So I am interested in playing with FPV, although I am paranoid that if I fly more than several hundred feet away I will lose the signal and crash. So what I am interested in is a failsafe that will automatically trigger RTH when either direction of
Read more…I have had my ardu system for a couple months, I have it all soldered together with the GPS,
Xbee down link, Sonar sensor, air speed sensor.
I have been flying the DJI WooKong system on the Fyetech.com Y6 and the multiwiicopter.com scarab
with great r
Read more…How would you know that your IMU is busted? We sometimes have a wrong readings for the attitude of the helicopter. Do we have a software to test if the IMU has a problem?
Read more…I DL'd the Mission Planner and ran ArdupilotMegaPlanner.exe. But I just get a blank MVS 2005 screen! What have I done wrong?
Monroe
Read more…I am nnewbie and almost total noob in multicopters. Purchased APM the latest fully assembled with telemetry, GPS, barometer but without sonar yet. tried on DIY tricopter frame, have 10+ flights on stablize and alt hold. then reload Y6 on DIY frame. a
Read more…Can we view the movement of our heli (roll and pitch) in the logs? Only the yaw is shown.
Read more…Other than my grammar and spelling :-)
I'm looking at a new quad, standard config, built by owner.
Soldering is reasonable, not the the way I would have done it though.
The GPS was connected to wrong socket, on the sensor board :-(
Mission Planner connec
Read more…We really don't know what the problem is (because we just followed the setup for our heli) but everytime we reset the apm+imu, the set up requires us to set the radio frequency, or pids, or the levels, or the declination values.
Is there a way to ret
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I have a 3s 4000mAh and a 4s 5000mAh Lipo battery and would like to try out how the flight time changes; but can I just swap the battery or do I have to recalibrate the four ESCs of my quadcopter to work with the other battery?
thanks a lot
Felix
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We are currently testing the connection of the GCS and the Heli but we can't connect thru xbee communication. We could have the data and programming using the usb. Can anyone tell us whats wrong? We are using the xbee module suggested in the site of
Read more…Hello everyone, I e been testing with my quad FW 2.038, and set all PID and seems to fly well, but noticed that the throttle and is way too sensitive, down or up the quad very fast with a small stick movement. where I can adjust the sensitivity of th
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I have a bit of an issue with my copter. If anyone can give me some advice, I would be very grateful.
I am carrying a payload of about 750gram. This includes a GoPro, AV transmitter and bat pack, Xbee and landing gear. When I fly, the copter
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Can some kind person on the forum help a total newbee with the right cable plugin for a hexacopter config. I am using a seven channel futaba 6EX and R617FS receiver and need to know which cables should i attach from the receiver to the Board to ge
Read more…Well... needless to day, my ArduCopter is becoming a bit of an obsession..... Here's a video of a few of the highlights from my first flights!!
Since then I've crashed a few times trying new things and made some modifications..... I've been working o
Read more…Hi,I was trying to get my head around the code in arducopter 2.0.36 to see if I could set up an IF condition to detect if the attitude read from the IMU shows that the quad is inverted and then turn on the relay, which in turn ejects a parachute from
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I have recently started with my Ardu Copter. The build is complete, the setup with my radio (Spekrum DX7) is done (on fixed wing mode), my ESC's are calibrated. No connection problems and all seems ready to go. On doing the initial hand test
Read more…Been testing Simple mode in our indoor arena.
I assumed that it will take the position and heading when you switched on the quad as "home"
I fly around, and then enter alt_Hold in front of me with the Quad facing "tail in".
When I switch to simple mod
Read more…While setting up the Quads for my customers, I often wonder about the following (Jason, I think this my be yours).. ;-)
1. When you look at the dials in the planner, the heading is shown. Is that Heading supposed to be magnetic, or true north based?
Read more…Hi Chris,
This is not a moan, just some small things I would like to see in the next batches of quads to make an excellent product even better.
1. In the first batch I received from JDrones, all but one of the kits had bullet connectors soldered on
Read more…Hi , i plug the magnetometer face down as instructed but when we start to arducopter and arm the motors , giving throttle is totally unsafe . The quad start to oviliate like a coin on a table.Is it because it is configured to work at higher hight tha
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