David C Phillips's Discussions (7)

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S1000+ power module

HiI have always had a power module between battery and power distribution. Is that a good idea on an S1000 or should the power module be connected to the PDB just for the pixhawk? I guess the ability to measure current is going to be the only issue b

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Solo autonomous

HiWhen a mission is saved in the solo has anyone found a way to program the controller to change to auto?I realize you can't load the mission without a program but once it is loaded it would be nice. Using a laptop in the truck to load it and monitor

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Power module for S1000+

HiI am putting an S1000 together with Pixhawk. On my Hex I'm using 200A Mauch but I'm unsure about the current draw on the S1000+ with 20,000 mah battery and possibly 2 20,000 mah batteries. If I go with 2 batteries I should probably have one power m

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Wobble with 4s battery

HiIs it possible to switch between 3s and 4s batteries without tuning?I have a 550 tuned with 3s 5000 and when I try to run 4s 5000 it wobbles really bad. I guess if I tune it to 4s the 3s would work okay. I was thinking I could save the parameters t

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Drone goes up, doesn't come down.

HiFlew my hex x a few days ago and it flew great. Over 50 mph and very stable. Pixhawk came out of an Iris+. DJI e310 kit.The following day I was getting compass errors. Calibrated it several times and it was okay. Took off and it was very shakey. Th

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Hercules Xl

I ordered a 78" Hercules XL

It will be running 35-30A 1400kv motors, 70A Turnigy Trust ESC's and starting out with four Nono-Tech 5000 mah lipoly batteries.

Control and telemetry will be Dragonlink 433MHz

FPV will probably be 2.4 GHz or 1.2 GHz.

PixHawk

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