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Battery percentage

Hi,

Am i correct in assuming that there is a bug with the percentage battery remaining on the mavlink (i am using andropilot) - when the battery is full it drops percentage from 100% to say 60% as an example - now when i reboot the arducopter - it sta

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automatic declination

Hello,I have never set the declination for my location.I do not have a GPS. I have done tlog calibrations for the compass.what impact does this lack of declination entry have for me? Will it cause compass heading issues?Thanks

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Compass

hello,

I had the arducopter outside my house running perfectly in simple mode. I ran in the same location for a few days with no issues with simple mode.

Tonight i drove to a new location about a mile away and when i enabled simple mode it was 90 degre

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calibration

there is a check-box just to the right of the calibration button on the mission planner.

What is this for / i don't see any documentation for this?

thanks

Damo

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Arducopter moving to front right

hi,

i have just built my arducopter. it is calibrated, the esc's are calibrated.

When i take off it move in the direction forward and right.

i have tried re-calibrating again to no avail.

Any ideas as to how i can debug this?

thanks

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Arducopter Question

hi,

i am building my arducopter.

I have it on the same flat surface that it was calibrated on.

I have calibrated the ESC's

I have calibrated the quad.

It do not have the props on yet. I already have a quad (x650) that flies fine.

When i give the arducopter

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Ublox lea-6h no GPS lock

Hello,

i bought the ardumega 2.5 + and the ublox gps together from 3drobotics.

The GPS will not lock onto any satellites. I am powering both right now over USB from my laptop. I am outdoors in a clear sky. I ran the CLI gps test. it says the ublox is O

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