"Yeah ch6 will go to the gimbal obviously, but I also want to connect it to the micro servo on the fpv camera - then I'll trim the gimbal settings to get both pointing more or less at the same angle.

Finally it would be nice to keep the ch6 input to…"

"markus,

yes its certainly starting to look like a good option.  i have some nice 1300mAh 3S batteries which might be just right for powering all electronics (APM+rx+gimbal+Vtx+servo), im not keen on changing two batteries with every flight so a…"

"hi, as you say the root of it all is vibration in the motors - so careful balancing will help a lot.

but for the vibration thats left (theres always some), ive found that stiffer foams work much better.  if you can, get your APM on a board with as…"

"dave, 

this is covered with the RTL_ALT parameter, which is the minimum altitude it must have before navigating back home.  if youre flying below home and select RTL it will stay still horizontally whilst climbing to RTL_ALT (mine is set at 30m -…"

"tienes un log del APM en lugar del tlog?

es que no se interpretar nada de los tlog!


james"

"buenas Jorge,

en primer lugar el GPS no influye en el modo "STABILIZE", así que ningun problema con respecto a eso.

calibrar los ESC puede ser una pesadilla y lo hice muchas veces antes de que me saliera todo correcto - aunque no notas la…"

"por poder, sí que se puede hacer.

pero ten en cuenta que la única visión del mundo que tiene es el GPS (bueno, mas barómetro y posiblemente sonar para altitud), y mientras el 99% del tiempo el GPS da una posición fiable, a veces no es el caso y…"

"have a look at this one:

http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/shielded-hexacopter-is-safer-th...


james"

"ducatona,

creo que muy pocos sabían de PX4 hasta hace unas pocas semanas.
 
la diferencia fundamental para mi es la flexibilidad, PX4 no está tan ligado al firmware de arducopter y arduplane.  ahora, están trabajando para portar el firmware actual…"

"i lost a motor just the other day - at high altitude and a long way away from me!  exactly the failure youre describing, where the circlip slips out of place and the rotor comes right off.

as far as i can tell, the amount of slack along the shaft…"

"the bearing is 10mm diameter, if that helps :)"

"do you have video of it flying?

just trying to think of the most likely things that could have happened since you last had the HK board on there - if youve suffered a few bumps with the ground your props may be off balance and causing vibrations.…"

"Dan,

i tried v1.3 over the weekend and something has changed - it now rejects all my GPS lines.

this is with AC 2.6 (on APM1).  the earlier version of the program (from about 2 or 3 weeks ago) works fine.


regards,

james"

"PID tuning is to control the change of attitude, to get it following your stick or autopilot inputs quickly and smoothly without too much oscillation.

if its consistently pulling forward in stabilize, then its because it thinks its not level.  if…"