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Andy Hornsey replied to Ray Collazo's discussion GPS Mounting
"Off-center is fine for both the compass and the GPS.

The compass calibration should work out the offsets and sort you out on that one provided that you have the orientation correct.

The main issue that you will face is that the closer you move the…"
Oct 14, 2014
Andy Hornsey replied to Andy Hornsey's discussion APM Compass Orientation Settings
"Oh ... and you may be wondering why does he not just relocate the compass... this is my Ardu Phantom,
I want to use the stock compass in the stock location ... :)"
Oct 9, 2014
Andy Hornsey posted a discussion
Hi All,I have a question about the compass orientation in Mission Planner and inherantly in the APM once mission planner has been configured.I have a non standard compass and I want to mount it:    a) Rotated Compass Roll Left 90 degrees wrt frame…
Oct 8, 2014
Andy Hornsey replied to RICARDO CUBILLOS's discussion Tarot 2D doesn't seem to do anything
"Resolved ... boards fried, replaced and all Ok now.
Andy"
Sep 28, 2014
Andy Hornsey replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.2 beta testing
"I have had the same ...I had chunky carbon fibre props on so we were fine in terms of broken props.
The copter takes off fine in Stabilise and runs its auto mission without a problem, but sometimes with an auto takeoff the copter will roll heavily…"
Sep 7, 2014
Andy Hornsey replied to Randy's discussion AC-3.1 autotune support discussion
"This is just what we need!!! Autotune is not quite producing the results for me just yet and my Tarot 680 is twitchy twitchy twitchy!
F550 standard frame is not too bad but still needs some work - Does anyone have a good PID set for a standard F550…"
Aug 20, 2014
Andy Hornsey replied to RICARDO CUBILLOS's discussion Tarot 2D doesn't seem to do anything
"I'm struggling with my Tarot gimbals too ... I bought two and can't get either of them to fire up!!

One seems really dead, the other is a bit dead ... A few yellow flashes then flashing red, connected to the IMU side of the controller and connects…"
Jul 16, 2014
Andy Hornsey replied to David's discussion 3DR Power Module Limits
"Have you calibrated your sensors?

I would suggest checking with a quality clamp meter on the battery positive cable.
Double check the voltage on a multimeter."
Jul 15, 2014
Andy Hornsey replied to Andy Hornsey's discussion Possible Bug? Compass Calibration Failing on Mission Planned
"Resolved in Mission Planner 1.3.7!

Thanks!
Andy"
Jul 13, 2014
Andy Hornsey replied to Andy Hornsey's discussion Possible Bug? Compass Calibration Failing on Mission Planned
"All working fine thanks for the rapid support!

Andy"
Jul 13, 2014
Andy Hornsey replied to Andy Hornsey's discussion Possible Bug? Compass Calibration Failing on Mission Planned
"Fantastic ... Attempting to download now ... Will let you know the progress.

Andy"
Jul 13, 2014
Andy Hornsey replied to Andy Hornsey's discussion Possible Bug? Compass Calibration Failing on Mission Planned
"It's an epidemic!!

Hope that the Dev's can help on this one!! They do a fantastic job so I don't want to be at all critical!
Copters Piling up (literally) waiting to fly!

Andy"
Jul 12, 2014
Andy Hornsey replied to Andy Hornsey's discussion Possible Bug? Compass Calibration Failing on Mission Planned
"How do I get back to the older version to check? Auto update is a great feature but I can't figure out how to get back to something known to work.
Andy"
Jul 12, 2014
Andy Hornsey replied to ChiggenWingz's discussion =SOLVED= Yawing in wrong direction (not radio?)
"Had exactly the same issue!
Changed PC in the middle of a flying day and one flight was fine the next it would not fly! 
Turns out that somehow the new PC had change the frame type ... took some figuring out!

Andy"
Jul 12, 2014
Andy Hornsey replied to Andy Hornsey's discussion Possible Bug? Compass Calibration Failing on Mission Planned
"Exception Details:
Exception Details
Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index
at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentOutOfRangeException
at System Collections…"
Jul 12, 2014
Andy Hornsey posted a discussion
Hi All, I have just upgraded to mission planner 1.3.6 build 1.1.5306.14681 and I can not get the compass calibration to work. I am building a new copter and this is a show stopper for me since you can't arm without compass calibration (quite…
Jul 12, 2014
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