I did a small test mission last weekend and found the GPS navigation accuracy was quite poor. I've attached a screenshot showing the actual path taken compared to the WP path it should have followed from WPs 2 to 9. The speed was set to 5 or 6 m/s.
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3dr Y6
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MOT_TCRV_MAXPCT 93 Set to the lowest pwm position tha
Read more…I have a 2013 Y6 with the old style motor collets with rounded nuts that are tightened with a 2mm hex wrench. I had a crash earlier this year when a prop flew off mid flight despite me having checked the nut tightness prior to flight. Since then I ha
Read more…When building the y6 with upgraded motors, 35a esc using the px4 do the individual esc's need a bec on each?
Read more…I have a 2013 Y6 I built from kit. I have always found the PDB board ESC signal wires to be problematic. They are quite fragile. At one stage three of them broke off at the board. I managed to solder them again but they are close together and there a
Read more…Has anyone flew long missions with their Y6? I'm planning a 3.8 mile flight mostly above straight roads, and will follow in the car.
A few questions:
1) What is the maximum advisable speed to fly for the most efficiency? I've been using 12-15 m/s.
2) Th
Read more…We are using pixhawk with 3dr Y6 frame 2014 configuration. After arming, when we gradually raised the throttle, we find that the speed of the motors fluctuated, sometimes low and sometimes high. After we have raised the throttle above the midpoint, i
Read more…I laid out the power system for my Y6 according to the 3DR docs, which means I have ESCs for motors 2 and 5 sandwiched between the body plates, with the other 4 zip-tied onto the outside of the plates, spanning the gap between them. All my bullet con
Read more…Hi,
My first post here. I've been searching the forum for info on this, sorry if I've missed something.
I have a 3DR Y6 2013 DIY [1] that I've been flying for about a month, very happy with it so far. When I bought it I expected (naively) that I'd be
I have my PDB connected to the power module via XT60. I have the APM connected to the PDB via the 6-position red and black cable.
I have an extra red and black 2-wire cable with JST connector coming from the PDB. It's not currently connected to anythi
Read more…So I have 9 flights under my belt.
First one resulted in a light crash, flip on landing, that resulted in a broken mast. Replaced the mast and everything was perfect for flights 2 and 3.
Flights 4, 5 and 6 I found that I could not "arm" the system wi
Read more…When I ordered my 2014 Y6 (fully assembled) I purchased the full OSD/FPV kit and FPV monitor from 3D Robotics. To avoid any issues.
Have it set up where I am using the "dual" receiver on the Monitor, not the receiver that came with the kit.
Well, to
Read more…Does anyone have any practical experience with the compass not using the mast? Just having it sit on the top deck? I keep breaking the mast and at $10/ea, it is not a practical part. I'm going to do a compassmot test later tonight or tomorrow.
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To continue my constant battle to get my Y6 going (which is literally becoming a living nightmare, that I'm beginning to regret purchasing more and more each day with all the constant problems).
So upon upgrading software I ran into many i
Read more…I am sorta new to this whole drone thing. I have a y6 with a apm 2.6 it was a RTF kit from 3dr and i am having problems with it completely stoping my motors and it dropping out of the sky. I do have a tarot 2d gimbal and i have attached to that an ol
Read more…Well, the last weeks I was trying to assemble a 3D Robotics Y6, I could do it, I had to downgrade the APM to 2.9 because the I2C voltage was 5.0 volts and MP showed the message: Bad Gyro Health, but when I arm the motors they didn't work fine.
I'm not
Read more…This was probably answered, but tonight I used Auto Tune on my Y6. I noticed after doing it there is a box checked 'Lock Pitch and Roll Values'. What is that for and should it be checked?
After a few weeks of frustration and noob mistakes, I'm really
I have the flying down pretty good with about 2 dozen successful manual flights and missions, but one thing that's been bothering me in the build manual is this section on 'backup power'.
One the one hand it says the zener diode is best but not requir
Read more…My 3DR Y6B has gone through several APC 10 x 4.7 props, no fault of the props. I've had several good flights now with no broken props so would like to experiment.
Does anyone know or have a recommendation for good quality CF props to replace the SF an
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I managed to get out into the field for the second test run with my y6 tonight, and once again it crashed.
This first crash I do believe was my own doing as the grass was to tall for lift off and also a prop not came off loosing a prop, al
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