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  Bill Bonney July 24, 2013 at 11:21pm

  @leonard: see https://github.com/diydrones/ardupilot/tree/master/libraries/AP_Opt...
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  John McGrath July 24, 2013 at 8:49pm

  @SirPent Did you check your com port settings in your control panel and on Mission planner?
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  iskess July 24, 2013 at 12:12pm

  @Mark,
  Go to this thread: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1820773
  Read through post #6 and follow the instructions closely. If you still have issues afterwards, post on that thread.
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  John McGrath July 24, 2013 at 10:05am

  @Oliver  thanks buddy I appreciate that info. Always learning :-)
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  John McGrath July 24, 2013 at 8:21am

  Ok just brought the Hex into the shop hooked everything up again to diagnose issue and the motor works 100% i tapped on the esc etc etc.. seems to work fine.. A possible glicth with the apm? Interesting.
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  John McGrath July 24, 2013 at 8:11am

  Need a little help here. I have a month old Hexa from 3Dr. I was testing my gimbal this morning and when I when to launch one of the motors was not spinning much should I look at the motor going out or esc?  A month old not good at all.
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  iskess July 23, 2013 at 11:12pm

  Mark,
  When I said do a "reset" I don't mean hit the reset button, I meant via CLI, type in 'SETUP', 'RESET' and it wipes your board clean back to factory defaults. Then I loaded my parameters, then my GPS started working. I have no idea if this is your problem, but I had the same symptom and that's how I got it working again.
• Developer

  Bill Bonney July 23, 2013 at 8:52pm

  @mark: please go to http://copter.ardupilot.com for step by step setup instructions. I'm assuming you have the APM Power module so there is no need to use the power supply from the ESCs. This means you less likely have a brownout and a crash. If you have any further questions, raise then as a forum discussion as its much easier to discuss the particulars. Thnaks
  
  (Wow: autocorrected from setup to stupid. That's definitely not what I meant!)
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  iskess July 23, 2013 at 6:59pm

  I had a similar thing happen where the GPS wasn't bring seen. I swapped out with another GPS and that didn't help, so I knew it was a software issue. I saved my parameters, reset the APM, reloaded the parameters and everything worked again.
  I'll never know what happened.
• William Shaler July 11, 2013 at 1:57pm

  Has anyone used the condition DO_DISTANCE? What exactly triggers that?