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APMPlanner VS Mission Planner -- SOLVED

Just wanted to share some experience to hopefully prevent others from having the same issues.

Long story short:TRY DIFFERENT SOFTWARE AND/OR COMPUTER BEFORE MAKING HARDWARE CHANGES

I had been out of the APM scene for a couple years and recently upgrade

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Optical Flow Sensor - Is it worth the trouble?

Hey guys,

I built a custom quad couple years ago that uses APM 2.0 as flight controller. I have the optical flow sensor still sitting in the box but have yet to install. Currently have MB1260 for sonar.

It seems on APM 2.0, to install the optical flow

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Auto-Trim Mode

I have a couple questions about auto-trim mode. I have tried leveling my quad numerous times both through mission planner and holding stick to the left for 15 seconds. No matter how I level it always wants to lean in one direction.

Here is the interes

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Alt Hold Crash - v2.3

Hey everyone, had a real weird thing happen to me while testing alt hold today. I have included logs and video. Around 85% in the tlog I switch to alt hold, all is well until 95% in the tlog where my the quadcopter just starts rotating unexplainably

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Pitch Reversed???

Okay just updated the firmware in my quad, I reset to factory default settings and reconfigured everything. Checked props and that the direction was correct, set frame to x and level. Connected to CLI and ran "motors" command and everything responded

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APM Firmware Issues

I recently purchased Arducopter V2 DIY quadcopter kit and have everything ready to go. When I went to load the latest firmware through Mission Planner it gives me this verification error:

 

Upload succeeded, but verify failed: exp 2C got 2D at 3373.

 

Wh

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