I have a Jdrone HEX and one of the motor doesn't work anymore, I have tried to calibrate it manually but don't get any beeps.
This is what I see when I increase the throttle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtXArR6Mh10&feature=g-crec-u
It looks strange
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My quad currently has cheap HobbyWing 20A ESCs on it. It seems to work pretty well, but I have been told by some folks that I should look at the various fast ESC options - like the ones with SimonK and the like.
I have 4 HobbyKing 20A ones tha
Read more…Does anyone know if the 'relay' command toggles any pins on the APM2??
Read more…I am having this very weird problem : it seems as if rc channel6 is not being received. Mission Planner shows ch6in stays at 1500 but I am possitive the Rx is sending signal correctly (tried a few receivers). The strange part is if I unplug/plug chan
Read more…Anyone using the optical flow sensor? How well does it work? Looks like a mess to hook up, but if it works, it looks like it would be really handy.
Read more…I had my Hexcopter on the dinning room table working on a camera gimbal and I had the battery plugged in. I went to grab one of the arms to move the copter and I touched one of the ESC and it was really hot. I touch the other 5 and they were not ho
Read more…hi to all,
firstly I would like to congratulate the team of developers and all those who contribute to develop the ardupilot/arducopter
you are all doing impressive work on this project
I'm a relatively new user of apm 2.5, and i try first to integrate
Read more…After several flights with my new hexa, I've run into a problem. Motor number 3 does not spin when the others do. Long story short, I narrowed it down to something with the PDB. If I plug motor 3 directly into the APM it works fine, but if it's attac
Read more…Has any one just try this take off function on the APM, ?
Read more…We operate a fixed wing and a quad and have noticed some odd issues with airspeed.
On the X8 fixed wing, the airspeed sensor appears to be showing airspeed on the ground as it jumps around a bit, and used to work well in flight. However recently we ha
Read more…Dear Gents,
Using APM board 2.5 with software 2.65
Sensors: GPS Lea6 V1.1, Volt/amp Attopilot 90A, Speed DIY drones V20
Radio 3DR 433 Mhz
Problem:
When enabeling the speed sensor, the art. horizon starts to get unstable and the delay from action to depic
Read more…APM2 integration with a Trex-600E. As of right now I am running everything through the AerosimRC simulator before I strap it on the 600. I have played around with the plane setting a found good results. Now I am trying to get the same results in heli
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Has anyone had any success in getting your quad to have any obstacle avoidance abilities? I'm not talking about any complex pathing, but rather (at least in my case) will allow for low altitude forward flight, and if a weed or bush is detected
Hy Guys
Here is another unexplainable problem i have encountered. I have installed APM2 with latest code. Everything works perfect in Mission Planner... all sensors work well, attitude indicator moves great. But when connecting airspeed sensor and ena
Read more…Hey all, I had quite a few of the parts for the OSD already so I downloaded the source files from the diydrones store site and sent them off to be fabbed, but as a friend and I were assembling our boards today we noticed that we had boards marked V0.
Read more…I found this video over on OP - Is it relevant to Ardu ?
http://www.openpilot.org/pid-tuning/
Read more…Is there any interest in a much higher bandwidth serial data logger ? The initial plan is two versions, both about the size of Sparkfun's OpenLOG that will do what it does but actually log at ~250k bytes / sec while the other will do ~1m bytes / sec
Read more…I have bought the Next Level 500mm Hex, Hi-Power Combo with Cobra Motors[NL-500HHPCC] , I just finished building it but I have the following problem. When I turn the motors on with my radio transmitter all the motors run exept number one and two, whe
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I have been having trouble determining the antenna tracker parameters for the APM Mission Planner. I have gotten it to work within the Pololu Maestro software with the parameters:
Pan (HS-785HB):
Min: 1312, Max: 1584, Startup: Goto 1450, Neut
Read more…I have the APM 2.0 board and currently have the jumper removed. My power distribution board is feeding the input rail and I have a separate BEC feeding the output rail where the esc's are controlled (the end where the gps is located). My tilt and r
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