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APM channles output problem

Hi All:

I am a newbie and building my first arducopter.

I connected receiver to the APM and the APM to the power distribution board as in the wiki.

No matter how I move the transmitter's stick, there is no response from the motors. There are

Started by Yucong Lin

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Unable to adjust ANY PID setting! (what´s going on here...?)

Hi guys,

I am struggling with my first ArduCopter hexa project and right now I feel a litte down-hearted about my progress (lack of).

I have been able to fly it decently in Stabilize mode, but it´s oscillating in roll axis so there is definitely some

Started by Tomas Soedergren

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Unable to enter values in Planner/Config/Setup/Battery tab

This is a copy from a Ground Stations thread where a user reporded unable to enter anything into the parameter fields in the battery tab.

- I experience exactly the same problem!

Though I am currently using Mission Planner 1.0.82 and APM fw 2.0.49.

I ca

Started by Tomas Soedergren

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weird radio input

Hi Everyone:

I am a newbie. I am using a turnigy 9x transmitter and receiver.

I tried to set up my radio of my arducopter. I came to radio input of APM setup. I moved my rc sticks but found:

when I moved the stick assigned to roll. The yel

Started by Yucong Lin

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Editing APM_config.h and upload file

Hi all,

I'm starting with my quadcopter project and yesterday i had my first fly without crashing :)

Now I’m trying to install an AttoPilot sensor to measure both current and voltage following the instructions in the page:

http://code.google.com/p/ardup

Started by Filipe Feijão

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Hardware sensor filters - to use them or not?

I am currently putting together my first Arducopter hexa and as I am going through the manual wikis I am slowly realizing that everything might not be fully updated to reflect status of current hardware and firmware.

Reading the instruction it seemed

Started by Tomas Soedergren

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Fly Mode Problem

I'am having trouble and need help with setting flight modes with the TGY9X .

I set channel 5 on the radio menu to (GEAR) and when I switch the (GEAR) switch - I can get two modes of my choice and not three. I have been experiment with modes using the

Started by Tom Petruzzelli

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Why using RC transmitters?

During a sunday picnic, I was thinking about new design of ArcuCopter.And I asked myself:"Why shall we continue to use RC transmitter consoles? Couldn't we use a computer, or an iphone in the ISM band? We will have all-in-one architecture: FPV,comman

Started by giu

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trouble with quad X on 2.0.47

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

Started by nubli hashim

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APM Mission Planner intermittent stuck in liunx

Hi Every one:

I connected the APM (with IMU shield and GPS) to my desktop via USB.

I launched it with mono. There are intermittent stucks.

For example, in Flight Data, sometimes when I move and rotate my board the sub-windows show the flight

Started by Yucong Lin

1 Reply

About type ( HELI, ACRO, GLID ) selection for transmitter.

Hi everyone:

I am going to use a Turnigy transmitter to control the arducopter.

Which of HELI, ACRO, GLID shall I use to control the arducopter?

If it is HELI, which of the five sub-type shall I use?

I am new. Thank you in advance.

Yucong

Started by Yucong Lin

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Project Help?

Hi! I'm new to ArduCopter and I really want to use it for my HS project.

My Project:

Focus on motion tracking using a GPS-IMU fusion method. Place a GPS on say a helmet and then have a person put it on and walk/run around a football field. The GPS woul

Started by azngundamrx782

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new to arducopter

hi im new to arducopter and i want to know how to begin with?

Started by Aditya.Desai

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Radio Trims Behavior

Sorry for the posting this again here but does anyone know if radio trims are taken as the "centers' when entering into auto-pilot modes(Auto, RTL, Loiter)? I've been testing my quad for a past couple of days with and without trims, entering into eit

Started by Ihab Ali

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New to ArduCopter and trying to simulate using FlightGear

I'm interested in simulating the flight of a copter as the QuadHil tutorial demonstrates, but I want to use it either without any hardware in-the-loop or with a small Arduino in-the-loop. The idea is to use the firmware of ArduCopter together with a

Started by Rowan Waffles

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Can we install ArduCopter_2_0_43 on linux?

Hi everyone:

I went through internet and found that windows is necessary for the installation. Can we install it on linux? Did anyone work through it?

Thank you in advance.

Yucong Lin

Started by Yucong Lin

1 Reply

Logs

Can we view the movement of our heli (roll and pitch) in the logs? Only the yaw is shown.

Started by Marianne Antonio

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Faulty System, suggestions appreciated.

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

Started by Gustav Kuhn

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hints for basic good pids for hexa (+) with 880kv , 12" props and v 2.0.40 loaded

Hello !

I just finished setting up my all new arducopter hexa with 880kv motors and 12" props;

I also loaded 2.0.40 (and we are already at 2.0.42, which i will load any soon) and would like to have a good start with my pids so i can finetune further qu

Started by Rlife

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Can you guys take a look at my preparing list and questions for my first arducopter? Thanks

Hi Everyone:

Sorry for the long list. But I am totally new to arducopter. The following is what I conclude from web searching. Please take a good and give your opinions.

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APM channles output problem

Unable to adjust ANY PID setting! (what´s going on here...?)

Unable to enter values in Planner/Config/Setup/Battery tab

weird radio input

Editing APM_config.h and upload file

Hardware sensor filters - to use them or not?

Fly Mode Problem

Why using RC transmitters?

trouble with quad X on 2.0.47

APM Mission Planner intermittent stuck in liunx

About type ( HELI, ACRO, GLID ) selection for transmitter.

Project Help?

new to arducopter

hi im new to arducopter and i want to know how to begin with?

Radio Trims Behavior

New to ArduCopter and trying to simulate using FlightGear

Can we install ArduCopter_2_0_43 on linux?

Logs

Faulty System, suggestions appreciated.

hints for basic good pids for hexa (+) with 880kv , 12" props and v 2.0.40 loaded

Can you guys take a look at my preparing list and questions for my first arducopter? Thanks

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