Hi all,
I've made a larger sized quad, and put larger motors on it, and larger ESC's.
I learned at great cost about some ESC's. I'm hoping to save you money should you be looking for ESC's for APM diydrone products. Here's my saga for those intereste
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My ESC saga continues.
I need them by tomorrow, so can't wait until china ships. No stores here in portland have the 50 amp ESC's I need.
Does anybody have a recommendation of a store with a large stock here in the U.S.?
I could have them shipp
Hi all,
I'm using a Turnigy Trust 55A ESC (well, trying to use) ESC.
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=12190
Using my O-Scope, I can see the PWM output of the APM2, and it's 490 hertz or so, but the pulse widths are the
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I put on my Astronomy hat for the last week, we had a wonderful time with very dark skies at Oregon Star Party (OSP) this year.
I brought my Quad, and made a couple of hours of aerial video. I trimmed it to 14 minutes or so, here it is:
Read more…Obligatory YouTube Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W2-Y77LsvA&feature=youtu.be
Here's what happened: The copter was heading to the northwest waypoint at 25 meters altitude.
Next it turned to the southwest heading to the next waypoint.
The altitud
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I'm posting the source for APMLogVisualizer version 1.34.
http://siderealtechnology.com/APMLogVisualizer1.34Source.zip
A few notes:
1. You can use the free version of Visual C# Express available here to compile this:
http://www.microsoft.com/visua
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The new Arducopter version 2.7 version changed the log parameters in the NTUN, so APMLogVisualiser "Choked" on version 2.7 logs. NTUN returned many bad lines that were rejected by APMLogVisualizer. Now it can be either 2.5.5, 2.6, or 2.7,
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Here's the obligatory YouTube video, it's REALLY cool! There are two runs that have the same phenomenon (I put both runs in this video which is only 1 minute 20 seconds long).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMM_wWSaJGc&feature=youtu.be
Cool, e
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Here's the obligatory YouTube video, it's REALLY cool! There are two runs that have the same phenomenon (I put both runs in this video which is only 1 minute 20 seconds long).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMM_wWSaJGc&feature=youtu.be
Cool, e
Read more…DIY Drones part number:
Antenna 900MHz RP-SMA 2dBi
Antenna 433MHz RP-SMA 2dBi
I ordered two of each, I just received them today, and there's no label on the packages, and they look absolutely identical.
There is a blue dot on two of them, and there's
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I've experienced this several times, on Auto Missions, the most recent glitch made the copter fall from the sky....
The glitch is less than 1 second long.
Most times, it just restarts the mission from the beginning.
I'm using a Spektrum DX7s, and
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I've had quite a few positive comments, and also, some folks have pointed out bugs and made suggestions for improvements.
So, I fixed the bugs (all that I know of anyway), added most of the suggested features, and added a couple new featu
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I hope a few of try out the latest version of my program that is helpful in viewing APM2 LOG files.
Remember, these are the LOG files saved by the APM2 board, and you download them using the CLI in mission planner. These are NOT for the TLOG
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I now have telemetry, but at first I didn't and since I really wanted to view my LOG files in something other than a graph or using notepad, I wrote a small utility for viewing them. I still use this, because there's some things that are logg
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I was looking here:
http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/AC2_datalog
and found I should be able to log the CURRENT if I have a current sensor (which I do), and if it's enabled (which it is). In config under "Battery Monitor", it says: "4: V
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We had a successful day, except auto takeoff didn't seem to take off properly (it just sat on the ground and got "lighter"), this may be a tuning issue, maybe the I term limit needs to be higher (I have a lot of weight on the copter).
I made an
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We've been having fun, my prior failure where the motors stopped, and the QC fell, I do believe is resolved by the video transmitter I was using.
So, now I've an onboard Hero2 cam which is working nicely.
Today was our first day using mission pl
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I'm using all the lastest firmware, 2.5 I believe. I've been flying my new quad since last Friday, with wonderful results, this APM2 is absolutely incredible!
Anyway, this morning, I was loitering, about 3 meters in elevation, it suddenly wen
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