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Gerard Valade replied to jbabio's discussion Current sensing (safely) for Heavy Octo?
"Warning, using attopilot with draw more than 180 can be dangerous because the power consumation grow wtih square of current :
P = I² * R
actual attopilot for 180A :
180*180*0.00025 = 8.1 watts
if you draw 272A
272*272*0.00025 = 18.4 watts"
Sep 22, 2015
Gerard Valade replied to Charles Henderson's discussion 200 Amp Current Sensor
"Sorry for the late reply, but  can this answer to the question : wire as shunt"
Sep 22, 2015
Gerard Valade replied to jbabio's discussion Current sensing (safely) for Heavy Octo?
"Attopilot is difficult to found in Europe, why not use the wire as shunt like this :
wire as shunt"
Sep 22, 2015
Gerard Valade posted a discussion
Why not use thread as shunt ?The power module use a 0.0005 shunt resitor for a mximum of 90 amperes.If we use the thread as shunt we can measure a current more than 90 amperes.Example for 10 AWG wire with 10 cm long :The resistor for 10 AWG is ~…
Sep 21, 2015
Gerard Valade replied to Lito P's discussion Random motor surges
"Excuse me, I try to understand what is happening.
You try to run version 2.9 on a Cirius's board.
But the difference is that Cirius use only I2C for its components, and APM2.5 use only I2C for adressing HMC5843. Release 2.9 use semaphore for SPI.If…"
Feb 16, 2013
Gerard Valade commented on CyborgCNC's blog post New Heavy Lift QuadCopter Frame from HH
"X mount

more difficult to remove the landing gear.

On X configuration, it is difficult to mount the bar, because it hits the nuts, we must place one or more washer under the landing holder.

mounting a 35xx motor
 "
Jun 9, 2012
Gerard Valade replied to Florian G's discussion ER9x + Rolling SW + Mavlink + PC Control ?
"Hi Florian,
I have also a Frsky with FLD02, it is good for having RSSI, too much technology for a little UAV :)
When coding a functionnality, we must always  trying to optimize memory space or it is too diffcult to have great array. The symptoms…"
Apr 2, 2012
Gerard Valade replied to Florian G's discussion ER9x + Rolling SW + Mavlink + PC Control ?
"Hi,
The source code is here on git : http://code.google.com/p/gv9x/source/checkout
But I think ATmega640 is not limited to an interresting project, but we can only keep the functionality rollout switch. TH9X crashes easily if the program is a bit…"
Mar 31, 2012
Gerard Valade replied to Florian G's discussion ER9x + Rolling SW + Mavlink + PC Control ?
"Great Earl, 
It work now on APM2 and xbee.
Yes you can put this code on er9x, but it work on ArduCopter, not on ArduPlane.
I am younger than you, only 52 springs :)"
Mar 18, 2012
Gerard Valade replied to Florian G's discussion ER9x + Rolling SW + Mavlink + PC Control ?
"Hi,
How do you solve your problem before this ? UART Baud rate or TTL Level ?


Not receiving heartbeat :
Really I dont know, to investigate we need more dump,
you can use "Free serial port monitor 3.31", but do not use MegaPlanner to generate data…"
Mar 18, 2012
Gerard Valade replied to Florian G's discussion ER9x + Rolling SW + Mavlink + PC Control ?
"I found it, but I must test it this week because it was very old version, and I'll send to you for dumping data"
Mar 16, 2012
Gerard Valade replied to Florian G's discussion ER9x + Rolling SW + Mavlink + PC Control ?
"Hi Earl,
Sorry for the late reply

My last test was on APM1 Hardware and Version 'ArduCopter V2.4.2'.Never try with ArduPlane and APM2 Hardware.The minimum configuration is only setting the data rate (air and uart) between APM and TG9X (SERIAL3_BAUD…"
Mar 16, 2012
Gerard Valade replied to Florian G's discussion ER9x + Rolling SW + Mavlink + PC Control ?
"May be P5 is off.
There is no priority. In ppm mode on APM, only when ppm value change (there are 6 values) the mode change.
So if ppm value does not change and we send mavlink command code the APM mode will set with the mavlink code.
In mavlink…"
Mar 6, 2012
Gerard Valade replied to Florian G's discussion ER9x + Rolling SW + Mavlink + PC Control ?
"@Florian
I push the 1.08 to gv9x, try it. I remove for the ppm mod the edition of the name of the control, you must chose from a list.
Try only in ppm mode there is no problem, maybe ppm value interact with mavlink command (They have worked with old…"
Mar 4, 2012
Gerard Valade replied to Florian G's discussion ER9x + Rolling SW + Mavlink + PC Control ?
"Hi Florian,
1)
I never try to connect APM to PC and TG9X via the same channel (telemetry).
I just connect APM to PC (Mission Planer) via USB and TG9X via the telemetry port.
But you told of 'ER9x-ArduPilot Firmware', this firmware was not supported…"
Mar 2, 2012
Gerard Valade commented on John Arne Birkeland's blog post Beta test new servo input firmware for ArduPilot MEGA
"I tested with FrSKY D4FR and D8RSP, both work fine with CPPM.
Can we do the same with the output channel by using an external PPM Encoder ?"
Jan 7, 2012
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