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I am about to dig out my old APM which is a clone that I purchased before I purchased the Original 3DR Pixhawk.
The last episode with the Clone APM resulted in a flip while in loiter. The graphs also show a divergence when I compare DROLL to ROLL &
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I have an original 3DR Pixhawk. I have been wondering for a while what am I doing wrong or are my expectations just misplaced with regard to getting help. If I face an issue what is the correct approach I should take to get support?
This i
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I am running 3.3.2 on a Pixhawk and when I run Compassmot, I get an interference of just 1%. Which is great however my mag offsets are not the best.
I get -11, 38, -113. I am running a Drotek M8N XL GPS with the ground plane soldered. If its not in
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I am using the latest greatest version of the MIssion planner and AC3.3.1 for the pixhawk. I am using a Drotek M8N XL GPS & MAG.
I am facing a strange problem when I perform a compass calibration over the wireless. All the points get collected at t
Read more…Hi,I am using an original 3dr pixhawk with a 650 frame. I have ekf enabled on AC 3.2. I have noticed one problem where I need to keep re-doing the accelerometer calibration for the first flight of the day. If not done, one or two of the motors clearl
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I performed my maiden flight of a rebuilt APM Quad. After one good 8min flight I swapped the battery and took off again. After a couple of minutes in Loiter it suddenly flipped and crashed. Thankfully I was very low so damage was minimal. I am ru
Read more…Hi,I recently changed my esc, motor and prop combination in an attempt to get more efficiency. This has backfired and I don't know why. Any advice would be appreciated.The quad wants to yaw to the right excessively in a hover starts feeling underpowe
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Can some one please help me with setting up the power module calibration. I have completed all the steps listed in the wiki and configured both volts and current using OTHER sensor as shown in the youtube video.
First a little about the way I have
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I am using a Boscam HD19 Camera for FPV connected to the MinimOSD.
My problem is that the OSD text does not fit on the screen. Using the MinimOSD Config tool, I moved all the text in by about 3 units. This now works but the text is still right a
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I am running AC3.1.5 on a 450 size quad and have had quite a good experience until now. Here is what happened.
I took the quad to my other apartment for the first time which is on the 3rd floor. Tried to arm it on the balcony but it would not arm a
Read more…frame: Quadcopter (F450 clone from Hobbyking)
controller/autopilot: APM2.6
esc: 30A (Avionics)
motors: 850Kv (Avionics)
propellers: 10x4.5, Gemfan
battery: BS 4200mAh (Wolfpack)
flying time: 8 minutes (average)
radio: Futaba T8FG
video: Nexus 4 Phone! :-)
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I have connected a PM to the APM 2.6 and have done a perfect V & A calibration exactly as stated in the wiki. I do not have wireless telemetry so can only see this when stationary and connected via USB.
1. The battery %'age is always 99%. Does this on
Read more…I have a question on the RTL process when triggered by low batt failsafe.
As with RTL when engaged manually, will it climb to a certain height before starting to decend when triggered by failsafe??
Reason I ask is because if I am flying indoors in my r
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Have bought a ULN2803A darlington array and am using it for external LED's.
They work fine but they are always on. Is there a way to have TX switch controll all LEDs such that I can switch them off during the day.
I fiddled around with pin A9 for c
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I recently rebuilt my quad after looking at a few pictures on the vibration damping page. Unfortunately after all that effort my AltHold seem totally messed up.
Im not sure if the picture shows it so ill explain what I did:
1. The Yellow casing i
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I have the APM 2.6 in a quad and would like to expand it to have telemetry, FPV, OSD & HD Recording capability. Here is what I would like to do.
1. I would like to use the Missions Planner to track flight progress.
2. I would also like to enable
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I have a 450 XQuad using an APM 2.6 Flight Controller and Neo6M uBLOX GPS. (Rotation is 180)
My stabilise and AltHold modes work beautifully. However whenever I put it on Loiter the Quad does its own thing. Starts Drifting Badly and even the con
