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Terrace, B.C.
About Me:
Currently the equpment manager for a commercial helicopter company. Been flying RC helicopters off and on for 6 years.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Just starting with my first quad, setup a cheap KK board and flew only a couple times before recieving my APM 2.5. Still playing around in stabilize mode. Reading the forums and wikki every night. Will be making the leap from RC to UAV very soon, exciting stuff!!
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"Hi Paul, I have not had a chance to try this yet but here is the info:
If you choose to control the pins directly from the APM, you must choose LEDs which have a current draw lower than the maximum permissible current of the AVR chip on the APM:…"
If you choose to control the pins directly from the APM, you must choose LEDs which have a current draw lower than the maximum permissible current of the AVR chip on the APM:…"
"I'm sure it will have its pros and cons, but it definitely needed change. What I really want to see is a crackdown by police forces on people doing what I think we all consider dangerous, commercial or not, it shouldn't matter. I live in a small…"
"Ugggg, your so right. I knew I shouldn't be here on an Iris topic. What will really help is if I just get a Pixhawk :) That link is really over my head but I do appreciate your attention to this. For me the issue I had is now resolved.
Thanks…"
Thanks…"
"Thanks for this Charles, I'll try re-arranging my plugs for AC3.2 and see if that works."
"Ahhh, compliments will get you everywhere, just trying to contribute back to the community some. Now you have me thinking about those damn LED's that I ignore because they don't work right, so I'm looking into it. It used to be that the…"
"Hey Charles, some time ago my LED's quit working properly, and that may have been when I swapped out my APM to another machine and forgot to change the Led_Mode. In any case I am trying to get it working properly again but in the latest mission…"
"Not sure I can help much more, but is your compass internal or external? If external there are orientation adjustments for that too, under compass setup. If you are just looking at the HUD in mission planner the roll axis normally does look…"
"WhooHoo, well they definitely needed some changes but I didn't see this coming. In order to comply with regs I spent months putting together a SFOC, submitted it on 03 Sept and have not heard a word from TC. Also just shelled out a bunch of money…"
"Yup, something got messed up. Check out the AHRS_ORIENTATION in the full parameter list, its halfway down on the first screen. I can't recall default, mine is hanging upside down so I use "8:Roll 180", I think default is "0" but check that…"
"Thanks Craig, it was your comment "If you still want to use the terminal, you have to connect within 20Seconds of power up" that threw me off since this is clearly not the case for any of the 3.2 versions.
Unfortunately the link you provided does…"
Unfortunately the link you provided does…"
"Thanks Chris, this was my understanding too, until I read Craigs post, perhaps he is referring to a previous firmware release. I will search through the Full Parameter List again, but its a long list when I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking for :)"
"I was so happy to find this post, now I can get into terminal again with APM :) Well no this didn't work. Using the latest 3.2 RC14 and MP 1.3.10 I can not get into terminal even when connecting within 20s (or 10s or 5s).
The reason I need into…"
The reason I need into…"
"Hardest part is getting the smoke back in :) I once washed a GPS/compass in washing machine with my pants, I took it out of the case and dried it immediately in a warm oven, surprisingly it works just fine, but it wasn't powered on. I also flipped…"
"Thanks josh, I too found some answers with more Googling, it has also been on an issue list here for quite awhile. For a long time I didn't know what to search for because I had no idea why my EEPROM was erased (hardware/software/firmware). I…"
"Wow, I can't believe there are no answers to this seemingly simple question. I have corrupted my EEPROM twice now when uploading large missions, it really sucks as you have to setup your copter all over again (if you didn't save your parameters). …"
"There is a battery attached to the underside of the GPS board, inside the housing. This battery should last many years and will not affect your position error anyway. A dead battery will only affect satellite acquisition times (a lot). The battery…"
