About

Gender

Male


About Me:

Live in Nor Cal, like to wakeboard, scuba, snowboard and all sorts of fun stuff.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Primarily looking from the filming aspect, but have some lofty goals of programming cool stuff for the quad to do.


Hometown:

Cameron Park


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James replied to turdsurfer's discussion Pixhawk won't boot with Power Module AND 5V powering the servo output rail.
"So I don't know exactly what went wrong, but we checked the voltage on the 5V rail and it was only ~3, so you should check that voltage as your first step to see if you were similar to me.  After discovering this and working with tech support, they…"
May 4, 2015
James replied to turdsurfer's discussion Pixhawk won't boot with Power Module AND 5V powering the servo output rail.
"At least you have a situation that is working and not working...Currently the only situation I can find on mine is the 'crickets'.  Slowly losing my mind trying to remove all the connectors and narrow it down.  I will see if I add a capacitor on it…"
Jan 18, 2015
James replied to James's discussion Motor blipping on me, can someone help me root cause?
"Does no one have any insight to this?"
Apr 16, 2014
James replied to James's discussion Motor blipping on me, can someone help me root cause?
"Spoke too soon...they happen close to one another, but the motor glitch happens first."
Apr 13, 2014
James replied to James's discussion Motor blipping on me, can someone help me root cause?
"Found more information - it appears I have a GPS Glitch:



So next question is, why does this impact my motor output?"
Apr 13, 2014
James posted a discussion
So the right front motor on my quad is cutting out briefly while mid flight.  This is obviously a problem :).  I looked through the logs, and it looks like the motor input is steady and the motor output is not.  I am not sure why.  I know my compass…
Apr 13, 2014