About

Gender

Male


Location

San Marcos, CA


About Me:

I have been building and flying RC for years, want to get into quadcopters.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I like the challenge of the technology.


Hometown:

San Marcos


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Ed Kirk replied to wolfgang's discussion did i mess up the soldering on my mega shield ?
"The ohmmeter uses a pretty high voltage for a circuit with very sensitive components which can do more harm then good. Most circuits will transfere current to something, that something varies with what they are processing.

The ohmmeter works great…"
Oct 17, 2010
Ed Kirk replied to Robert Beatty's discussion Need help understanding RC with ArduCopter
"I was getting good flights and now I am seeing some issues in configuration that might be related, the Z axis acceleration bar hovers around the top of the scale at 430 instead of going to center or 0. It drops toward 0 when I rapidly lower the…"
Oct 13, 2010
Ed Kirk replied to Robert Beatty's discussion Need help understanding RC with ArduCopter
"Try a two cell lipo, it will reduce the over compensation and hover will be more relaxed. When your reactions are better you can use the three cell lipo, it also gives you time to learn to trim things out. The small car lipos work great for me, they…"
Oct 12, 2010
Ed Kirk replied to Stefan Kellner's discussion Arducopter only seems to work with USB attached
"I had the same problem using Scorpion ESCs which look for a signal from the transmitter when they are powered up. The ESCs don't see a signal until they are armed by the transmitter which creats a delay in the signal. I switched to E-flight ESCs and…"
Oct 11, 2010
Ed Kirk posted a discussion
Cannot get to respond to transmitter, the flight data responds to transmitter inputs and movement of the boards, also the flight mode doesn't change to changes in the switch position.  I do see motor outputs respond to the flight mode switch when it…
Oct 6, 2010