i think, the ESC with the broken Fuse will pull the PWM SIgnal somehow to ground. An easy way to isolate the two Signals is a "wired OR" built with diodes. Because the PWM Signals are not that fast, this may work.I have uploaded a pic with…"
"David;
you may be right. I used my own autopilot software based on the very first implementation on ArduPilot.
I don not know about the NAVL1_PERIOD. I assume it has to to with the update rates.
My problems with zigzaging reduced drastically by:…"
"I agree with Chris,
first try to reduce the P-Value.
If this does not help, the construction of the boat should be reviewed.
I already had this problems with a monohull construction and a bad "center of gravity" due to wrong placement of the lead…"
"Hi Northstar,
to make it short: No
But:
- I have ported the code to the ARDUINO Leonardo, which is also OK and absolutely adequate for the job.
- APM is fine, but you will not need all the features.
- My design concept was to keep the code as…"
welcome onboard to the inofficial sea survey team!
If you have any questions regarding this topic, feel free to contact me. We have gathered a lot of experience in the last years. It is a pity, that drdepth is recently offline, hope…"
"@Jim:
Yes, the systems are totally separate, the only connection is over the Power supply.
The fishfinder has its own GPS and i record the NMEA Data (which contains position and depth) with an RS232 Datalogger to an SD Card.
The data is then…"