About

Gender

Male


Location

Beverly Hills, FL


About Me:

IT Professional


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

RC stuff has always been an interest of mine. Time to take it to the next level with UAV applications.


Hometown:

Lake Oswego


Activity Feed

James W Powell replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.0.1 released!
"Question about H Frame, I see in the new mission planner there is a selection for H frame. I searched for motor layout (which one is 1,2,3, or 4) for the H configuration but could not find any answers. I did notice the prop rotation directions are…"
Aug 7, 2013
James W Powell replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.0.1 released!
"Great work Randy, Craig, Mr Oborne, Marco and everyone involved in the development. My loiter is rock solid, simonK esc's and all :)

Loiter- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeHcH00gJoQ&feature=c4-overview&......
auto land after…"
Jul 11, 2013
James W Powell replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.0 ready for wider use
"Hate to ask this but I was always taught no question is a stupid question. I'm going to be updating to V3.0.1-rc1 tonight, Do I have to redo the compassmot again? And the "live" compass calibration, accel calibration etc?"
Jul 3, 2013
James W Powell replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.0 ready for wider use
"Strange loiter and alt_hold issue, I have done the manual compass calibration, the compassmot, leveled, etc etc. My quad flies really nice but, when I switch to alt_hold or loiter my quad just slowly ascends, until of course I switch back to…"
Jun 20, 2013
James W Powell replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.0 ready for wider use
"I cannot do the compassmot, I always get this error: Failed! Compensation disabled. Did you forget to raise the throttle high enough? I have raised it to 75% for 5 seconds and quickly pulled the stick down, to 80%, 90%, 100%, even tried just 50% , I…"
Jun 19, 2013
James W Powell replied to Richard Evans's discussion Need Help with tuning APM2.5, 3.0Rc5, Arducopter
"This video helped me get my quad tuned pretty well, I still get some wobbles descending straight down, need to tune "I" more, I'm just lazy lol, but the video will give you a good idea what does what: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHFSLFlTYH8 
I…"
Jun 16, 2013
James W Powell commented on Marco Robustini's blog post ArduCopter 2.9.2ß: position hold near "DJI Wookong-M" performance!
"It keeps getting better and better, great stuff! Mr Robustini, what would be your recommendations for vibration dampening on the apm? Foam pads? Silicon like Zeal pads? And how much does vibration affect the apm board?"
Apr 16, 2013
James W Powell commented on Marco Robustini's blog post ArduCopter 2.9.2ß: position hold near "DJI Wookong-M" performance!
"Awesome work!"
Apr 14, 2013