Hi all.
I've been testing the effect of different cruise airspeed settings on power consumption, but in the range that I've been testing (8m/s, 9m/s and 10m/s) it has almost no effect on actual airspeed (or power consumption).
I've been flying a lap a
Read more…I just hooked up my 3DR radio units and the link was great, then disconnected and reconnected and the link stopped, now, one unit will not connect or update in any way.
It blinks green and red when connected to the apm, but only blinks green and very
Read more…Hi, today I had a flight with my quad and everything was fine. Landed and changed battery, after that the APM was not powering up anymore. I did a full check and I discover that the APM is not sharing the power between the output power rail and input
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I'm pretty new to arducopter and my second copter has a Octa_quad X frame.
I have changed the apm_config.h with the frame parameters.
my problem is now that i don't see any radio input after i compiled and uploaded via arduino.
did i miss something a
Read more…Hi,
I want to buy an ESC with 25-30A and 6s(or at least 5s) rating that has a fast update rate (i.e. 400Hz) and works well with APM (i.e. no sync or start up problems).
Is it worth to buy the optical isolated type ?
Could you please recommend what to bu
Read more…Hi everybodyyyy…..
More alt/hold questions. I have quadcopter with APM2.5 running 2.91
Here 2 graphs 1 with moon gel 1 without .
This is with moon gel
This without
Does the graph with moon gel look OK ?
And if it does look ok can
Read more…Hi,
as I found no "LED_MODE" parameter in ArduPlane 2.70, I assume, ArduPlane does not support external LEDs and beepers?
Are there any plans for that?
-S
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Just got mi MinimOSD and got immediately the overlay but no video from the cam.
Ok switched to NTSC no success.
Powered the OSD just with the APM conector, no success.
Power the hole OSD with 12v, no success.
Still no video Image but the overlay
Read more…With all of the bad press "Drones" have been getting lately I was thinking someone should come up with a catchy name for all of the "other drones". The good drones that, hopefully, someday will be assisting scientists and engineers to do their jobs
Read more…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
Read more…Hi,
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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