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Tijeras, NM
About Me:
High Altitude
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Aerial Photography... dropping water balloons...
Hometown:
Tijeras, NM
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It has been awhile since my quadcopter has flown and I am having trouble getting started again. First, I got an error 99, bad compass health... Even though I have never had trouble with my compass. I reloaded firmware (and switched to ArduRover and…
"Did you resolve this? I have an APM 2.5 that I can't get flying due to a 'Bad Compass Health' error... This happens even though the compass is working fine. I never had issues with my internal compass. I just can't seem to calibrate successfully --…"
"I wanted to add for clarification... when hooked up to mission planner, the compass is working. I can rotate (spin) along a vertical axis and the heading changes. Last I used my drone, auto compass calibration was just being developed. As I…"
Hi. I am struggling. Haven't flown for a year and can't seem to arm my copter. Hooked it up to the latest mission planner and it's getting a 'Bad Compass Health' Error. This is even though the compass seems to be fine and it returning the right…
Hi everyone! As I've been flying my quadcopter, I was curious as to how fast it was going. I used some velcro to attach my Garmin Nuvi to it and reset the trip odometer. I clocked my quadcopter at 58 miles per hour. So... I was wondering: Has…
"Hi. I had a flight today where the I had to hold my control to the right about 3/4 of the way to keep my quadcopter level. Strangely, this flight also took about four minutes to lock the GPS signal.
Consequently, I'd rerun the accelerometer setup…"
Consequently, I'd rerun the accelerometer setup…"
"RTL is working, so I believe my GPS is working properly; however, after moving to 3.0.1 (which, for me, coincided with a Mission Planner upgrade), my KMZ files are plotting everything at about 12,000 ft rather than 6,000 ft. Does anyone know what…"
"Well, four good flights and my copter is out of commission again.
I flew two flights last night and two flights today at the park and everything worked great! I stopped my fourth flight a little early because winds were picking up. On the way…"
I flew two flights last night and two flights today at the park and everything worked great! I stopped my fourth flight a little early because winds were picking up. On the way…"
"I just wanted to drop a note to give my thumbs up for the "compass learn" functionality. I've been unable to use 'live calibration' --- tried it 7 times and got 7 very different results. I used the compass learn and now my RTL seems to be…"
"I'm really struggling with 3.0.1. The fact is, I'm now out of spare parts. Every flight (8) I've made on 3.0.1, my hexcopter has simply done it's own thing and taken off. I'm ready to downgrade back to 2.9.1b; however, my concern is that I won't…"
"Oops... that upgrade didn't work for me. Almost had my hexcopter slam into the ground from a very high altitude. Could someone please look at the attached logs for any issues you see? Any help would be greatly appreciated
Things that worked…"
Things that worked…"
Hi Everyone. I am having some issues with RTL. It's flight path seems rather unpredictable. In the screenshot below I indicate my home position and the position of my RTL start. Rather than pick a nice straight path. My hexcopter dived toward…
"Thomas, what kind of motors are you using? On my hexcopter, I am using Avroto 2814 and they are warm, but not anything near hot after a nine minute flight. Last year when I had a slightly twisted motor, they got hot trying to maintain a heading,…"
Hi Everyone, I've had about 20 great flights with my hexcopter. It's done great (except for two in air full motor stops - no idea of the cause, but it recovered). I went outside to fly for a few minutes and I almost lost my hexcopter. My remote…
"Did you program all your ESCs?
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Hi. I made my first hexcopter using PVC. It worked great, but it was, of course, quite heavy. Since then, I've come up with a new frame design and motor mount based upon extruded 12 mm carbon fiber tubing. I was able to test print one of my 3D…
