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All has started when I was young and saw rc planes flying at my home town field


Hometown:

Aveiro


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Manuel Ribeiro replied to CyberCrash's discussion *solved* Big trouble...no Power Diode burned out...... I explained how to replace.
"What's the fuse part number ?

Thanks"
Jun 13, 2016
Manuel Ribeiro replied to Randy's discussion Copter-3.3 beta testing
"thank you :)"
May 30, 2016
Manuel Ribeiro replied to Randy's discussion Copter-3.3 beta testing
"Didnt find correct place to post log related to 3.4-rc1 
I am having serious issues with my copter, in the way that it does fly for a short period and then just descends abruptly hitting the ground. As soon as I see it descending (usually i'm flying…"
May 30, 2016
Manuel Ribeiro replied to Randy's discussion Copter-3.3 beta testing
"Thanks for taking a look Cala.
It also could be #4 right ? and 3 tries to compensate ?
It is for sure the motor or could be the ESC ? 
coincidence or not the ESC #3 got pretty damaged upon hitting a wall (some capacitors and a few other components…"
Jan 15, 2016
Manuel Ribeiro replied to Randy's discussion Copter-3.3 beta testing
"Anyone kind to take a look please ?
I cant really figure out what happened. It was fine before 3.3.2..."
Jan 15, 2016
Manuel Ribeiro replied to Randy's discussion Copter-3.3 beta testing
"Hi everyone,
I was enjoying 3.3.2 but suddenly had crash  :( . I think one of the motors/prop/esc just stopped at ~55m and then just saw it falling 
Could you please help me figure out what happened ?

Log…"
Dec 31, 2015
Manuel Ribeiro replied to Randy's discussion Copter-3.3 beta testing
"Oh I got it wrong then. I thought that *_use was for internal and *_use2 to external.
Thanks Randy for clarifying it"
Oct 16, 2015
Manuel Ribeiro replied to Randy's discussion Copter-3.3 beta testing
"Sorry if this has been asked before but it's confusing me... 
With an external compass attached, the compass_use and compass_use2 should be set to what ?
From my understanding compass_use is for internal and compass_use2 is for external, so this…"
Oct 15, 2015
Manuel Ribeiro replied to Randy's discussion Copter-3.3 beta testing
"Randy, just to let you know that using Marco's config file did the trick !!!
That or the change of GPS_TYPE to Ublox. I did those two at the same time, so I dont know for sure which made my quad fly well again
Thank you!"
Sep 18, 2015
Manuel Ribeiro commented on Randy's blog post ArduCopter 3.2.1 released
"@Randy, thanks for taking a look ! 
How/where can I check/look to on this side that the mission item is invalid (has the 255 command ) ? So I wont have to go outside to test the Auto behavior."
Sep 3, 2015
Manuel Ribeiro commented on Randy's blog post ArduCopter 3.2.1 released
"How could it happen to have 4 bad missions in a row ? Being two of them created with Mission Planner and the other 2 with tower app.
I'm gonna try to log more stuff and repeat this. However, this time I wont be able to fly over water to avoid a…"
Sep 1, 2015
Manuel Ribeiro commented on Randy's blog post ArduCopter 3.2.1 released
"hi 
I almost had three crash's about a month ago and still cant figure it out
They all happen as soon as I engage AUTO mode, the quad droped altitude very fast (if i'm not mistaken the motors turned off) and I had to switch to stabilize and apply…"
Sep 1, 2015
Manuel Ribeiro replied to Randy's discussion Copter-3.3 beta testing
"Thank you Randy
If I'm not able to 'save' my GPS unit by loading these parameters from another unit, what's the next step ? 
I mean, I've only changed a few parameters within ublox ucenter software, how can that make a gps useless :|"
Aug 27, 2015
Manuel Ribeiro replied to Randy's discussion Copter-3.3 beta testing
"@Pit do you mind sharing a copy of your M8N parameters from ublox ucenter software ? 
How to:
You need to save it as .txt
Open ublox ucenter , menu tools -> GNSS Configuration -> GNSS to file 

thanks"
Aug 26, 2015
Manuel Ribeiro replied to Randy's discussion Copter-3.3 beta testing
"Sorry Leon, but the .ubx file didnt work out.
You need to save it as .txt (ublox ucenter , menu tools -> GNSS Configuration -> GNSS to file 
please"
Aug 20, 2015
Manuel Ribeiro replied to Randy's discussion Copter-3.3 beta testing
"What's the diameter of that round one ?"
Aug 19, 2015
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