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Chatham, Ontario
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I decided to build a hexacopter and am enjoying learning about it.
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"Was the APM different than the pixhawk for this? I tested it last night with it armed and everything functioned as it should. I thought in the past i tested the APM the same way but maybe i used the USB for that."
When I disconnect my RC input from the pixhawk my throttle does not drop, it stays at whatever i left it at. So now if it comes unplugged during flight it's going to fly away.Does anyone have info regarding this? Thanks,Colin
"Good call Bill, I didn't notice that.
I bought a 180A attopilot a while back as the the theoretical max of my octo is around 180A although at hover it pulls around 40A. After reading through this thread I still don't understand why everyone is…"
I bought a 180A attopilot a while back as the the theoretical max of my octo is around 180A although at hover it pulls around 40A. After reading through this thread I still don't understand why everyone is…"
"The odd thing about ecalc is putting the total AUW in and saying with drive it gives me results that don't match up to real world results. When i put in the model weight without drive it gives me an all up weight of 4786g and has accurate numbers…"
"The motor mount actual broke in half, it's fiber glass. I need to reinforce the motor mounts to make sure it doesn't happen again. I have been using this frame for a while and it was in a crash with the previous motors so it was probably…"
"I noticed after watching my video a few times that it looses the prop seems fine for a split second then yaws then rolls and crashes. I would think if it was the prop that caused it to crash it would react right away and not be so delayed. Can…"
So I just finished setting up my X8 Octo to run on 5S and decided to do a full test flight. I flew for about 7 minutes, lost a prop and then the whole thing flipped. Here is a link to the crash http://youtu.be/XCinEiDRB08I could hear the X8 didn't…
"I have built an X8 with the same symptoms. I attribute the problem I'm having to the batteries not providing enough discharge. I'm using a 5000 MaH zippy compact 25C and when flying it sits between 10.5V and 10V then drops from there. Today i…"
"How do you tell from the logs whether or not autotune has been envoked and if its actually working?"
"I can't seem to engage the auto tune at all. I have my channel 8 set to auto tune and when I flip it to high nothing happens. I thought it might be my trims like they said in the last post so I did some did some auto trim to get rid of the TX trim…"
"I bought my go pro last spring and have had a couple issues with it. The record button doesn't work most of the time, usually takes about 25 presses to either stop or start recording. This didn't happen until i crashed my copter with the full…"
"I see the in the excel document that you assume a battery weight of 1130g with 8000 maH capacity. Did you take into consideration the 50% weight increase when going from 4S to 6S in the calculations?"
"I figured out my issue, I needed to calibrate the 9x again. I also figured out that the fail-safe was stopping me from calibrating the ESC's so I set the fail-safe to full throttle and was able to auto calibrate. "
"Is there anything else i should be logging to troubleshoot this?"
I just got a ezUHF tx with an 8 channel diversity receiver and am having some issues with it. I did a recalibration of the ESC's but it wouldn't let me to it though the APM so I had to put in each individual ESC to the throttle to calibrate. Next…
