Hi all,Can someone recommend a UBEC that will give me 2.25a at 5v from a 6-8S pack? And will the APM still be able to do voltage monitoring on it?I have the 3DR module, but it only supports 4S; ill probably fry it if I use 6S.
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I almost crashed my X8 yesterday after failsafe setup...
I started in stabilize and after a few sec. i switched to pos/hold and the copter started to fly away..
switched to loiter but no success, back to stabilize i was able to get control but the ve
Read more…I live in a very forested area and have lost some planes and copters. More than I want to remember ;-) Not even far from my house but the forest is so thick that it could be 1 meter from you and you wouldn't' see it. I live on the edge of the largest
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I have been working over the past year on a new aircraft/near space craft design. This journey began back in August of 2012 and it has come a long way since then. The goal of the project was originally to simply design a reusable platform for
Read more…Haven't been able to find anything recent about this. Got my quad flyable yesterday evening. Using default PIDs was able to hover on a tether, then without the tether as everything seemed ok.
3DR Frame
APM2.5 /w 2.9.1
850kv 3DR motors
30 amp RCTimer ESCs
Read more…I have been messing with tuning on the simulator, as well as outside in the air. I have an odd problem that happens on every waypoint exchange: On every echange, the plane, both sim and real, nose down sharply then proceed to regain altitude. Any ide
Read more…I've been working with arduplane/copter for a few months now, and my interest has earned me a project at the college I'm in. Currently, we have a AXN Floater, which is essentially just an easystar with slightly less than one foot taken off the wingsp
Read more…I have been working with the autoland feature with my Newskywalker with no success. I'm using APM 2.0 with 2.69 firmware and the latest MP
My problem is the plane will maintain the second last way point altitude until it reach the last way point (Auto
Read more…During a 2 minute hover in loiter i decided to do a 360 yaw to get a panorama, however the copter suddenly cut power and fell i was not able to input control until suddenly it just throttled back up.
Any idea what happened?
How do i download the log fi
Read more…Hi Everyone!
I'd like to share the following potential issue and would like to discuss:
Observation:
If calculated consumed capacity is beyond available capacity parameter, low_battery_event function is called.
This function set mode to RTL.
Because this
I am finding that my map on the Mission Planner does not reflect the true position of my APM board. Now this may be an error with Google Maps, rather than the Mission Planner or the APM's GPS (I'm using the Mega, ATM).
I'm just putting this out there
Read more…I feel this question has been asked and answered by I can't find the post.
Still in the testing phase. Trying to setup heli after replacing all three swashplate servos. In the past I have setup the servos in regular heli setup with out the APM. This t
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I like to run my plane without an RC-receiver so just by telemetry (Mission planning).
Has someone already tried to add or change some code so that the plane would fly without an RC-Receiver?
Otherwise I have to do it by myself, just like to ask firs
Read more…I have a little problem. I`m probably missing something, heres the issue
2 laptops 1=win xp 1=win7
win XP updated to mission planner 2.40 but win7 updated to 2.41. I go to find the file in the download section but it only goes to 2.40 so how did the w
Read more…In my 1/8 Catalina PBY I have an on board pneumatic pump with a small tank for wheel retracts. I installed the pump since the valve leaks just a little bit (pressure 6-8 bar). After installing the ArduPilot 2.5 had to replace the brushed motor with b
Read more…I've just released ArduPlane 2.71 for your flying pleasure.
As was described in the 2.71-beta thread, these are the major changes from 2.70:
Hi,
Kerstrel has this add on called OnPoint Viision that is really nice in stabilizing the video feed (via IP) Is there any alternatives that stabilizes video feed in real time like OnPoint?
Thanks
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Just a question for confusion :).
Let's say I want to learn in a throttlerange between 1000-2000us into an ESC (or a bunch). Will the "learning effect/precision" be altered by the pwm frequency I use. When I learn them in with 50Hz and use them wi
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