I have a helicopter only Futaba radio. If I set the radio up as "H1" normal mode will the Arducopter work correctly? Or do I need to buy a radio that has airplane mode? Thanks.
Read more…I am having som issues with Loiter that I want to find out about. Sometimes Loiter is almost perfect on the spot, maybe drifting 1 meter or so, but I have had situations where in Loiter the copter starts circling pretty fast in a quite large circle w
Read more…With version 1.0.94 I get "This version may break advanced mission scripting" at startup.
When I try to change the Rate Pitch/Roll I get a failed message even if I move the switch to the CLI position.
Can enyone enlighten me?
Peter
Read more…Hello, I'm having some trouble with my baro. I'm running 2.0.50 taken from git.
When I'm in alt_hold at sonar altitude, it holds very well. But when I'm in baro altitude (more than 7m) the alt hold sucks. I can hear motors change speed very fast.
Her
Read more…I've been thinking about trying APM in an airplane, and looking at different planes to get. I just had the thought that I already have a few planes that I'm not using, and this one seems like the most likely candidate. It's in good shape, but hasn'
Read more…I am a first time user and setting up my mini-Telemaster. I think I have most things setup but I don’t know about XTRACK_GAIN. Reading the wiki page it says that the default is 1.0, which is 1 degree per meter. After I loaded firmware V2.251 I find t
Read more…My question is if i solder on the magnetometer for the APM and used it on a airplane instead of a quad rotor, how do I know it works or if it does anything?
The only thing in the Mission Planner is "Enable Magnetometer." Yet there is nothing that tel
Read more…Hello Everyone,
Have just joined the group have been flying various things for years and work in a large model shop in the Uk, anyway have been fascinated with multirotor so built myself a hexacopter (have never soldered so much in my life :) i done t
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I have been using xbee that has a normal wire antenna. But i thing it would give better range if i put some omni high gain antenna on on board Xbee. So i am asking you where can i buy the connector (or how it is called) that can be soldered to xbe
Read more…This is very inconvenient to me every time connecting battery and arming the copter, the board is automatically leveling (calibrate sensor) . Could we disable it?
because it is hard to have a flat surface to lay the copter and level it.
Could we do it
Read more…All i am using the apc220 telemtry with apm but i am getting errors for example when trying to wire a mission i get system exception on read. Basicly reading stuff out of my arducopter with apc220 goes great but whenever i want to write (upload) it g
Read more…Hi All,
I've bought 3DRobotics frame (few seconds ago :)). Planning to have an Android phone as the payload! Beginning to have fun as well as combine with my PhD research!
Now I want to decide, motor, esc, prop and Lipo for my quod.
I would like to hea
Read more…Dear All,
I see the above new version. I still couldn't figure out whether the above would replace part or all of the "ArduPilotMega IMU Shield/OilPan Rev-H" in the hardware kit.
I'm going to buy the APM kit, hence this curiosity.
A non RTFM answer wou
Read more…I just put together the ArduPilot Mega (2560) board and IMU shield and using the APM Planner V1.0.93, was able to load the ArduPlane V2.251 firmware without a problem.
When I decided to upload the ArduPlane HIL V2.251 SIM firmware so that I can use th
Read more…This question pertains to vibrations...
How much is acceptable? And is there a way we can test to see if the vibrations are acceptable.
Iv read a few posts and excess vibrations cause all sorts of nasties...
Thanks
G
Read more…I'm currently using the kit 3D robotics setup and I'm looking for more battery life. Completely stock I got around 5-6 minutes, and with a camera setup I'm closer to 3 minutes. This is all on 3s 2200mah 40c packs.
At what point would increasing the b
Read more…Hello, I have an APM plate 1280 and until now never had problems loading the software on my plate from APM Planner, but today I updated to v2.251 arduplane and it gives me error checking.
(upload succeeded, But verify failed: exp 10 got C at 126 976)
I
In the field I don’t have an internet connection.
I like to downloaded the maps at home, plane the mission, do the simulation and then go out to fly, can we do that?
Thanks for helping,
Itzik
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I am not sure i am having an issue. But i seem to remember that usualy when i powered my quad the red and green led would start flickering instantly. When I plug in power now it wil take 5-6 secs before it start flickering (i think it means it ha
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