Hi All,
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…Been using ArduCopter 3.1 and i must say that i love the precision of altitude hold mode, the new drift mode and the ROCK solid loiter. So I just wanted to send a personal thanks to all the developers who made this possible.
I shot this entire video t
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
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I am wondering if the arducopter SW calculates the offset the MPU 6000 has relative to the middle point of the APM 2.5 board?
If not I would rather mount the board in a way that the MPU 6000 is in the center of gravity / center of motor diagonals a
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…Hi Guru's,
i would like to implement my own LED switching code dependent of the relative heading from home.
(To save energy by switching off the invisible LED's!)
Are the userhooks suitable for this? Are they still called/workong?
Or is there a better su
This may be a double post, cannot locate my initial oneI am familiar with APM and have been using solely Pixhawk now. I have received my first Octo, Iron man 1000In General should I be Lowering or Raising the PID's for initial lift off and tuning/ au
Read more…Hello drone fellows!
Can someone help me?
Id like to get the 3d robotics x8 multirotor measures:
-Motor to motor distance
-Dimensions for the central, top and bottom plates
Please! I hope someone can help , its for a school project! Hopefully i can start
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I bought my new Pixhawk and I just received today, but I placed this order a long time ago and I bought the one with the power module instead of the GPS/Mag combo from the link below needed in order to have navigation capabilities:
Read more…I just built a Tri copter and everything is working but It starts to oscillate very badly while hovering like a see saw back and fourth on the roll axis I think its a gain setting but I am not sure which gain...
running ac 3.1
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…I am trying to use Channel 8 to turn my sonar on and off when connected to the mission planner i can see that the switch does work. But the Sonar does not turn on and off when switched when testing it it works even when switched off.
I thought that th
Read more…Has anybody tried the new Drift mode in 3.1 whilst flying in fpv.
I can find no video's of members experience with this combination. Plenty of Drift mode video's but none showing if the mode is really suited to fpv ?
We have a quad 2.6 with FatShark p
Read more…Hey all, been looking at these forums in building my quads for a few years now, very useful and great developments.
Just wanted to share and possibly get some light shone on one of the issues I'm having currently.
First some stats on my current quad w
Read more…Tricopter Frame "X"
Firmware 3.1
GPS Ublox NEO (third Party)
Futaba 8FG
I took my tricopter today for a test on Alt_Hold and STAB.
Copter flew ok under light wind for 1-2 minutes then I noticed that my ROLL and PITCH got switched mid flight. When I tried
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
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