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Queensland


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I built a scratch built octocopter for videography


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Queensland Australia


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Nicholas Potts posted a discussion
As you can see, motor 1 (bottom left) isn't arming. It seems that the motor output isn't actually working. When I connect it to other escs, the same problem occurs. It sometimes manages to arm the esc, as seen at the beginning of the video, but when…
Jul 21, 2013
Nicholas Potts replied to J Dilling's discussion Sudden Stop of all Motors in Guided Mode
"The only unusual thing I can see that correlates with the engines is your throttle dropping at the same time. You were hovering at about 1250, then you put the throttle down to zero (1010) and then it dropped slightly to 996. Maybe some sort of…"
Apr 6, 2013
Nicholas Potts posted a discussion
Today I was doing some tuning to my octocopter. We had it hovering nicely for approx 30 seconds and I was about the start changing the stab_p value using the computer.The octo then changed into RTL. It flew upwards (I assume to get to the 10 metre…
Apr 6, 2013
Nicholas Potts commented on gutzmann.dusty's blog post Flite Test : ArduPilot Mega 2.5 - Review
"Can we have "Oh Crap" mode?"
Dec 24, 2012