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Ackerman, MS


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Multi-Rotor and fixed wing mapping


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Ackerman, MS


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Ken Paine replied to Miselis Galeckas's discussion Redundand Pixhawk power supply
"You will probably have to power your servos from one of the BEC's and not the pixhawk rail.  The pixhawk might start rebooting if you attempt to power all of that off the servo rail.  This will especially be a danger if you are going to attempt to…"
Apr 14, 2015
Ken Paine replied to Jimmy Oliver's discussion Lessons learned today: Take heed and enjoy in IRIS
"Jack,
I am also in the process of completing a fixed wing with a S100 to study pine plantation.  I am located in the middle of the pine belt here in MS where all we have is pine trees and logging.
I am using a Penguin air frame and I would love to…"
Apr 8, 2015
Ken Paine replied to Jimmy Oliver's discussion Lessons learned today: Take heed and enjoy in IRIS
"When I program this drone I expect it to operate as I tell it.

For safety's sake expect it to make regular mistakes.
Now if 10.6v has a correlation to Mah

It doesn't have a correlation.  If you are running Minim OSD you can configure it to give…"
Apr 8, 2015
Ken Paine replied to Jimmy Oliver's discussion Lessons learned today: Take heed and enjoy in IRIS
"Those IR ranges should be good for high current flight batteries in the 35C range.  I am not familiar with the batteries that are sold with the IRIS, but they should be good."
Apr 8, 2015
Ken Paine replied to Jimmy Oliver's discussion Lessons learned today: Take heed and enjoy in IRIS
"There are a couple of good lessons in this post.
First is you cannot rely on a battery percentage remaining figure or a Mah consumed/remaining figure in order to determine when to land.  The only reliable way to handle this is through using the pack…"
Apr 8, 2015