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Male
About
Location
Fort Smith, NT
About Me:
Wildland Fire Scientist
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
I use Micro-UAVs in my work with wildland fire
Hometown:
Fort Smith, NT Canada
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"I am pretty sure that the 3 conductor for ESC are simple pass through points, it is very strait forward. You should ask in the OpenPilot forums!
Franco
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Franco
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"Works a whole lot better with a battery or a battery mod. otherwise it has to re-download the entire almanac every time....
Franco"
Franco"
"No thoughts on this, anyone?
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"I am no expert on this, but I think there are several factors:
1) Laws - restricted ceilings 500ft in USA I think
2) Altitude sensor if there is one, is most likely scaled and therefore its accuracy would diminish as you get higher or lower than…"
1) Laws - restricted ceilings 500ft in USA I think
2) Altitude sensor if there is one, is most likely scaled and therefore its accuracy would diminish as you get higher or lower than…"
"Sorry I mean:
2.0.47 beta
at least that is what it was called when I updated the firmwarre in the gcs before I left on the trip....."
2.0.47 beta
at least that is what it was called when I updated the firmwarre in the gcs before I left on the trip....."
"I second this, I have a really hard time up until AC2, but it pays to take your time, I have 3 AC2 Quads in service, by far they are currently the most stable and reliable in my fleet and I have more than 20 models. Keep up the amazing work Team…"
"I just finished some nice tests, I just flew my CF Daedalus Kinjal (12 inch 30cm motor to motor) with APM no mag, in my house, hovering, for 6 min 45 seconds very stable, on beta 47 AC2. This was with gps, Xbee Telem, Sonar, Gopro in Waterproof…"
First, great work on the GCS it just get better and better. I just got my APM back from repair and wanted to upload beta 43 to it, but the planner seems to always be locked in on a newer version of firmware. Would it be silly to request that the GCS…
AC2 Team, YOU %#$& ROCK!!!! I am proud to say, that I have another amazing quadcopter running on APM hardware with AC2 Firmware (43) Flying sweet and stable. summary:Air Frame: AGL Rusty Rev 7 modifiedPlatform Format: Quadcopter XFlight Controller:…
Hi Folks, I have 2 of these with Batteries installed, can anyone tell me if I can substitute the APM gps for this one?http://www.quadroufo.com/product_info.php?products_id=68&osCsid...
"I think it cannot init the gyro? when I do test - imu it goes on forever with init gyro *********, the stars just keep going and it is repeating the LED pattern... Hmmm."
"I would just like to thank everyone for the helpful advice and wise ground rules to follow. I am now happily flying my AC2 w APM 2560 and another with AMP1280. I am now happily running my AC2 as a replacement for my Mikrokopter.rd-inflight.png"
NOTE: Solved, Lessons learned, this is here for reference.Hi folks, another smokeshow. And now I want to give up. so pissed.You will have to forgive me, nothing against any of you, or chris, or the project, but this is just WRONG.After reading about…
