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Merlin replied to Gábor Zoltán's discussion Adding extra functions to MinimOSD
"Hello,

can anyone give me a link to the lastest plane release? The link in the first post is not working."
Nov 11, 2014
Merlin commented on Paul's blog post (A free flexible freeOPV) I could see a couple of these on a wing!
"Hi,

I don't think it makes much sense to put them onto a plane.
For example for my glider I have 1.8m*15cm area I can cover. The radiation is about 500W/m^2. If you have a efficiency of 10% you get 13.5W. If you power your plane with 3S this is…"
Mar 22, 2014
Merlin replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.1 released!
"Hello,
I have activated logging of motors, IMU and compass. In this picture when flying forward there is some unwanted roll and yaw.

Motors look good to me.
Thee gyro "sees" the yaw as you can see in the images (i hope gyro units is rad/s). Also…"
Feb 7, 2014
Merlin replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.1 released!
"Hello,
can somebody please look into this? When i turn the Copter and fly forward the copter will yaw and rolls to one side. You can see this in this video at 3:30 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVn4wgIdYgI) there is no yaw or roll input and on…"
Feb 4, 2014
Merlin replied to Randy's discussion AC-3.1 autotune support discussion
"Hi,

here is my log of a successful AutoTune. I was tuning with the gimbal attached but tighened the gimbal so it can not jiggle.
Parameters before were Stab P 3.5, Rate P 0.1, Rate I 0.1 and Rate D 0.003 but not tuned very well.neue…"
Dec 1, 2013
Merlin replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.0.1 released!
"Hello,

first, this firmware flies great. Thaks to the devs.
But I discovered a problem. If I trigger Failsafe RTL the copter is spinning around the yaw-axis?
I have a Y6, did all callibrations and also the compassmot and have low vibrations. I did…"
Aug 23, 2013
Merlin replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter 2.9 / 2.9.1 released
"Hello,
my quad crashed today when switching from manual mode to RTL. The copter started spinning and lost height. The battery was not empty and after rebuilding the landing gear everything is working normally. I will also upload the video from the…"
May 28, 2013