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Is there a known problem with KDE and xxxHawk?

So for something different I bought a CUAV Pixhack (the real one) for this current H4 Alien 680 build. To head off criticism, it is not a cheap Pixhawk clone. It is high quality hardware in a machined aluminum case with IMU dampening and no connector

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What laptop are you using with Mission Planner?

My laptop is dead; i5 HP 17". The family is tired of me borrowing theirs. After using Tower for the last several weeks and discovering "issues", I decided to go back to lugging around a laptop or making a portable version GCS so I can use Mission Pla

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Accelerometer errors in Tower

but not in Mission Planner.

'Inconsistent Accelerometer'

and

'Accelerometer error'

What I did do was save parameters, then swapped props and ran Auto Tune. I then switched back to the other props and loaded the saved parameters. Ever since then Tower thr

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Is Solo open source?

If not,  how does 3DR get around it? Just wondering as there are disturbances in the force claiming 3RD is violating open source licensing by not releasing the Solo code,  or are they? 

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Tower bug or AC 3.3 or???

I noticed today Tower was giving battery voltage audible updates as if the battery was fully charged, even though I flew it earlier down to 15v. I powered it down, restarted and it did the same thing at 14.8v. 

The flight screen showed the correct vol

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A warning to eCalc users

eCalc estimates for throttle @hover have grossly changed in recent versions at least for my KDE 2814XF-515 motors.

According to eCalc throttle @hover should be 65%. In reality it averages ~45% with the exact same configuration as shown below. When fir

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What causes motors to lose sync?

On my Y6 with KDE 2814XF-515 motors and HW X-Rotor 40a ESC, Pixhawk, it seems like I have to re-calibrate the ESC's over time. Recently the motors were shaking pretty badly which was obvious when slow motion showed motor #5 definitely spinning odd an

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What is INAVerr?

I've asked the question several times in various forums. Nobody has yet answered the question.

The most complete answer was from Randy, but did not define how INAVerr is calculated and why 255 is bad, only that it may be a problem in my logs.

It has to

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INAVerr- Is it the GPS or FC or neither?

Should I expect a crash at some point?

Nervously I took the Spy 750 Y6 up for the first time in over 3 weeks (had a warm spell of 25F today).

In stab it flies great, then switching to poshold it seemed fine, but did the twitchy thing again for a few se

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CSGShop NEO-M8N is giving PM errors??

Today I did a test flight before doing a mission. After switching to poshold, it began behaving erratically, twitching and drifting. I was able to land, but puzzled because there were no errors from the GCS.

Running auto analysis, it gave these result

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Sky Hero Spy 750 Y6 build

I've been messing with this copter for a few months now. The biggest setback has been ESC issues with  KDE 2814XF-515 motors. Doing it over again, I'd bite the bullet and buy the $$ KDE ESC's made specifically for their motors.

After 4 different ESC's

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Rule of thumb on tuning please

I recently built a Sky Hero Spy 750 Y6. It is using Y6B parameters (AC 3.2) which after having it in the air a number of times is obviously not correct. The motors are KDE 2814XF-515.  It seems there is a "RC FEEL" slider, does that affect the PID se

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