"Yurik, I am happy to hear that the redundancy worked for you but reading the reply from Ed O'Beirne it seems that the redundancy feature was not working for him several times. My experiences also indicate that it does not work.
Yurik, are there…"
If you are talking about the thin gauge red and black set of wires coming out of the middle of the PDB, the connector plugs into one of the APM Output channels. It does not matter which channel you plug it into as the Output channel…"
Hello Folks,I have a 3DR Y-6 Hexa and have been flying it for a couple of months now. In general, I think that it is a good platform. One of the reasons I settled on the Y-6 was that one of the features listed in the description of the Y-6 on the…
Looking at the .log files, it looks like all of the motors are shutting down at the same time but then sometimes they seem to come back on but by that time the Hexa has fallen and does not seem to be able to recover. Looking back over…"
"Hello Oliver,
I received the replacement lower motor (to replace Motor #1) and various spacers on Friday from 3DR and installed the parts. I replaced the neccessary props and checked everything out. I also set the Datalogs to collect the data for…"
I finished building my 3DR Y-6 kit last weekend and was excited to get out an fly it. I flew it a couple of times at my house and it seemed to be okay so I took it to a local park so that I could check it out more. For the first three flights at the…
"Hello Forrest,
A couple of months ago you made several posts about various multicopter frame configurations. I was especially interested in what you had to say about using circular tube for flat "H"octocopters. Have you built such a ship? If so,…"
"Hello Folks,
Just got a propeller to replace the one that got broken in the crash on Sunday. I balanced the new prop and put it on the Hexa. I also rechecked all of the props to make sure that they were all tight.
To prepare for the post-crash…"
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can prevent the GPS "glitches" from happening? I thought that I would be helping to prevent magnetomter and GPS issues by raising the APM board by 35mm from it's stock level.
"Hello Rob,
My FPV system was built into my Hexa from 3DR. The sticker on the receiver indicates that it is 1.2GHz. For the crash flight the FPV was not powered up, I had just installed (but not connected) the 2200mAh 3S battery so that I could see…"
"Hello Folks,
Thanks for the feedback. Is the "glitch" caused by the GPS reciever, the APM, some sort of interference from the electronics on the Hexa or some environmental condition like terrain (or Burmuda Triangle / Time-space vortex?).
Both of…"
Hello folks,I had been flying my 3DR Hexa for about a dozen flights. For the first six flights or so I only flew in Stabilize mode, then when everything seemed okay I went into Loiter mode. I did that for a few flights and it seemed pretty stable.…
"Hello Folks,
Where does one get the 3D designs?
Thanks for the suggestions. Does the community have any good ideas on who does good laser cutting of carbon sheet?
Thanks,
Dale"
Thanks to a lot of help from several folks here on this User Group, I recently got my 3DR built Hexa Ardrucopter flying. It has the APM 2.5+ and is running firmware version 2.9.1b. I got the telemetry working and it seems to work really well. Now…