Hello
Can anyone tell me why this is happening when I only pull throttle. This started happing when I updated the quad to 2.7.1 and my remote to er9x firmware. I took this quad appart so many times to check connections that people think I have ADD. O
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Obviously I am a newbie and I am into my first built and I don't have room for a power distribution board on my frame. I have been pouring over the docs about connecting the ESC signal wires to the APM. In the instructions they allow for a power d
Read more…I just noticed that I seem to have lost the antenna on my airborne Xbee! Must have gotten torn off somehow. It's just the simple little white wire antenna. Can I just replace it with another piece of wire? What length?
Read more…In a crash a few weeks ago the diode on the mag fitted to the AMP 1 board got damaged and to the point it ripped off some PCB traces so I cant solder it back on. I have ordered a new one but though in the mean time it still might work. , I see there
Read more…How can you be sure about the Mavlink version that APM is using. Can u read it out from some parameter? If I upload Ardupilot code with APM Planner (MavLINK v1.0 ersion) is the APM code then automatically sending data in ML1.0?
Read more…Hi guys, I have a customer with strange level issue on APM 2.5... RMA or there is a fix for this?
He purchased two Arducopter kits . One flies flawlessly but there is a problem with the other.
I need your help to see what you can find in the logs...
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I have had my octorotor flying using the 2.7 version of the code and everything is going well.
I would now like to change the reference frame of the vehicle so that it is valid on a global frame. This means that regardless of the vehicle a
Read more…Starting a new thread to show what I'm working on. I'm building a new Octocopter of my own design. The goal is to use it for Aerial Photography, lifting a mid-weight camera such as a Sony Nex5. It will of course be using Arducopter for control. ;
Read more…Just wondering. Forking a conversation off from the 2.7.3 announcement.
Read more…My video quad keeps having an infuriating major anomaly and as I'm currently vacationing in a very remote spot in Southern Africa I have very limited internet access so is very hard to try debug.
The quad flies perfectly normally in all attitudes and
Read more…I have noticed in both real flight and sim modes that a high throttle setting will result in the plane going into a shallow dive that the autopilot does not compensate for in terms of straight and level flight. At first I thought this only happened
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During Loiter, my throttle oscillates rather consistantly. The tuning graph suggests that APM is responding to airspeed (as opposed to altitude) because of the frequency of the oscillations and how it relates to my target alt.
If there we
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I neglected to do the ESC calibration. what happens?; yet My quad fly stably.
Is there danger to crash my quad?
Newbie question, I have a APM2 on a flying wing but I want to move it to a normal 4channel high wing plane, I see the connection for the rudder but would like to know if the rudder takes a active part in the auto control scheme or is it just used in
Read more…Hello,
If any of you are UAV operators using drones for inspecting structures, buildings, bridges, etc. either professionally or amateur, I would really love to talk with you to hear about your experiences etc.
You can PM me here, or just email me dire
Read more…Can someone please define the following things? I'm trying to make sense of the ArduCopter code....
What is...
HIL Mode?
DCM?
gcs as in "gcs_send_message?
IMU DCM Algorithm?
AHRS?
Thanks!
Matt Christenson
Read more…After a long delay and a rebuild of my test Mavlink source quad, I'm now able to release a new version of Ardustation software compatible with the latest versions of ACM and APM.
I'm releasing the software now but also plan to provide detailed docum
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I'm new to this site, and I'm finding the forums to be very primitive and difficult to navigate:
For example:
I can't seem to find a way to search through the forums for keywords.
I can't seem to find a way to keep track of 'new' posts from the last
Read more…I could not find a documentation of all 4 jumpers of the apm 2.5, does anyone know?
Cheers,
-S
Read more…Wow, I was wondering how long it would take for this to happen:
Wonder why they didn't include the G
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