PDB and APM
My PDB for my Y6 has a wire that says "to APM." I also have the 3DR power module which provides power to the APM2.6 via the "PM" slot. Do I need to connect these two wires to my APM from the PDB and if so, where?
Read more…My PDB for my Y6 has a wire that says "to APM." I also have the 3DR power module which provides power to the APM2.6 via the "PM" slot. Do I need to connect these two wires to my APM from the PDB and if so, where?
Read more…I am joining the fun everyone. I ordered the kit and now I wait. I will be here a lot I am sure to make sure I get everything setup correctly.Greg
Read more…I purchased a Y6 and FS-TH9X radio separately. I was told to upgrade to ER9X firmware and given setup parameters for channels in MIXER and LIMITS menu. I'm uncertain about some of the parameters. For example, I was given three different sets of setti
Read more…I completed this weekend a conversion from 3DRobotics Hexa to Y6 configuration. During my test flight yesterday, the copter wanted to drift while in Loiter even with the Y6 parameters I downloaded.
Today I went through all mandatory flight prechecks (
Read more…Hey folks, I've damaged a motor on my Y6 and will probably have to wait a week until a spare arrives.
I've noticed that there is a Y3 firmware configuration available in Mission Planner.
Can I simply upload a new firmware, adjust the motor connections
Read more…Yup, I am still new to this. After the CompassMot test, I was putting the props back where they started, and discovered the top motor on rear/black arm (#6) was wiggling. Screws still there. So I took the top/bottom motor assembly apart, got out
Read more…After 30+ years of flying Nitro fixed wings, NiMh cars and cheep RTF helicopters I find myself lacking on the large battery LiPo side of things. With that I went to a trusted hobby shop for advice and to purchase a battery for the y6 that is already
Read more…Any of you Y6 owners have a gimbal/camera setup yet? i'm interested in seeing what you're using and how you're mounting it on your 3dr Y6.
Read more…The 3DR Web Assembly manual shows the rear ESCs stacked together. I emailed their tech support and their reply was that it is OK to do so. Now, if I can only figure out where to put all the wires. Oh yea, the PM is still hanging out. Trying to ge
Read more…I have been looking at several commercial Y- configured multicopters out there, and have noticed that most of them use the normal APC -E props rather than SF props. I asked a local drone delveloper why this was, and he answered that they have tried a
Read more…Just received my Y6 today but I'm having trouble getting the Mavlink to connect. It connected this morning on my Windows 7 machine but this afternoon when I tried to connect again it times out.
APM 2.6 Mission Planner 1.2.69 Mav 1.0
When I plug the usb
Read more…Please post your parameter files for your 3DR ARDUCOPTER Y6 here.
So far I am running stock firmware values, apart from the Rate P was changed to 0.7 after some in-flight Dynamic tuning.
Brilliant in no-wind conditions, but quite wobbly in a mild br
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