About

Gender

Male


Location

Mpumalanga


About Me:

Mechanical engineer from south africa.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Interested in drones and recently built an APM 2.5 quadcopter. Have about 1.5 hrs flight time and still have alot to learn about how APM and the MP works. Very eager to learn however!


Hometown:

Secunda, south Africa


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Albertino dos Santos replied to Gunnar Baardsen's discussion Which servo is good for 2-axis camera mount ? in ArduCopter User Group
"Hi Gunnar
I have been doing some research in this for some time now myself and unfortunately i have not come up with any clear servo to use. From what i can see, it really depends on the servo you get in terms of play on the gears/ compatibility…"
Jul 7, 2013
Albertino dos Santos posted a discussion in ArduCopter User Group
Good day allI was hoping that someone could assist with a root cause analysis of a crash i had recently. It was while the quadcopter was in RTL almost back at its launch point it suddenly started spinning and losing altitude rapidly before it hit…
Jun 16, 2013
Albertino dos Santos replied to Albertino dos Santos's discussion Thr IN vs Thr OUT exponential deviation in ArduCopter User Group
"Sorry i actually put in a screen dump of the applicable log but it looks like it is not showing unfortunately.

Albertino"
Mar 22, 2013
Albertino dos Santos posted a discussion in ArduCopter User Group
Hi GuysHad a crash today with my quad, at first it seemed like just a motor failure but after analyzing the logs it seems there is more to it.Just after the line 13500 (Stabilize) the crash occurs, as you can see ThrOUT (Red) starts to deviate from…
Mar 22, 2013
Albertino dos Santos posted a discussion in ArduCopter User Group
Good evening allI was recently flying my quad and about 6 mins into the flight it suddenly flipped and plummeted to the ground. I have had pretty stable flights in most flight modes up to that point and all of the hardware is luckily still working…
Mar 4, 2013
Albertino dos Santos posted a discussion in South African DIY Drones User Group
Hi guysI was hoping someone could perhaps help me out. Albertino here from Secunda, my quad recently fell out of the sky during a relatively stable flight and try as i might i am not able to identify the root cause. Obviously i would like to…
Mar 2, 2013