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so I built myself a quad to continue development of my groundstation project and to learn about quads. It's an MF450 from BEVRC. Everything works fine so far - still on the default params.
However, I noticed a constant drift of the copter. I did le
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I'm trying to get manual overideable gimbal servos configured on an APM2.5. I got 2 Corona Digital Metal Gear servos. When I set them to stabilize only, everything works just fine, on RC7/8 or RC10/11.
As soon as I add an RC channel as input, the s
Read more…Hi everyone, I have tried to find the correct page where I put this question and I' ve read more o less the pages which contains something about this. If this question doesn't fit here, please, forgive me and tell me where it fits.
I've seen all the f
Read more…IT seams that no one has been successful on making the latest arducopter versions to. Work in Hil mode with the latest version of flightgear.I would very much appreciate once somebody succeed , to post the setup on this discussion , so we can all lea
Read more…I'm starting to prepare for the next ArduPlane release, and I have updated the beta release on http://firmware.diydrones.com so everyone can test the release now.
The biggest change in this release is the inclusion of the new L1 navigation controller
Read more…Google Maps (in a laptop) will cache the last viewed map with detail as fine as viewed. Then you can go to a location with no internet and view the cache (versus the real internet data). This would be a great feature for Mission Planner since somet
Read more…Does anyone have a recommendation for a good composite to usb video convertor to use with the HUD in MP? I've got a cheap easycap one but it craps about at a very low frame rate and usually chokes and goes to black screen. I'm guess it can't handle t
Read more…Hi Michael, every time I open Mission Planner I reset the zoom level because it defaults back to almost full zoom out. Is it possible that this preference can be saved so it opens at the same zoom level as you closed it?
Read more…I have a APM Ver 1 which I recently installed into a 3DR Hex frame. I have a problem getting channel 6 to work. When I calibrate the radio channel 6 does not work if I unplug ch6 from the receiver and plug it in again it works until the radio is swit
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Another second opinion - what do we recon about this loiter? Should it be more stable?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2DSkT9s04k&feature=youtu.be
In other news...I need a new voltage alarm. Oh, and some new legs...and a new arm...and potentiall
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I would like to communicate my APM2 with MATLAB using USB.
Basically, I would like to send the raw data of the accelerometer, gyros, and the magnetometer to MATLAB for advanced processing.
What is the right code to write on the APM as well as
Read more…What I've Done:
I've put together a Quad with APM-2.5 and 3DR Radios. Unfortunately I don't have a R/C remote so I'm trying to set up my Quad to fly through the Mission Planner software with a joystick.
Before connecting the radios I can setup the joys
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DO i need to calibrate the compass on the apm 2.5+ before each flight?
THanks
DAmo
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