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• Aku Duan October 28, 2013 at 8:06am

  just want to be sure.im a beginner so i really2 need guide in this thing. hope you dont mind helping me.thanks alot k. 
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  Thomas J Coyle III October 27, 2013 at 6:35am

  @Aku,

  Yes, you can do that, but the USB connection is not designed to power anything on the APM servo output power rail such as a servo. Why do you want to run the APM on the USB connection with J1 installed?

  Regards,

  TCIII ArduRover2 Developer
• Aku Duan October 27, 2013 at 4:50am

  hye!@ Thomas J Coyle III is it ok if i connect the usb cable to the ardupilot board with jumper jp1 connected and without power module cable and gps module?
• Michael Pede October 26, 2013 at 10:55am

  Here is my log file.

  45percentLoiterFail.zip

  Just around 45% of the way through the file, I put it in Loiter.  It circles, but loses altitude.

  What happens before is other stuff, and you can see fails throughout, but this is the one I'm most perplexed by.  After this I was able to recover, but in doing so I lost sight of it a few times behind trees, so it gets kinda rough....

  https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3692866371?profile=original
• Michael Pede October 25, 2013 at 6:34pm

  I have an APM 2.5 and It's working fine in Stablize mode, but when I switch it into LOITER or RTL, it goes for the ground.

  I've reviewed the logs, and the alt_error just jumps up when I go into any of these auto modes.  I have my APM inside my plane, but it's not 100% sealed and I haven't done the cotton puff over the barometer yet as I thought it being in the plane was good enough.

  Am I on the right track for explaining the alt_error and that this is the reason the plane doesn't hold altitude on loiter?

  The ALT_HOLD_LOITER was also set to 10000cm, which was just nuts, but I would have thought my plane would go too high if that were the probelm...
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  Thomas J Coyle III October 25, 2013 at 5:49am

  @Aku,

  Follow these wiki instruction on how to power your AMP2.6: http://plane.ardupilot.com/wiki/common-apm25-and-26-overview/#APM_2...

  Powering the APM with and without J1 is explained further down in the wiki.

  Regards,

  TCIII ArduRover2 Developer
• Aku Duan October 25, 2013 at 5:05am

  hye!can some one guide me how to setting up ardupilot v2.6?i have issue here because should i connect the jumper to the board? because i want to power it using USB cable.
• hillary October 16, 2013 at 11:43pm

  hi,new here,so happy
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  Bradley J Carr October 7, 2013 at 6:51am

  Since I haven't been on here for awhile.  What is the new development of the Nitro and the APM.  Last I new vibration wasn't good.  Has there been any new developments as of late?
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  Anish September 19, 2013 at 11:44pm

  Wait till that happens to cars too ;)