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Payload Integration

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

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IMU Shield Broken

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

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Unsteady Throttle

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

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ESCs in and out of calibration

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

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Minimum loiter radius

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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GoPro "jello"

I mounted my GoPro Hero2 to the top of my 3DR frame using the standard mount and the resulting video was unusable- complete jello. So then I used tripod adapter with the camera and a 1/4-20 bolt to the top and still had unusable jello in the video.

Is

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ArduPilot Mega Dimensions - Updated

Hello,

I am having problem finding the dimensions of ArduPilot. I read in one of the Forum Discussion that i can get all the dimension from Eagle Files (.brd). I have downloaded the Eagle software and open the .brd file. Because of my poor Eagle Softw

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APM Power backup

Iv been thinking. What happens when you're in the middle of a flight and your ESCs BEC kicks it.

All power to the APM is lost and so is your craft.

Even if you use a stand alone BEC, you suffer from the same problem.

Has anyone had a crash due to APM po

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APM Not Following GPS Waypoints

I have the HIL firmware loaded and I am flying the plane manual in X Plane simulator. I grab the Home location and draw a quick square set of waypoints about 200m altitude. However, once I switch to Auto mode, the plane doesn't follow the gps waypoin

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