Hi, I've made the same post on apm, however no one thought it was interesting enough to read, but I badly need some answers from knowledgeable people so doubling it here:
Last Sunday crash-finished my 50+ flight with the current setup. Unfortunately
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Purchased my second Pixhawk for another project and ran into a snag. I purchased a Spektrum AR8000 rx and paired it to my radio. I then connected it to the PPM and wiring bundle exactly as I have for my other UAV (Y6). I also connected it
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I get a new pixhaw yesterday and try to install it on a Hex (was an APM2.6 on it before) everything goes well if I use the USB cable to connect them with my laptop. If I start to use the 3DR original radio, the part on the lap works, but no le
Read more…Copter Specs:
APM 2.6: FW 3.1.3
Frame Type: Quad (X)
Motors: T-motor 4008-18 380kV
Props: APC SlowFly 14x4.7
ESC: Castle Creations Pheonix Edge Lite 50 Amp
LiPo: 6s 6000mAH 30C
Recently upgraded to firmware version 3.1.3 and went out to fly yesterday in mod
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I have a HK H4 quad with 13" props, AfroESCs, 640kv motors and 4s 5000mah, APM2.6+ ublox.
When I maidened the rig a couple of months ago, it went initially well except for a disaster where one of the plastic props disintegrated mid-air.. had to rep
Read more…Since I fly both APM and NAZA I really want to mention something I think would be a great asset to APM to make better videos. The upcoming Hybrid mode should get APM up to par to match NAZA GPS mode, but APM waypoint are stop and turn, this is not so
Read more…Do you have a multicopter running APM, and do you use it for waypoint missions? What do you have WP_SPEED set at? The default is 5 m/s... Anybody had luck flying up to 10 m/s or higher? How about in winds? How about with a payload? It would help if y
Read more…I am trying to finish setting up a quad in which i have ordered many different parts. At present, i am having a bit of trouble setting up the GPS, attempting to flash the ublox using the ublox center. Unfortunately i have not been able to so this suc
Read more…From my work in attempting to figure out Failsafe i see that the APM ALWAYS treats the throttle channel as the failsafe channel i.e RCMAP_THROTTLE in the full parameter list. Can i change what channel is used to determine failsafe i.e for me it is RC
Read more…This is weird. I am seeing my altitude, ground speed, yaw and vertical speed as well as my position in the Flight Data screen almost immediately after I click on "Connect" in Mission Planner however the connection popup window gets stuck at "Getting
Read more…I'm trying to get my RTF Y6 off the ground for the first time.
I calibrated the ESCs, checked motor spin, ran the calibration wizard in MP (Turns out I had to run a virtual machine on my Mac to use MP, because APM Planner wouldn't work on it for some
Read more…Not sure what this is... but i just set this up with AC 3.1.3.
This was shot in stabalize mode as i dont have a gps as of yet.
Does anyone know why i am getting this funny twitch? Thanks in advance.
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Didn't want to hijack another discussion so I figured a new discussion was best.
Where is the tuning library for ArduCopter located? I am in the final stages of building an ST800 Bumblebee and having a set of PIDs to start flying with would be really
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All my friends that flying NAZA asking me why i did not buy DJI NAZA as it work from the box.... I build my F450 based on APM 2.6 and still tuning it... Well it still fly like a boat on the sea.. Lots of oscillation etc. My friends have NAZA and
Read more…My Iris has STB_PIT_P value of over 7 and STB_RLL_P of over 10 and Droneshare flagged them as bad entries. The APMCopter manual says values of 3.0 to 6.0 are the acceptable range. I wondered if Pixhawk had a different value range and if these values
Read more…Hello all, Thought I would share my concept of LED lighting for my recently built Quad. I decided to wire up an LED strip with an Arduino mega. With the Mega board I am able to control the flashing sequence and the RGB LED's allow any color as well.
Read more…Does anyone know wtf is up with this 'uBlox 6M GPS Module V2' that i just got from RTFquads? I just set this board up and i am trying to get this all going but for some reason it isn't being seen by the APM. I tried to upload the GPS passthru to the
Read more…I have a functional ArduCopter and associated RC transmitter, batteries and charging equipment for sale. I no longer have time to fly so must unload full package for $650 (+shipping). More details and pictures at this site: http://arducopter4sale.w
Read more…I was doing some low and slow figure 8s with my 3DR quad in the park when suddenly it started a fast climbing turn, heading for points south, until it crash landed about 30 feet up in a tree:
http://www.droneshare.com/view/t7kv6k
The log shows it swi
Read more…Doing a hex build using APM 2.6 and 6S LiPo. I found this blog post showing how to not brown out the APM:
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