As i feel a bit dangerous to test my frame with the hand grip test because there is quite a lot of power on it, (6 times 350W motors, giving more than 10 Kg total thrust) i ask myself what would be another safer method to test it.
The hand grip test
Read more…I see this cmos camera on diydrones store which looks neat and tidy..but how would you actually use this thing? It doesnt record onboard does it? Do you have to connect it to a fpv system and if so, do you have any example of what could be used?
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I got another condition with APM here. My APM is just configured with default settings in v2.23. Flight modes are just Manual, Stabilize and RTL. On CLI and flight Data, I could see the modes with the flick of AUX1/ Flap switch. But when I i
Read more…Hi all,
can somebody advice me PID values for my tricopter? It is build like this, 40cm arms.
I'm using standard APM 1.4 + OilpanV1+HMC5883, MTK16.
When in navi modes (RTL or AUTO) forward movement is too slow - around 0.5m/s. When weak wind blows again
Read more…After a week spent working on my Arducopter 2, I have still failed to get it airborne and I've broken two props already. In the interests of other people avoiding the misery I've had to go through, I'll post my lessons/experience here in a summarise
Read more…I have installed AttoPilot current and voltage sensor. I set capacity in APM Planner settings and checked that battery consumption percentage is shown correctly. However, displayed voltage is always four times lower than the real voltage. For instanc
Read more…Hello Everyone,
I'll start by introducing myself. This is my first post to the community but have been following for quite some time now and have been following the progression of multicopters over the last many years. I recently found the time to
Read more…Hello,
I received my Audustation today and assembled it. I guess I assumed the firmware would already be programmed into the chip. I should have looked closer. I see now that only a bootloader is programmed.
So I have two questions.
1) What PC a
Read more…The cow pylon video is great, but I'm confused a bit about this site.
Does he have a COA? Something else? Just ignoring the regulations?
More power to him for having the balls to put this out there, I'd love to quit my job and
Read more…I am thinking to use Pentax Optio S1 14mp camera , any body used it before for high resolution images
Specification are here : http://www.pentax.co.uk/en/digital-compact/specifications/optio-S1
reason to use it is for remote control function and light
Read more…Hi all
Im flying on 10s 22.2V battery packs, 10 000mah
How can I get to monitor th voltage on the HUD? what voltage deviders do I neee to use?
?Must say im a bit wary of connecting 22.2V to the apm.
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Hi Michael
See you've been busy again.
In the Configuration tab - PLANNER, right at the bottom, there is a new feature labelled
Load Waypoints on
SOUNDS exciting, but what does it do??
Also
On the main nav screen, the new heading/course marker lines
Read more…I am having trouble with Altitude Hold - after switching on the copter continues to rise quickly. The problem began after transferring to a new frame although I went through the process of calibrating everything and seemed to run smoothly. Stabilize
Read more…I am currently flying a "50cc' trainer with my APM. Initially it had a gasser engine in it, but we found that on the ground everything worked ok, but in the air everything went wrong. when we looked at the raw sensor data, it seemned that the lines a
Read more…Returned back from a weekend's flying, we did a total of 6 missions on sunday. In between that there was a few other times we turned the system on , connected Mavlink, and tuned PID settings.
When I was wanting to download the APM logs yesterday, i w
Read more…My problem: I can't change the selection mode in Arducopter.
I use: Mission Planer APM 1.0.64, 1.4 ArdupilotMega Windows 7 or Windows XP.
What works: When I configure my APM in plane, although the mode changes with the switch (IN8 for selection).
Read more…This is my second issue with my AC2. My previous post 'GPS prevents motors arming' describes the history of my AC setup problems.
This issue relates to the flight data feedback received in APM Planner, with Mavlink connected. Yaw and pitch feedback is
Read more…Hi forum, I'm a relative newbie in that although I bought my AC about 6 months back, I've only now started working on it.
Problem: with GPS connected my AC2 won't arm the motors/boot properly. As soon as I disconnect the GPS cable I can boot and arm t
Read more…Hey guys!
I need to know what declination to put into APM Planner.
The website says 18.8 (see attached screenshot)
But it also says the declination is NEGATIVE.
So do I put 18.8 or -18.8 into APM Planner???
Thanks :)
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I'm having trouble with the airspeed sensor that I just got. When I install it according to the wiki and enable it, I get erratic flying like it's not reporting the correct air speed. With GPS it flies fine.
Is there something I need to calibrate? Is
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