Guys,
Hobby King for some reason sent me an extra battery for free. It is a 2 cell 7v 5000mah zippy battery and I was wondering if it can power my quad. If so how long should a typical flight last?
running 4x880 motors with 11" props
Jason
Read more…Ok,Learned the hard way that you shouldn't leave your battery plugged in overnight. So now I need a new battery but before I buy another battery I thought I would ask other people what batteries they recommend for my quad.I currently use the Zippy 30
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Ok, I decided to add a camera to my quad with little sucess. It lasted about 30 seconds before it crashed.
Questions.
1) Do I have to make adjustments to anything when adding the wiehgt of a camera? Change in settings?
2) How importa
Read more…Ok,I strapped my go pro 2 to my quad and set it straight down at 5 seconds intervals. My flight lasted about 30 seconds before it came crashing down. During the flight it kept on "twitching" until it flipped over and hit the ground. Lucky for me I no
Read more…Ok,I strapped my go pro 2 to my quad and set it straight down at 5 seconds intervals. My flight lasted about 30 seconds before it came crashing down. During the flight it kept on "twitching" until it flipped over and hit the ground. Lucky for me I no
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I thought it would never happen but I had my first flight. It went pretty well although the quad kepted wanting to drift away from me when I wanted it to just hover. Also noticed that it would spin a little when I was not giving any yaw.
Also
Read more…For some reason my controller (futaba 7c) switch G is controling the Yaw instead of Radio 5. Below is a picture of my set-up, anyone have any idea on how to fix this?
Hello Everyone,
Everday I feel like a new light bulb is going off in my head which is great.
My New Challenge. I have my Quad ready for flight all it wants to do is flip over.
The quad seems pretty balenced and all four of the motors and ESC seem to
Read more…I am trying to set-up the mission planner simulator but I can not figure it out at all.
I have downloaded "flightgear" but have not figure out how to use it within the mission planner to practice flying my Quad.
I have searched on the forum but have n
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I am trying to learn how to fly my drone and have a question about battery placement. Below is a picture of my set-up and wanted to know if it would be easier to fly if I have the battery position differently. For example have the battery
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Below is a picture of the ALT reading in my mission planner. It does not seem to change regardless is I am on the first floor or second floor.
Ok,After bad ESC, bad GPS, and bad APM my drones is almost ready for flight. Still waiting for GPS replacement.While I am waiting I decided to try and fly this beast but have questions.Mostly how does a quad steer left and right? When I push left and
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I am setting up my system and I am trying to attach my GPS (3DR GPS uBlox LEA-6) and I get no LED response on the board. There seems to be only one way to connect it to the APM so I assume I do not have the connection backwards. I a
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I have posted this before but thought I would try again.
I have connected my GPS (3DR GPS uBlox LEA-6) to my APM 2.5 and I get no LED light on the GPS unit for power or fix.
I have connected the APM through two sources, USB to latop and to full
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In my quest to figure out why my drone is not going as plan I have gone over each step of the process starting with the PDB.
The instructions that came with the PDB shows the image of the red and black leads going to one locations. W
Read more…Well,What's great about life is any time you get over confident life finds a way to bring you back to earth. I have hooked up my apm 2.5 to my PDB and to my receiver and... Nothing. The APM board does not light up. What is interesting is the board li
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I look forward to when I will be on this board answering questions instead of asking so many :o).
after figuring out I had a bad ESC I was able to get all of them working properly except for the following challenge. All 4 of them seem
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I have figured out my soldering problem, and then figured out that one of my ESC was bad, then figured out the "kit" was missing pieces, but I am stuck again.
I understand how all the ESC connect to the PDB and I have figured out (I think) how the
Read more…Hey Guys,First, thanks for all the help in this board I really appreciate the help.I have tested all of the ESC and one keeps on giving the beep, 2 sec, beep, 2 sec, beep, etc. telling me it is not receiving a proper signal from the receiver. I plugg
Read more…sorry for posting this twice just not sure whcih area it belongs in. I testing my motor plus battery I get the following problem
Please note I have the 3 pin from the ESC plugged into my reciever CH1 because for some rea
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