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Jean-Louis Naudin commented on Jean-Louis Naudin's blog post Successful test of the Cheerson CX-20 (APM + Arducoper firmware inside)
"@a_paolo : No, this will not affect the stabilitity in STABILIZE mode, this will affect only the LOITER, AUTO, RTL mode because the GPS is used in this case. If you have damaged the arms of the quad, I recommend you to check carefully that the level…"
Sep 2, 2014
Jean-Louis Naudin commented on Jean-Louis Naudin's blog post Successful test of the Cheerson CX-20 (APM + Arducoper firmware inside)
"@Paolo: Be careful, at this moment there are some troubles in the GPS accuracy (HDOP) and sometime the GPS doesn't lock or unlock in flight due to the current solar geomagetic storm activity since august 27, 2014 which may affect the satellites…"
Sep 1, 2014
Jean-Louis Naudin commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Adding 3DR radio telemetry to the Quanum Nova APM-powered copter
"@Hans: You will find a micro-USB extension at:
http://www.rctimer.com/product-964.html
JL"
Aug 27, 2014
Jean-Louis Naudin commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Adding 3DR radio telemetry to the Quanum Nova APM-powered copter
"@PF: You will finde hex code of ArduCopter firmware in my GitHub at:
https://github.com/jlnaudin/x-VTOLdrone/blob/master/Firmware/ac312.hex
Right-click with the mouse on the RAW button and choose "Save as..." to download the fiwmare code
idem for…"
Aug 27, 2014
Jean-Louis Naudin commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Adding 3DR radio telemetry to the Quanum Nova APM-powered copter
Aug 27, 2014
Jean-Louis Naudin commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Adding 3DR radio telemetry to the Quanum Nova APM-powered copter
"@PF: you will find the AC 3.1.2 firmware source in my GitHub at:
https://github.com/jlnaudin/x-VTOLdrone/tree/master/ArduCopter
JLN"
Aug 27, 2014
Jean-Louis Naudin commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Adding 3DR radio telemetry to the Quanum Nova APM-powered copter
"@PF: I suggest you strongly to reload the original AC 3.1.2 firmware which gives excellent result with the mini-APM installed on the Cx-20 (Nova).
Look at my onboard video with a GoPro 3 and see by yourself the result...


Do not change a winning…"
Aug 27, 2014
Jean-Louis Naudin commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Adding 3DR radio telemetry to the Quanum Nova APM-powered copter
"Hello PF,
The CX-20 (Nova) fly perfectly with the 3.1.2 Arducopter firmware... So why upgrading or changing something here ?


All details are posted HERE
Best Regards,
Jean-Louis"
Aug 27, 2014
Jean-Louis Naudin commented on Jean-Louis Naudin's blog post Successful test of the Cheerson CX-20 (APM + Arducoper firmware inside)
"@Tod: I have used the Cx-20 factory setup for the telemetry. The CX-20 firmware has not been updated, this is the ArduCopter v3.1.2.

The 3DR telemetry is working well with the latest version of the mission planner v1.3.7 and also with the…"
Jul 29, 2014
Jean-Louis Naudin commented on Jean-Louis Naudin's blog post Successful test of the Cheerson CX-20 (APM + Arducoper firmware inside)
"Test flight of the Quanum Q-2D Gimbal installed on the Cheerson CX-...
Regards,
Jean-Louis"
Jul 29, 2014
Jean-Louis Naudin commented on Jean-Louis Naudin's blog post Autonomous flight mission with the ArduPlaneNG v2.x R5 and AIOP IMU board on Maxi Swift flying wing
"Hello Mathieu,
You may change the motors mapping in the library itself. Look at the file AP_Motors.h in the AP_Motors library.
I hope this will help you.
Regards, Jean-Louis"
Jun 30, 2014
Jean-Louis Naudin commented on Jean-Louis Naudin's blog post Successful test of the Cheerson CX-20 (APM + Arducoper firmware inside)
"@Eric:
If you cannot arm/disarm the motors, there are some reasons:

if you have replaced the original receiver by another (such as Futaba, Hitec... receiver):
You need to disable the throttle cut setup by putting the throttle trim down to the…"
Jun 18, 2014
Jean-Louis Naudin commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Adding 3DR radio telemetry to the Quanum Nova APM-powered copter
"@Rolf: Yes, the Radio Tx is connected to Rx pin of the APM and the Radio Rx is connected to the Tx pin of the APM.
You will find some additional infos about the 3DR telemetry at:
http://plane.ardupilot.com/wiki/common-using-the-3dr-radio-for-tele..."
Jun 15, 2014
Jean-Louis Naudin commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Adding 3DR radio telemetry to the Quanum Nova APM-powered copter
"The link to the Telemetry connection tutorial is pointed below: 

Connecting the telemetry to the Cheerson CX-20 Auto-Pathfinder (als...)


Regards,
Jean-Louis"
Jun 15, 2014
Jean-Louis Naudin commented on Chris Anderson's blog post New APM-powered Phantom clone at HobbyKing
"@Jonathan: Here a detailled photo of the ESC used in the CX-20. I have no additional info about this.

Jean-Louis"
Jun 3, 2014
Jean-Louis Naudin left a comment for Terry Brooks
"Hi Terry,
You will find the Mini APM at:
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__51498__hobbyking_hkpilot...
Regards
Jean-Louis"
Jun 2, 2014
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