I've got a skywalker 1830 on APM that i'm getting 45min-1hr of flight time on. So far I've been unable to get a log for a complete flight. The log always cuts off the beginning of the flight. I believe I have the bitmask set to the lowest logging par
Read more…Ive been trying to diagnose some altitude hold problems and I think im making progress. I had a lot of vibrations using kyosho gel and it was causing my altitude hold to freak out and make extreme climbs sometimes. I moved to an "earplug" setup and s
Read more…I've been trying to get my vibrations in spec and I just cannot seem to do it. I have bought new props. Balanced my motors and props. I'm using a tarot 650 frame. I've made sure all my motors are on the same plane and level. Still I get warning level
Read more…Flying in position hold today and I was noticing big fluctuations in my altitude hold. Sometimes the quad would randomly jump up 50Ft. Looking at the logs alt and dalt line up pretty well. But throttle in and throttle out doesn't seem in sync. When I
Read more…I have a 650 quad with 12" props on 700kv motors that felt pretty smooth with stock settings. I ran the autotune and it became very very twitchy. I backed off RC feel and roll/pitch sensitivity but it still feels very twitchy. Any advice? Should I ta
Read more…Tweaking a new build. I'm flying a 3dr pixhawk with a rangevideo ublox 7m compass/gps. This morning I went for a flight and had some battery failsafe issues. That was simply a mistake on my part entering the wrong capacity in the failsafe mah. Other
Read more…I have Afro 30a escs and sunnysky v3508 700kv motors. They are having horrible sync performance with my new pixhawk. Flying with APM before they flew perfectly. I have just gotten this response from 3dr.
Santiago (3drobotics) Dec 03 02:16 PM Hey Jona |
So heres the scoop. I had a well flying quadcopter using an APM 2.6. I decided to move to pixhawk. Bought a brand new unit from 3dr. Wired everything up and installed 3.2 Took it out to fly today and wasn't able to get it off the ground. The throttle
Read more…I have tried to calibrate my APM 2.4 Accel in both 3.2 and 3.1.4. Using CLI and the wizard. Everytime I get a faliure to calibrate. Below I've posted my attempt to calibrate in the CLI.
Read more…I have never been able to flash new firmware. Now that 3.2 is out I really want the new position hold mode. When I go to install firmware in mission planner I select 3.2. It goes through detecting board version, then reading hex. The bar starts to fi
Read more…Trying to figure out if I have a jacked up power module. I have calibrated mission planner using a watt meter. But when I'm at idle with the motors spinning my voltage is all over. My watt meter will read a steady 16.4v but mission planner is showing
Read more…I bought the neo 7m gps/compass from rangevideo. It says its preconfigured for pixhawk. It also came with a 6 pin gps cable plug instead of a 5 like APM needs. I cut the plug to fit and the apm seems to see the gps and compass although the compass is
Read more…I use my telemetry to give me a battery percentage remaining update while flying. I have been flying with 4000mah packs and have it very dialed in so for when I need to land. I recently got 6600mah packs. Do I need to go into my battery tab in missio
Read more…I am trying to get my compass setup correctly. I have calibrated everything and oriented my compass correctly to my frame. However my heading is about 45' off of true north according to my compass. I tried setting my orientation to Yaw 45 however tha
Read more…I am trying to tune my compass. I have set my declination manually to 12' 7min for Los Angeles ca. I have done my compass calibration and had it give me offests below 180. I have done my compassmat and got a reading less than 1%. I am on an apm 2.6 c
Read more…Flying tonight and testing loiter and my video link. Loiter seems to have a little toilet bowl even though i've done my compassmat and it was only 1%. Also when flying in Loiter I noticed some odd behavior. When I push my stick forward to pitch forwa
Read more…I'm trying to debug my minimosd thats being massively affected by my single battery setup. Everything looks great until I arm my quad. Usually I loose the OSD right then, then as I power up the throttle I get big glitches till I loose the video feed
Read more…My quad seems to be flying great until I flip it into loiter. As soon as I do that it takes a 90' turn and tilts about 45' and just keeps going that way on its way towards the ground till I flip back to stabilize. I recalibrated my compass but its st
Read more…Trying to control my brushless dys 3axis gimbal with the PWM output from a11 on my apm. I was able to get the gimbal to react to the turning of the knob on my transmitter but it seemed all over the place and would go up and down and not react correct
Read more…I have moved to telemetry over openlrs. I have it working great to droidplanner on my phone at the groundstation. But I cannot get my previously great working minimosd to work anymore. I had to modify the apm serial baud rate to 19200 for the openlrs
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