After flying and shooting a waterfall here in costa rica, I saved my last battery to fly around in the other waterfall we were goinn to in Guanacaste. When we got there, there was a bunch of people swiming there, and the flight angles were just not
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My Pixhawk will not detect any RC signal what so ever, any thoughts? I'm using a X8R modules with a Turnigy 9XR with XJT module. I know this exact set up works because I recently bought I secondary Pixhawk (got completely fed up with the
Read more…I made the decision to sell my Y6B as it was too small for my needs and was just sitting there.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/321729511640?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1586.l2649
Any questions, please feel free to ask!
Cheers,
Joel
Read more…I will not get into it tonight (long work week), but any ideas as to where to start looking to fix this? Cable is connected, by the way...
Read more…Just a noob question; how much vibration is acceptable? Here is the chart from the last flight... Is this OK?
I noticed during the last few flights, I noticed that the sonar altitude was not working adequatly. I started doing research, and looking at the logs, it seems I have too much noise, and looking at the current position, it is obvious (I think) that
Read more…Here's the deal; yesterday, while shooting this video, I noticed my telemetry and FPV video keep going out after I get the Y6 100~150 meters (a meter is about a yard, for our American friends). I am using the standard whips antennas that come on the
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I noticed an issue when using auto tune in 3.2 / 3.2.1. Basically on the two occasions I enabled channel 8 to switch into auto tune I had real problems getting off the ground without tipping / yawing.
The first time it happened I had just upgra
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Just have my first crash with my Y6 RTF...do not know exactly what happens, I INITIALLY MAKE TWO SMALL FLIGHTS IN LOITER AND IN sTABIL, with no problem, the same for launching and returning back to the soil, then I load a small mission , using
Multiwii Scarab Y6 copters have a 3 degree "twist" on their motors. Dihedral is now popular on flat hexas/octos and quads (not sure about x8 coaxial).
So I'm wondering if there are advantages to angling the front motors on a Y6. I know it's been discu
Read more…I have just tested my y6 in flight ,
Controller pixhawk
Esc afro 30a
Motors multistar 4220 390
Bat 4s 5000
All up weight 2.9 kg
Prop CF 15" x 5.5
I have identified a problem that is lack of final RPMs., thinking that it a maybe a tunning problem , I tryed
Read more…the options I have as of now are:
Zenhuse 3d
DYS Smart3
Walkera G-3D
Quanum Q-3D
Xcam A10-3H
Feiyu Tech FY-G3 3-Axis
The main issue I keep reading on most of them is quality issues. With any of these, I would use with the GoPro Hero 3, and I would need to
Read more…So, I took the Y6 out for a spin this weekend, and i am now having some issues with the Y6 keeping steady on the yaw axis. It is actually wondering, and the rudder stick input is not correcting enough. Any ideas as to what it may be? I already rec
Read more…Just came back in from my first flight of my 3DR Y6, and I am happy to report 3 consecutive successful flights. To be honest, it was not the first attempt (I tried that in Panama before I moved to Costa Rica, and it was a failure due to a bad ESC th
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I recently ran into a reoccurring problem with my original pixhawk I purchased from a Canadian distributor, and since day 1 I have consistent RC connection issues, although I did manage to resolved the problem with a ppm encoder after ma
Read more…I've been messing with this copter for a few months now. The biggest setback has been ESC issues with KDE 2814XF-515 motors. Doing it over again, I'd bite the bullet and buy the $$ KDE ESC's made specifically for their motors.
After 4 different ESC's
Read more…Please Help! Flashed my pixhawk with updated APM Planner (2.1.15) firmware and now can no longer receive any Transmitter signal, when it worked perfectly previous to flashing I had just done a esc calibration with no issues what so ever...Using X8R w
Read more…So, I finished buiding the Y6 today. Tried to do the setup, but for some reason, only APM will recognize the Pixhawk, but Mission PLanner will not. Normally it would not be an issue, since I could just use APM, but mission planner is the one that h
Read more…My Y6 Kit should be shipped next week, and I have been reading quite a bit online.
I ordered it along with 3DR's FPV/OSD setup (I plan to replace the camera with one I have with pan and tilt, and maybe use this headtracker later on) with the cloverl
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Just switched over all my motor rotations and esc locations on the pdb for the Y6B config,
Now my question is in APM planner on OS X all I can see if the one Y6 frame type but showing the Y6A config with the rotation flip no the rear motor
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