Hi everyone,
I've been flying with a Pixhawk for a little while and probably getting away with the minimum amount of knowledge required to make it work.#
After a recent crash (which involved the Pixhawk) due to a lack of elevator authority (see the DIY
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I'm attempting to use the Serial 4/5 Port of Pixhawk to connect to it a device that outputs NMEA sentences, but is not a GPS, is a Garmin Sonar.
I want to know if there is a way to read these sentences in Mission Planner in real time.
I
Read more…I found an old MediaTek MT3329 GPS (v13?, v1.3?) that i had laying around. I am curious to know if anyone knows if this will work with a Pixhawk before I start cutting apart wiring harnesses and soldering bits to things. Im sure its not as good as th
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Built a quad frame and it was flying well on the test flights. I then completed a few missions with mission planner. On the last one I came into land flipped from Auto to Loiter to take over and land. I got 3 feet off the ground and it start
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I have recently set up a Pixhawk on a quad and the second time around a waypoint mission wanted to bring it down early in case the battery was close to being low. Just as I was switching to STABILISE mode it lost altitude and despite giving a full
Read more…Most quadcopters have motors where the propeller is situated on top and the motors pull air down and through. I am interested in building a quadcopter with the motors above the propellers. Is this simply a matter of building a frame with appropriate
Read more…Hi, I'm a bit confused by the options to run servos at 7.4V on a Pixhawk.
This warning appears on the page http://ardupilot.org/plane/docs/common-powering-the-pixhawk.html#powering-backup-off-the-servo-rail
and confirms you can do it, but doesn't offer
Read more…I have been working with my MinimOSD recently, and when I hooked this up to my monitor, I receive the data but no video. I have checked the video wire from the OSD to the camera, but this had no effect. I have gone through my configurations on the Mi
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This is my first build with a Pixhawk.
I have my Frsky receiver bound with telemetry and chans 9 to 16 available.
My question is can I get access to these higher chans in mission planner, if so how?
I have noticed if I set say RTL in extende
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I'm a relatively new Pixhawk pilot and have been flying this flight controller for about a year and a half. Last night (flying at night to try and record bats as part of a project), I set up a test auto route for a new area and flipped the pla
Read more…Is there a best way, (secret way?) to remove the switch, buzzer and other plugs from their sockets in a Pixhawk? Pulling on the skinny little wires seems like a bad idea. I've tried leveraging a knife blade beneath the plug and then twisting...this w
Read more…Hello everybody, need help with. I have pixhawk with kit 433mhz 3DR telemetry. After my attempts to change TX Power from 11(default) to max. 20. I have weird problem with connection. Now behavior is follow: timeout goes from 28 to around 20 sec and t
Read more…Have, by any chance, skid steering stopped working?
I used it a lot last summer but when the spring finally has started to come, here in the north, it was time for testing.
Everything looks OK i MP and my sticks changes Throttle and Roll but nothing co
Read more…I just received my new -Fake- Pixhawk from Bangood today and this is what I did:
1: plugged in the buzzer, arming button and GPS/compass unit and plugged it in the USB port of my PC to check it out in MissionPlanner (1.3.3)
It seemed to work perfectly:
Read more…A major supplier of 3DR products here in the UK has just informed me that Pixhawk will not be re-stocked as it is being discontinued. I've heard similar rumblings elsewhere but then others say they are just false rumours. Any thoughts from anyone on
Read more…I have researched myself to death on this one and cannot find a solid answer. I am thinking it is due to the GPS not having acquired its position fully, but here is what I am facing.
I power up the Pixhawk and let it go through initialization. I arm
Read more…What is the correct way to connect the AttoPilot 180A ground wire without causing a ground loop when using two separately fed 6Ss into a PDB while only sensing one of the packs (I only want to monitor 1 pack)? Pixhawk is powered via the top power por
Read more…I am pretty new at this, and don't have any experience with Pixhawk. I have been trying to set up my servos with my Pixhawk, but am not getting any response from the servos. I am flying a flying wing and trying to set it up so that I can switch from
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