First of all Hello everyone, its great to be on the forum.
I'm new to Arducopter although I've been playing with various controllers for some time now. I'm currently developing an all carbon frame with NHP (Northern Helicopter Products) for general p
Read more…I have the 3DR quad frame with standard motors and wondering if I can use a 1800mAh Turnigy 30-40C 3cell. I know it would decrease the flight time but just wondering if there is any problem otherwise in using a smaller battery. Didn't want to start a
Read more…Hi AllI'm new to this website add forum but for a while now I have been developing an idea which will (hopefully) change the way snail mail is delivered and bring postal systems around the world into the 21st Century.I'm writing about it here as one
Read more…Nearly all the functions of the Missionplanner work with the apc220 except editting settings and some minor other upload parts don't work why, is there a hack?
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Have the current .86 mission planner for a quad. My xbee connects and I can see position data but I can't change my pid's, setups also work. I get the pid setting i wanted to change followed by "failed". Happens on all pids. Worked before.
Read more…If you want 6 flights mode with Gear and Flightmode 1,2 switch with only using one channel (CH5) the following can be done with dx8 and maybe DX7:
Go to servo set up, set Gear to 85% and 65% in travel
Go to mixing:
Select Mix 1
Select GER >GER Set rate:
Read more…Hi I see a time field in the GPS data of my AC2 log, common sense tells me this is some kind of GPS time or Unix TS but does not seem to compute, is there a way to convert the value in my log to a date?
the value is: 68098250
which converts to UTC M
Read more…I took my AC2 untis out in the field for a few weeks to film a variety of things including a live cattle drive, and some Real Estate Vids, during my last day of filming, I had a strange thing occur twice. First , I have the APM2560 w/gps w/1260MB an
Read more…I went to Hoverfly's website and I discovered that one of their Quadcopter (X8) has its propellers in a wide "V" shape, rather than the usual straight shape. Does anybody had a chance to see (or build) one of them? What is the advantages/disadvantage
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If I add the XBEE telemetry unit to my ArduCopter, can that be used for video transmission or do I need a separate TX/RX unit? -Greg
Read more…Hello all! I'm new to UAVs and thought I'd post my plans. I am working with a university to try to develop a UAV platform for research purposes. We are looking to carry a decent payload (~1kg or better) for research instruments. We are very close
Read more…In a quad configuration, if one motor fails, can it continue to fly on only 3 motors? Thanks.
Read more…Hello hardware folks,
So I have what I believe to be a hardware problem with my baro alt and compass. My baro altimeter will only ouput zero, confirmed in CLI mode and my compass will only output zero, also confirmed in CLI mode. Both chips have powe
Read more…Help, have a hexa running the latest code, only 1 of the 6 esc's will beep when I plug in the lipo, Ive gone thru manual and auto calibration, reload firmware in which the other esc's do work, however they will all not work(beep) once I plug them all
Read more…Hello everyone,
I am looking for a tutorial/documentation on tuning the AC2 PID parameters, specifically as they apply to the APM Planner, configuration ->AC2 (tab).
Any help will be appreciated!
Regards,
Michael.
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This my 3rd crash with similar way, dipping.... out of no reason. I am currently flying Y6 AC2 2.0.48. with GPS and Magneto.
My previous 2 crashes was with earlier code. My 2nd crashes happened even after i solder the connection between esc and motor.
I have gotten a lot of time in on 2.0.49 and it is clearly the best yet. My quad (mostly stock, sonar / compass working perfectly, loiter P = .15) is incredibly fun to fly. Sonar terrain following, simple mode, loitering are working like never befo
Read more…A little after updating to .49, and flying well, I started getting "failed" errors when trying to tune some para's. Just three: The "Thr Rate" box and the Roll and Pitch Rate boxes. I'm able to go through setup and everything else, change stablize
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