Hi all just a quick introduction to introduce myself and my quadcopter, I have a TBS discovery frame with arducopter 2.6 with externalCompass and GPS, turnigy 30a ESC's, Turnigy 1000kv motors and some nice balanced 10x5 carbon props! I have some know
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i want to figure out if my 3dr voltage monitor is working correctly
I complete a test with 2 of the EXACT same 5000 mah 3s lipo batteries.
I have a cheap low voltage alarm on the battery also. I launched to about 4 metres high and engaged loiter
Read more…Today I was testing the Alt Hold and Loiter modes. When I switched to Loiter for the first time, my hexacopter locked into position. After Loiter, I switched back to Stabilize. Everything seemed okay. Although, when I went back to Loiter, the hex
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I was using Ardupilot1.4 board for my Quad and it was flying well. Recently I made some modification in frame and reprogrammed the board with Mission Planner 1.2.67 Version. Caliberation of accelerometer and Radio done. But I wa
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Attached are a few photos of my first setup. I'm curious what I might be able to layout a little better. I have my distro mounted directly to the X525 top plate. Above that is a piece of plexi with my rx stuck down. Above that is a shock mount
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I have both a mission planner incoherent behaviour warning and a recommandation for others to avoid what happened to me using Mission planner's flight planning tool.
As can be seen in the attached picture, I made a simple mission starting with a take
Read more…I plan to do what is called a "pull" to made changes to the custom code regarding custom shaped copters.
This change in code would only impacts irregular shaped quads, hexas, and octas when the pilot specifically opts to go custom versus the default
Read more…I'm going to do what is called a "pull" to made changes to the custom code regarding custom shaped copters.
This change in code would only impacts irregular shaped quads, hexas, and octas when the pilot specifically opts to go custom versus the defa
Read more…I can't find the APC 10x47 SF(P) Style replacement props anywhere on the website of HobbyKing. All I find is 10x4.5 and so on. The 2nd number never gets so high. Can someone explain this to me? Which ones do I need to order?
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Let me begin by outlining my situation. Since birth I'm the lucky owner of a condition called hemiparesis. It means I am half paralyzed on my left side.
However I still want to be able to fly my ArduCopter. I know it can be done,
Read more…I'm currently searching for the right AP equipment. I'm currently using a gopro 2 but will soon be getting a hero 3. I using 6 of the available 7 ch on my receiver. I would like to hear from the diydrone community on what u use or what new product
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I have a problem with my APM2 with the calibration of accelerometers use the M.P. 1.2.67, and when I do the calibration, as wiki procedures, it gives me the following error "Calibration Failed", I run both in MP mode in the CLI.
What might be t
Any parameter changes required when using the 3DR 880Kv motors with 11x4.7 props?
Any good way of tightening the prop nut? I am using an allen wrench through the nut but how do you hold the motor from turning? I wish there was a custom wrench to fi
Read more…when i fly fpv i always fly first in stabilize to about 30 metres and then enable alt hold. Works fine and makes flying fpv easy. However sometimes the height of the quad drifts to say 10 metres high and i have to switch back to stabilize and increas
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Tonight i want to test verify height on a mission. I wanted the quad to fly at 10 metres altitude so i first set this to the default altitude in the mission planner and also enabled verify altitude. Then i added 3 waypoints by clicking on the map.
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3.0.1 amp 2.5
had problems this evening .... was in loiter, moving it around a bit and then letting it hold position ...no problems, I then switched to circle mode quad banked left and kept banking left I switched to loiter the
Read more…I programmed the following mission:
It is a quad, 3DR frame, nothing fancy, APM running V3.0.1.
It executed the auto mission until waypoint 3 then I saw the quad go down in an apparent controlled manner (it is not like i lost a prop) still moving towar
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For a long time I noticed an issue in mission planner related to the wrong battery voltage measurement and display and also the issue to enter a value with a decimal in the low_volt parameter:
Here is a picture of the display in mission planner
Read more…Has anyone else experienced this? I've upgrade to 1.2.66 Mission planner, and have no firmware tab. Seems odd, but I can't figure out what's happening.
Read more…I did the live compass mot test several times and keep getting 17 17 17 and it tells me its saved the changes but it starts out 180 degree out of phase, meaning red gps heading line point out the back instead of foward. So in a nut shell, out of the
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