What's the difference between "auto trim" (selectable with channel 7) and "in-flight levelling" (enabled by arming for 20 seconds)?
I assume that the latter is used to let the ArduCopter learn about its center of gravity and other factors that affect
Read more…Now the following has happened to me quite a few times with different codes. Latest code I've tried is 2.1. APM is version 1:
I'm hovering in stable mode. In flight, the quad just tips over and crashes. After that, one of the motors is squeaking loudl
Read more…It has been for ever since I last came on this site but finally I have purchased myself a quadcopter and wireless FPV system. My video set up is a 900mhz Range Video RX and TX with a KX191 colour camera. Now my problem is the reception, I have done t
Read more…One of my esc's isnt working. I used a multimeter on the cables going to the motor and no luck. The other 3 esc's has measurable power when turning up the throttle.
Its the signal cable that tells the esc to give power out through the 3 phases?
How can
Read more…I found many antenna advertised as "GSM/CDMA cellular antenna" over at sunsky-online. Looking at their specs, they seems to work in the XBee range. Might be a good piece to extend Xbee range if you could connect them together.
One particular thing I f
Read more…I am not able to run Mission planner installed .net 4 but when i run it say initialization error am running XP service pack 3 any Suggestions.
Read more…I'm trying to download the logs from my ArduCopter with APM1 and ArduCopter 2.0.55. I'm following the directions in http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/AC2_Logs , but the log dialog in Mission Planner shows no logs.
If I enter "logs" in CLI, noth
Read more…Hello, I am into falconry and at this time use kites or helium balloons and spectra line to raise bait weighing about 200 grams. The training involves increasing the height the falcon goes to retrieve the bait to about 1500 ft.
The problem is in ear
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I have spec'd out the ideal parts I'd like to use on my (very near) future quad. What do you think? I'd love opinions, suggestions and a good hard critique of my shopping cart and plans.
Like most people I'm looking for the components with t
Read more…is the throttle supposed to be erratic while in AUTO what gains should i adjust to fix this ?
Read more…most of my pictures are coming out like this the camera is an Pentax Optio S1 14MP i cant figure out if its the camera or vibrations any help is appreciated thanks.
1. Is it possible to record video in mission planer?
2. Can lat long be displayed on video to eliminate OSD?
3. Can we customize the mission planer to display video in separate box or toggle between map or video?
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can any one tell me where i can get a electric mechanics for a super scale helicopter?
Read more…A search didn’t reveal anything along these lines so bear with me if this has been hashed out before.
The auto-flight systems that have been developed by this community are nothing short of fantastic. Unfortunately, unless just flying for the fun if
Read more…I have noticed in the forum a number of people advising the connection of ground (negative power) of all their ESCs to the APM. In some cases some people are also connecting multiple 5 volt lines to the APM in the hope of providing redundancy of the
Read more…I think my IMU shield died. It was working ok the other day but now the ABC LEDs never flash and the MAVlink won’t connect. I confirmed the switch position but it won’t work.
I have manual control but other modes don’t work any more. In other than man
Read more…Hi all! Inside the "define.pde" i've found "#define OCTA_QUAD_FRAME", but i never found the connection to APM of the 8 motors in this configuration.
I try to convert my heavy Octo-X to Octo-X4".
I am in the initial stages of tuning my new airplane. I got FBW_A mode working after adding a little more pitch comp. I tried the FBW_B mode for the first time today and the throttle was not smooth. This is a fairly high powered airplane (GP Escapade
Read more…I have calibrated my 4 ESCs from my 3DR kit on several occassions, mostly via the manual method, but they seem to intermitently indicate that they need recalibration.
I turn on the copter and sometimes, all 4 ESCs initialize nominally, but other times
Read more…Hi all,
Was testing APM again today.
Needed my plane to loiter with a radius as small as possible.
Set it to loiter at 10m height and 10m radius in Mission Planner.
Managed to loiter at 10m altitude, but the loiter radius was observably larger than 10m
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