Hello,
I just experimented a few days ago with my first pixhawk board to calibrate ESCs automatically (all at once).
Normally this works by the following steps:
1- turning on you transmitter, throttle up to max
2-Plugging in your battery (the board then
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Anyone succeeded to install external LEDs on Pixhawk?
On APM we could configure the param Led_mode to a binary value representing which actions turn LEDs on A5 and A6.
Is there an equivalent feature on Pixhawk? Found nothing in the wiki about it.
Thx
Read more…Yesterday I received the PixHawk I ordered on January 2nd. Four week delivery time is pretty good for a new FC from 3DR!
But I've had all kinds of problems trying to use it. First I tried using the USB connection to a Mac (running OSX 10.9.1) and alt
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Managed to get my beast stable now when flying in Loiter and in Altitude Hold but I have noticed that in both of those modes, as soon as I start flying laterally, I lose altitude... significantly. Can anyone help me stop this from happening? M
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I've got a very powerful quad build going on here and have finally managed to get it flyable in Stabilize. After AutoTune failed to tune it to a point where any significant roll or pitch commands would prevent it from "flipping out", I have lo
Read more…Hi everyone,
I had a pretty bad crash happen on Xmas eve that pretty much totally destroyed my Quad.
So much so, it has taken until today to bring it back out try and find out what happened.
It was flying just fine in loiter & stabilize mode on the same
Read more…This is getting where I can no longer even test in my back yard at all, 30 minutes and hdop is still 2.7 I cant get below 2.0, usually its about 2.7 at my house. This is a new issue that seems to have started with 3.1
Randy mentioned a battery may h
Read more…Hi, this question is not specific to APMcopter, but still in the same field of multicopters :)
I currently have an rce- tricopter http://rcexplorer.se/projects/2012/07/the-tricopter-v2-6hv/ (running on 3s)
with DT750 motors swinging 1147 gemfans at a
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I am building a quad with a pixhawk fc. Pixhawk does not support normal PWM receiver inputs. Therefore I need to get a PPMsum compatible FrSky receiver.
The last X8R frsky receiver does not support PPMsum.
So my question: which frsky 8 ch receiver h
Read more…APM 2.6 UBlox - Firmware v3.1
b) Motors spin when armed
This does not happen for me but its set to 70 and no spin at all
Should I bump it up?
e) more pre-arm checks
I get this error all the time since 3.1, even out in the field I fly all the time far from
Read more…Built a new stand for my 3DR Telemetry and Galaxy S III
The Telemetry module is not floating, its on a piece of plexiglass mounted to the phone and antenna.
Stabalize works great, hauls butt etc
Loiter is slow like traveling thru molasses
Any way I can make loiter more like stabilize flight.
Nothing crazy now, just a little closer to the stabilize "feel" all around, I know I can get Alt Hold but then it can
Read more…Hi, I'm programming over APM 2.6 firmware version 3.2, I'm now unable to connect MISSION PLANNER 1.2.92, then select the type of installation Quad copter firmware tab and download the hex file I get the error message encountered NO connection. Please
Read more…All I need now is a FLIR
Thanks everyone for all your help...especially Randy!
- TBS, APM 2.6
Read more…hey everyone! I am a novice apm copter user coming from KK2.0. I have an rc explorer tricopter which I decided to convert to apm 2.6 piloted drone. However I struggle just to stabilize the copter. for some reason it tends to drift to the left. I trie
Read more…Does the APM really have to be in the center of quad?
Reason I'm asking is TBS added a dampening system to the gimbal and I need to move the APM off to one side because of its size about a half an inch to the left, is that okay or will it mess things
Read more…My new TBS sinks at mid stick in Stabilize, fine in Loiter.
Problem is when I change between the two the quad sinks or rises pretty quick between the two.
Autotune is complete and went extremely well.
Would increasing one or more of the throttle PID be
Read more…I am using my APM 2.6 wGPS from an old build
I did a reset and upgraded to 3.1
But now it hovers okay in stabilize, not perfect but worse is that if I go to loiter it wants to drift off and toilet bowl really bad, wide circles.
This is a proven GPS and
Read more…I was designing a hexacopter just to kill time on ecalc. After some googling i managed following interesting result .. just want to know is this setup practical ??
link : http://www.ecalc.ch/xcoptercalc.htm?ecalc&lang=en&cooling=2.5&rotornumber=6&weig
Read more…I have started a new build, this time a TBS Disco Pro.
Wanting to know if there is anything others have had and if there are any known issues I should be aware of.
Here is my APM location.
