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Center of gravity and PID settings

Hey all,

 

    I have a custom home made frame and noticed with my 2x 2100mah batterys, the CG is about 2.5" below the props. Am I right that the lower the cg is the lower the P will be due to the quad already wants to right itself? If this is so, addi

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Compass works but only north is correct

Hi all,

   After running the APM mission planner several times and manually entering declination in the cli, my compass works but only North is correct. As I rotate the quad by hand, East and West are off a bit, South is way off. My declination is 5.5

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Live video problems

I have been trying to get the live video overlay to work and have a couple problems. I am running win7 home with a dell xps laptop. If I use the built in web cam, the mission planner will slooooow down so much it is unuseable. The video will work but

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Is my magnetometer bad?

I have gone through the setup in the newest mission planner and using the diy magnetometer, newest ac2 code loaded through mission planner. Everything seems to work when I view flight data except heading, it is stuck at about 354deg. it will change w

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My first Quad with custom frame

Just finished building my first quad. I custom built the frame with 1/8" ply, 3/4" square alum tube, and a glad ware container. It hovers very nice and smooth. BP18A ESC's, BP2217-9 motors, 10x4.7 props, 2x 3s1p 2100mah packs, custom power distributi

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