So, I pulled out the ole Ruckus last night and put the good ole APM on it again. I have everything plugged up and I go to test it. Did the radio calibration and went to see if everything was responding right. To my surprise, the steering works, but t
Read more…So, Ive recently put APM on an RC Timer F800. The first few flights went very well. At the time, I was running a Futaba 8J. By the end of the first day, stabilize was spot on and the Hex was flying really well. On the second day of flight testing, I
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I am currently working on setting up a Hugin 2.2M airplane as my newest addition. I have been fiddling around on E-Calc for about the last three hours trying to figure out the best configuration for this airplane so that it will ac
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I am trying to figure out a way to convert the signal from a RC Receiver to manipulate a PTZ Camera that uses RS485 input for control. I see all these other cameras that are capable of operating the cameras zoom and focus via the RC
Read more…So, a few weeks ago, I had my quad flying beautifully, all up until I pushed the limits on the battery which ended up in an all motors off fall from the sky from about 200 ft. Needless to say the damage required an all new frame and motors and such,
Read more…Has anyone built a Skywalker 1900 airframe in X-plane for simulations?
Read more…Well, she hit hard today on the first flight of the day from 120 ft. The plane is a skywalker 1900 and it completely went unresponsive while in FBW-A. Im using 2.72 firmware. Can anyone help asses the logs to maybe pin point the problem? I noticed a
Read more…Hey guys, Im no expert here, however I did notice that after upgrading Mission Planner from 2.1.48 to 2.1.49 and 2.1.50, the geo referencing is way off on the estimated seconds. In 2.1.48, my seconds offset was 265 sconds for the file and log I was u
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Had a question about Mission Planners Geo Tagging. I noticed in the google code tutorial, it said that if the pictures were off, to adjust the time in seconds. My question is: What are the Log Offsets for and will they adjust the photos
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I went up for a flight today and snapped a few photos that I want to geo rectify into GE. Through my trial and errors the past few days, I have come to the conclusion of two things:
1) If you are not connected to the APM Board via wireles
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I am working with a group using Paparazzi Auto Pilot. We have been out to several flight tests using a Zephyr II Wing. The problem we are having is as follows:
There was about a 5 second delay in Altitude reporting that was constantly i
Read more…Hey guys, had a thought. I was wondering instead of using seperate batteries to run my video, servos and APM, is there a power distribution board with filters that would eliminate servo noise in the video feed, this way I could go back to one battery
Read more…Hey guys, Ive been thinking... I want to mount a camera on a PT mount underneath my skywalker. I have 0 experience in programing, but I was wondering if it was possible to have the APM 2.5 calculate the angular difference from its pwm input on the se
Read more…I had previously purchased a current sensor from Sparkfun that was described in the Wiki for use with APM 2.0 boards. My question is, can I still use this with the APM 2.5 board and wire it up the same as the 2.0 in the Wiki?
Read more…Hey guys, I just configured my antenna tracker (MP) and its working ok. Im still waiting on a flight test brfore I can definately confirm, but it seems to lag a bit while doing some ground tests. My question is what are my options for possibly reduci
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Ok, so Im setting up my APM 2.5 with a RFDesign 900 Modem and a Minim OSD. I have been looking around and so far, I have seen in relation to the 3DR radios and minim osd, people are running them in parallel. However, I have also seen where t
Read more…After having an awsome week of FPV using waypoints and such, today has been a disaster. My first flight this morning started normal tesing all controls, only when I went into FBW mode, the plane became unresponsive to all controls, and began steadily
Read more…Hey guys, I kow this sounds like a simple increase the Nav Roll P Gains or I gains, the PIDs, however, I have tried one extreme to the other with no success of getting this thing turned back around. I do not have telemetry, however, before launching
Read more…Hey guys, I recently had to replace the hard drive in my computer and I've gone back to set up APM and MP. I followed the wiki as I did the first time I downloaded MP and everything worked fine. Now, after following the wiki, I keep getting "COM Port
Read more…Newbie question.. I am flying a Skywalker 1900 with apm 2.5 with the latest firmware. I trimmed the plane and began tuning the PIDs, however, after getting the roll and pith right, my plane yaws to the left when I activate stabilization mode. Ive tr
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