Hello,
on APM 2.5...
My throttle only works in Manual mode. If I switch to any of the assisted modes the throttle is turned off. I read that the plane must be in motion before the throttle will work in assisted modes but this is not the case in with my
Read more…Anyone have ever use rpm sensor to apm 2.5?
what rpm sensor do u use and how about to activate and send the data via telemetry?
Read more…Have been working long hours at work, but tried to keep up with changes in the ArduPlane source code but it looks like nothing has change after jan 8th.
Has it been moved to another location?
here is the link that I use to look at.
Read more…Last night I was playing with my quad with the fpv gear on and I could see that the Turnigy rx is losing the signal from the tx after less than 100 meters (going in RTL failsafe), when the FPV transmiter is on. My FPV tx is broadcasting on 1200MHz an
Read more…Hello everyone!
Today had very strange crash. Hexa was flying a mission, few minutes after take off hexa went down spining around itself(motors were spining) like it had low power or something came off. I had 11000 mah 4s maxamp lipo on it fully charg
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as I understand, circle is supposed to be like loiter, just without GPS. Last weekend, I was out testing and switched my APM into cirlce mode (with the R/C) and nothing happened. The Bixler 2 just flew straight. At this time, no GPS was installed
Read more…Hi
I am new to Drones and RC Helicopters
i need an Affordable Drone or RC Helicopter featuring....
1. Live camera or FPV or even a cheap video sys
2. some payload - 1kg to 5kg
3. more than 20 minutes flight time
4. at least 500meters to 1 km control range
5
Read more…Hey... Relative Newbie help, please.
Can't get my Camera Servo to work.
I've searched thru the forums and posts already.
I'm trying to set up my Camera tilt with the 3DR suppled camera gimble and servo.
I've plugged in the servo's signal wire to APM 11
Read more…Hi
I am new to Drones and RC Helicopters
i want to make an Affordable Drone or RC Helicopter featuring....
1. Live camera or FPV or even a cheap video sys
2. some payload - 1kg to 5kg
3. more than 20 minutes flight time
4. at least 500meters to 1 km contro
Read more…I'm not sure if anyone else has run into this problem, but after a lot of work to eliminate any potential ground-loop issues, it seems that having the brake enabled in an electronic speed control can destroy the new power module with built-in BEC, wh
Read more…Hi Gents.
I have DiyDrones Hexacopter with 850kv motors.
http://store.diydrones.com/ArduCopter_Hexa_3DR_Ready_to_Fly_from_Udrones_p/ud-achrtf01.htm
Currently running with 3s 5000mAh & 10x4.5 plastic prop.
Hovering at 50% Joystick.
Max flight time is 8 m
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Today I was trying to use the "Auto WP" tool in Mission Planner 1.2.35 on an APM 2.5 today. I have the mission planner displaying measurements in feet not meters. However when I create auto way points by using the AUTO WP tool, the heights ab
Read more…Hi when i do a download of the logs I get the following raw numbers,
Accel X = 0.60 Accel Y = o.47 and Accel Z = -9.84 these numbers vary a little but remain similar through out the log,my real question is why is the Accel Z so different
Read more…I'm in the process of upgrading my Hex to an Octo.
Of course using APM 2.5 along with 880kv jDrones motors and 30A jDrones ESCs (transplanted from the Hex).
As I am considering using 2 x flight batteries in parallel for this build, would it be best t
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My hexa will not take off straight up. It wants to flip to the left and right.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
Thank You
Thomas
Read more…Hi,
This is my first post here even though i have been reading for some time.
i recently built my quad with APM 2.5 firmware 2.9.1.
I was very gradually adjusting the Alt hold stabalisation parameters (as it initially kept jumping up 5 meters at a time
Read more…I have no compass data when I create GPX files from TLogs. In another thread someone said that you must have teh compass option on to create GPS files containing compas data but no details are given. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Bret C
Read more…Final Update
Things finally got worked out, the copter is a blast to fly, Everything is working as it should. There were some problems when the copter arrived, I had it built and supposedly configured by the folks at 3DR and the basic copter was set u
Read more…Hello,
I have an issue with the site e-mail notifications.
I wish not to receive e-mail notifications each time someone replies to a blog post where I have also replied.
Currently, each time someone responds to this (http://www.diydrones.com/profiles/bl
Read more…Hello, I have my Zephyr ZII with an Ardupilot 2.5+. I tried to set up my parameters as best as possible but it still was not very stable, did not level very well, and the fly-by-wire function did not work at all (did not hold straight and level).
Can
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