A very reliable Hex fell 300 feet today... good thing I was at 400 feet because it recovered...
But I had to fight to get it back...
I am not very good at looking at these logs..
It looks like the throttle input, to the APM, went to zero for a few sec..
Read more…Large Hex with APM 2.5.. 3.0.1...
Lots of time flying... No problems... Very stable... Loiter Perfect after tuning...
Take off, kind of fast... Motor #1 stops in the air... copter spirals down... does not power up
when I apply more power...
I figured mo
Read more…I want to build one like this but how do I turn off the APM during forward flight.. ?
Or can I turn P down to zero with ch6 and the APM will do nothing in forward flight ?
Eddie Weeks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQqSDFQ2Ntw
Read more…OK.. I have built 10-15 tri,hex,octo… ect all with AMP 1 2 2.5…
All worked fine…for the most part..
Now I am building generator-copter… 23CC gas motor powering a 2000 watt brushless motor..
To date the generator has produced over 1100 watts….
Read more…Running 2.5 with uBlox 2.9.1.... Really works well.... Loiter is Always <3 feet...
Its so reliable, when I put it in Loiter I look away and plan a mission or go inside the house…
This time I put in Loiter at time index 83% and walked away…. Then I he
Read more…In stab, where do I change the value for Max Angle of the copter...
The default is 45 deg... I want to set it 30 for pitch and roll... The copter not the camera gimble..
I have looked and looked.. The varialble name would be fine...
Thanks
Eddie Weeks
Been flying multi copters on APM for years...
Now, for work I am building a boat to carry an instrument in the Artic next summer...
I uploaded the rover code, but the mission planner sometimes shows the little car
but most of the time is shows the airpl
Read more…Been doing this a while... been flying APM 1.. 2.0 for a long time..
Am I missing somthing... APM 2.5... ublox GPS....
no lights on the GPS....no GPS fix...
Did I hook it up right.. ? Thanks
Eddie Weeks
Read more…I have had MP running for over a year on many laptops, but it has never run on my Win 7 desktop..
I need to setup some missions for a Boat and its getting to be a pain to use these small laptops....
have installed .net framework 3.5 and 4.0 numerious t
Read more…Attached is some data I collected looking for the best prop for my stuff..
The APC electric are as good as APC slow fly... that surprised me..
Eddie Weeks
Read more…In ~20 mph winds, I was contracted to get many videos like this one...
There is plenty of work out there !!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXmMeK9oK6k&feature=related
Eddie Weeks
Read more…I am thinking there is a need for a CNC machined aluminum box for the APM2...
Attached is a box I designed for a 2 watt RC transmitter... I made hundreds of these...
I am looking for feed back for something simular, with rubber mounts and clear plasti
Read more…My quad with 2.1 hovers great... The PID tuning was not a problem...
I made the frame fairly large and its more than stable enough to take still pics from..
Problem is... Any Yaw input and the quad climbes very quickly or drops like a rock.
Using smalle
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