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  Troy Fardell June 28, 2012 at 12:48am

  Off-centre APM2???

  Guys I have intended to mount the APM on the side of my fuselage...its a wide plane the X8 flying wing. I know smack over the CG is the ideal but I was hoping to use that real estate for batteries etc. So if the right hand edge of the APM2 is 4 inches from the centre line will it be a problem? Would there be a response lag time? If it was out on a wing I image there would but 4" .

  Thanks for any advice
• Richard May 29, 2012 at 6:49pm

  -eagle, no I didn't see those posts. Thanks for sharing. I will check them out.
• Richard May 29, 2012 at 7:54am

  To All:

  First, I hope this is the place to be posting this, if this is not, I am sorry in advance...

  I have a question about Arduplane... I see that Arducopter is getting worked on (updated) on the regular and I haven't seen anything about arduplane being worked on nor updated... I do remember a while back Chris or someone had stated they were moving in a direction that would make it easier to code and add code and the like... What is the status on this? is arduplane even being worked on, bugs fixed, or anything? or is it just being ported so you can add scripts for loops and weird flying movements? IMO i think it would be easier and best to have  and APM that has enough memory that you can have just one source code that works for all so there wouldn't be this old/obsolete/current/alpha/beta stuff...  and the look here and then look over there routine...  The best solution is to make everything in the end, PLug-n-Play as best it can be...
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  steve May 29, 2012 at 4:51am

  M mine it was the capacitor I ave on the 5v line. I know others use that too in case of power brown out but in my case it definitely causes some problem with the apm. If I wait longer ten its ok or I just unplug the capacitor before turning on.
• 100KM

  Hein du Plessis May 28, 2012 at 10:15pm

  @F11music.com - I had the same problem. Turned out I have to first power it up *then* plug in the voltage monitor. If you have one...
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  steve May 28, 2012 at 3:27pm

  Found the solution just after writing. :) I have a capacitor bank on it that gives me about 5 seconds of power and I guess it was holding some residual power and keeping some things alive on the board? Just a guess but when I pulled it and restarted, all was fine again :) Bug?
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  steve May 28, 2012 at 3:25pm

  I thought things were working and then something happened that I remember happening a few times with my skywalker. I've even seen it with my quad. The problem shows up as a super slow response to movement in stabilize mode. You move the plane and can see the changes happening in the mission planner but in a very delayed way. The servos respond the same. I just can't remember what to do to solve it. I've restarted, reinstalled the firmware. All other functions work but the stabilization is in super slow mode. Does anyone know the solution to this?
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  Brandon Jones May 28, 2012 at 1:15pm

  F11: Nice! I just didn't want to assume your aircraft configuration, but yes, if it is a stock ZII then you'd want to configure for elevons...
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  steve May 28, 2012 at 12:35pm

  I finally got it working. On my radio it's called delta and I was setting it to flaperons thinking that was elevon. Now it's on delta and working in stable and manual.
  
  Vast303: I didn't know you could fly it without setting to elevon. How would you control the pitch?
• 3D Robotics

  Chris Anderson May 28, 2012 at 7:22am

  F11: The instructions in the manual are here. Basically, set your TX to elevon mode so it works in manual. Then do a RC setup in the MP, and check the "elevon" checkbox, so it will work in auto modes, too.