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Andrew Simpson replied to Andrew Simpson's discussion Help request for wildly misbehaving Pixhawk quad - EKF errors
"Thanks Andre, that makes sense. It looks like a genuine unit, and reports itself to Mission Planner as such, but only cost £40 from China via eBay, so who knows. Is there something obvious to look for on the board? I'll try recalibrating, but I also…"
Jun 11, 2016
Andrew Simpson posted a discussion
Hi all, I've just had two very hair-raising flights. Here is a FPV recording of the particularly bad section of the second one. Note the climb rate (middle left), altitude (top right) and artificial horizon all detaching from reality at about 15…
Jun 11, 2016
Andrew Simpson commented on Randy's blog post Copter-3.3 released!
"Hi Fnoop, thanks, I'll try posting there too.

The foam hasn't caused problems before - I previously had it mounted using the thin (3mm?) foam that comes with the pixhawk but found vibrations were far too high, especially in the z (vertical) axis,…"
Jun 11, 2016
Andrew Simpson commented on Randy's blog post Copter-3.3 released!
"Hi Randy, I wonder if I could ask for some help. Since adding a cheap gimbal, I've been seeing EKF errors, and wild uncommanded movements. I've described it in more detail, with a video and link to the logs, here:…"
Jun 11, 2016