The first flight went pretty well, tested stabilize, moved forward, switched to RTL and it came back, flew backwards to get home, I assume thats normal, was not sure if it would turn and face me or not.
The only thing I found to me, for my preference
Read more…It looks like disarm time after landing is about 15 seconds. Is there a way to change that to 5 seconds?
I looked in the standard parms but did not see the setting.
Thanks, Ed,
Read more…I've seen serial prints are discouraged in AC3, so I am wondering if there is any good way at all to talk to a simple RX/TX device over the unused UART2 on the APM2.5 without using MAVLink.
It's a small processor listening for serial transmission usin
Read more…Hi All,
first post so be gentle with me. I have the apm 2.5 in the 3dr case on a genuine F450 frame with dji opto esc and dji 920kv motors. Now I have been learning the art of tuning and in stabilise mode in calm conditions it flies hands off, really
Read more…So first good news.
Direct replacement of my NAZA-M to an AMP 2.6 on my Flamewheel f550 hovers in the living room.
But
When I put stick forward it went back and back forward.
So I reversed the Servo and it seems fine.
But Im a little worried that when I
Read more…Hey All,
I have a FPV-Quad with DJI-OPTA 30amp ESC's and 3DR motors. This is all controlled with a APM2.6 Unit, with GPS and Telemetry. I am controling with a er9X controller with the added board for easy USB updating and programming.
Issue:
On poweri
Read more…Picture shows MP found it on COM 6, Driver loaded.
Does not show is lights green on PC module, on Air module one light green and one yellow.
Tried to load settings, Upload Firmware Local and nothing works :(
I am having trouble switching between flight modes. Everything was working well yesterday , no problem switching between 6 different flight modes.
Mission planner popped up with an update when I started it this morning and I chose to update. No idea i
Read more…I am using APM 2.6 on Quadrotor. I had couple of flights with 4 cell lipo batteries. Today when I connected 4 cell battery to battery monitor, it burned off with smoke. I removed battery monitor and tried to arm APM but it did not arm. Now I am tryin
Read more…I am currently using the Spektrum DX7s and it has worked well for me using the APM 2.5 on my hexacopter. All though, after setting up the transmitter for six modes for Arducopter and the pitch/tilt control on my camera, I am maxed on my channels. N
Read more…It seems I have to cut my red and black wire and somehow connect it to the PWM Outputs
Its dissapoinging it wont work off the AMP 2.5 to say the least
Is this the PWM? Im not even sure what it is
http://store.3drobotics.com/products/apm-power-module-wi
Read more…Getting an error trying to connect to AMP 2.6
USB Plugged in
Dropdown on Com 5 shows
Ardu Mega 2560
So I assume it sees it via USB
Select Connect and it fails
So I've got 3 3DR Quads that I would like to start using for aerial mapping and a variety of other applications which require cameras other than the GoPro. Has anyone figured a way to mount a dual axis camera mount centered beneath the quad? I would
Read more…I recieved an apm2.5 the week of March 4th 2013. After reading thru this pagehttp://copter.ardupilot.com/wiki/common-ppm-encoder-apm2x-atmega32u2/#APM_2x_Atmega_32U2_8_Channel_PPM_encoderand seeing mention of new firmware for units shipped after 3/4/
Read more…What will hapen if i fly in auto,and i switch to stabilize between two waypoints,and than switch to auto again? will it continue to next waypoint,or what?
Read more…I am a completely new to this sport? Am a tech guy so not completely lost in someways.. (but still completely lost in others :) )
I have a 3dr quad I bought ready to fly... Is my first APM quad.
I am still firmly in the fly, crash, rebuild... repeat
Read more…Hi, I want to send a single integer value from my APM2.5 (ArduCopter 3.1) back to the ground station, and I'm trying to find the simplest way to achieve it.
1) Is it feasible to overwrite a non-critical, already-defined signal (such as gps_raw_int.sat
Read more…Hi There, I am an Arduino beginner having a tough time porting a serial command from ArduCopter 2x to the new ArduCopter 3x. I am trying to send serial data out on pins 16 and 17 of my ArduPilot Mega APM2.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! In Ard
Read more…Hi,
I just started to use Arducopter and had my first successful flights yesterday. I set up my tgy 9x radio to include loiter, and return to home. Today I am rebuilding this quad to be a deadcat style.
What I am wondering is, is there anything I need
Read more…I had this earlier and somehow fixed it. I read info somewhere but cannot find it again.It hangs on a RC_7?? item.Help appreciated. Bo
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