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Male


Location

Suffolk


About Me:

Electrical engineer and hobbyist


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Fail safe setups for long range fpv attempts


Hometown:

Ipswich


Activity Feed

Benjamin Harvey replied to Benjamin Harvey's discussion Wing severely oscillating in stabilize mode in ArduPlane User Group
"The one in the video was a dive, could well be structural but will never know as it died shortly after. It's still happening though on a new wing, with less flex, during level flight at a fairly modest speed.

I've a theory that I might have too…"
Aug 10, 2014
Benjamin Harvey posted a discussion in ArduPlane User Group
Hi, im wondering if anyone can help. When flying my wing in fairly windy conditions my wing will occasionally start oscillating in the pitch axis, it starts gentle but then becomes progressively more violent. To escape the problem i return to manual…
Aug 10, 2014
Benjamin Harvey replied to Gábor Zoltán's discussion Adding extra functions to MinimOSD
"I just watched the EZosd flite test episode. For mutirotor they have a nice little feature that uses your current draw to estimate remainig flight time. How plausible would it be to cram this feature onto the minimOSD?"
Aug 10, 2014
Benjamin Harvey replied to Gábor Zoltán's discussion Adding extra functions to MinimOSD
"Thanks Miguel, that makes sense, I have mode switch on channel 8 so I'll just move my mixes around and alter the mode input in mission planner. Thanks for your assistance!

Up til now I've been using the analogue output, but I'm clearing that port…"
Aug 4, 2014
Benjamin Harvey replied to Gábor Zoltán's discussion Adding extra functions to MinimOSD
"Im trying to get the minimOSD to display PWM rssi, but all i get displayed is -99%?

about my setup,
minimosd extra plane prerelease 2.4 r719.hex
APM 2.6
PWM rssi is being provided using PWM rssi injection on PPM channel 6. i can confirm that this…"
Aug 3, 2014
Benjamin Harvey replied to Oliver Whysall's discussion APM PPM from openlrsng
"any progress with setting up ppm?"
Jul 15, 2014
Benjamin Harvey replied to Benjamin Harvey's discussion minimOSD no mavlink data. SR3 missing?
"So I found that sr3 is now sr1, it was done to help tidy the naming up.

As for my original problem it was due to me being connected to the PC during testing. via usb therefore using up the mav link port. Hence no mav link data could be written to…"
Mar 22, 2014
Benjamin Harvey replied to Ilya Semenov's discussion APM 2.6 USB connection problem in ArduPlane User Group
"Hi in case anyone is interested the regulator is a TPS9133, 

http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/tps79133-ep.pdf (link to datasheet)"
Feb 19, 2014
Benjamin Harvey posted a discussion
Hi new to DIY drones and ardupilot.Im wondering if anyone else has had the same trouble as me or can direct me toward a suitable resource to help me out.It goes like this:Ive loaded up the latest version of arduplane to my apm2.6ive flashed my…
Jan 27, 2014