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Coty Wood replied to Sune Nielsen's discussion GPS Errors (GPS-0 / GPS-1 / GPS failsafe) in PIXHAWK
"Have you looks at the results of a compassmot?"
Aug 31, 2015
Coty Wood replied to Pmarche's discussion Pixhawk and some ESCs with Low KV motors. Pixhawk is not the problem. Problem is related to ESCs, Firmware and fine tuning. in PIXHAWK
"My setup has a new and interesting problem I am curious if anyone has any input on.

I use the Tiger Motor MN4010-11 475kv motors with Tiger Motor S45A ESCs on a Tarot 650 with 16x5.4 Tiger props.  Everything was great until an ESC connection came…"
Jul 24, 2015
Coty Wood replied to Pmarche's discussion Pixhawk and some ESCs with Low KV motors. Pixhawk is not the problem. Problem is related to ESCs, Firmware and fine tuning. in PIXHAWK
"Another heads up:  I use the Tiger Motor MN4010-11 475kv motors with Tiger Motor S45A ESCs and it works great....for a while. On my rig the connections between the ESC and motors got very loose over time.  Initially it required significant force to…"
Jul 22, 2015
Coty Wood replied to K Whipple's discussion Help for a rookie in Agricultural UAVs
"If you have a target budget that would be helpful :-) "
Jul 6, 2015
Coty Wood replied to Philip W. Howard's discussion Telemetry connection to Intel Edison in PIXHAWK
"Any luck with this?  "
Jul 6, 2015
Coty Wood replied to Coty Wood's discussion Should I go ahead and maiden or not? Pixhawk oddness
"FWIW the maiden went great :)"
May 25, 2015
Coty Wood posted a discussion
Greetings!I just built a new plane (mini talon) and installed a Pixhawk in it running the new 3.3 software.Initially I was getting an error I had never seen before: Error EKF PRED POS HORIZ ABS and the horizon was rolling around slowly.  After some…
May 22, 2015
Coty Wood replied to Coty Wood's discussion Pixhawk reading invalid roll
"One of these should be the dataflash log... think it is the .20 one2015-04-11 10-03-20.bin2015-04-11 09-53-59.bin2015-04-11 16-06-50.bin"
Apr 12, 2015
Coty Wood replied to Coty Wood's discussion Pixhawk reading invalid roll
"Also seeing prearm bad velocity"
Apr 12, 2015
Coty Wood replied to Coty Wood's discussion Pixhawk reading invalid roll
"http://youtu.be/vlMkXU4GTNI

Video of the associated failed misson"
Apr 11, 2015
Coty Wood posted a discussion
I fear my Pixhawk is suffering from some sort of hardware problem :(Initially all was well with my Tarot 650 quad after installing the Pixhawk.  Loiter was rock solid and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.  During additional testing however things…
Apr 11, 2015
Coty Wood replied to Coty Wood's discussion DCM bad heading = almost lost my craft
"Just did my compassmot....If I read this correctly it is excellent! "
Apr 3, 2015
Coty Wood replied to Coty Wood's discussion DCM bad heading = almost lost my craft
"Nice looking Tarot!  I do have the external compass (Pixhawk), it is on a stalk and I have an extra deck/layer added to add separation between the ESCs and compass."
Mar 31, 2015
Coty Wood replied to Coty Wood's discussion DCM bad heading = almost lost my craft
"Anyone?"
Mar 27, 2015
Coty Wood replied to Coty Wood's discussion DCM bad heading = almost lost my craft
"In case it is relevant:
Tarot 650 frame with 680 pro motor mounts
Additional frame level/plate
Tiger Motor MN4010-11 475kv
Tiger S45A ESC
Tiger 16x5.4 props
Pixhawk (latest version of firmware as of March 2015)
5100 4S"
Mar 24, 2015
Coty Wood posted a discussion
Greetings!I have about half a dozen short flights on a newly built Tarot 650 and this evening I almost lost it due to a "DCM bad heading" issue.  The flight was going fine and I made the mistake of getting too much altitude and letting the craft get…
Mar 24, 2015
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