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ArduIMU V3

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

ArduPilot Mega 2560 - ArduPlane uploads, ArduPlane HIL does not

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

To Vibrate or Not to Vibrate

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

Optimizing battery life for 3DR quad setup?

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

Error loading from APM Planner on APM1280

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

Can we save maps and use it offline?

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

red and green led on oilpan start flickering after 5 secs

All,

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

Question regarding loiter and trims

After take off, I have to trim the pitch and roll to stop the copter from flying off by itself.

Now once its reasonably stable and I go into loiter mode.

Do the trim adjustments work against the loiter?

Thanks

G

My 700-class AP/AV Rig

Hi everyone,

Ive been lurking for a while and posted a little here and there. I wanted to share my heli with you.

It's a Logo 600SE with 710 mains and 105 tails (no stretch kit needed, the blades fit great).

Autopilot is a DJI Innovations AceOne and the

FLAPS

I have flaps built into my skywalker but im not ready to connect them to the APM is it ok to just bypass the APM and hook them strait up to the RX ??

Automatic Camera Tracking Feature Examples?

Error in Mission Planner 1.0.92

Xbee 2.4Ghz Serial COM Data Corrupted

Hi people,

Can you help me on this one?

I have to xbee pro 2.4 communicating with each other, one on PC and other on Arduino Mega 2560.

I am sending data to serial port to view on Serial Monitor, but the data are corrupted, verry few data are all righ

Xbee fails with APM

We wanted test xplane simulator with xbee (2.4 GHz) 

We try to connect xbee to apm, change port com for com4 change baud rate to 56700 click on connect a pop up windows appears to indicate us the status of connection. Pop up windows indicates us a tim

Question about power supply to the board

Ok, I already know the basics of powering the board, currently I am running a 3S battery through a UBEC set at 5V, and that is plugged into one of the spare servo inputs on the APM, which in turn passes the voltage to the reciever and servos.

Except.

HMC5883L Magnetometer

Hi,

I know i'm in a minority here, but I've purchased a HMC5883L Magnetometer from DIY Drones and I've been programming a DSPic to read the values through I2C. I have the device in continuous mode, however each time I loop around to re-read the value

ArduPilot Settings for Bixler/Sky Surfer

Hi everyone,

I'm thinking about building up a Bixler/Sky Surfer for some ArduPilot hardware that I have. It's the original ArduPilot and ArduIMU, and I've got the shield as well. I've been looking around for some suggestions as to how to configure th

WP error in Auto

I had my first try at Auto yesterday. overall it went fine, but I have a question regarding one of the waypoints. I had set up 4 WPs and three of them were spot on (although after some strange paths to reach them) but one WP was missed by many meters

Ground Station setup for X8 coaxial quad copter

How can I set up the mission planner to work with X8 coaxial quad copter when this is not an option for frame configuration? Any other compatible GCS software that will work?