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Cape Town, WP


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Mostly Quads


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Cape Town


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Paul commented on Max Levine's blog post ArduCopter (TBS Discovery Style)
"Nice work Max.
Once you've tuned it, would you mind sharing your param file?
Thx"
Jan 18, 2013
Paul replied to Paul's discussion One motor gets extremely hot in South African DIY Drones User Group
"My Quad
NTM 1000kv motors, 3S 3300mah battery and 30A esc. These are 11" props, but also tried my original 10" props, same thing. Total weight of the quad is 1.4kg and the thrust per motor should be around 0.8kg
per motor. Only thing different is…"
Jan 5, 2013
Paul replied to Paul's discussion One motor gets extremely hot in South African DIY Drones User Group
"Now i dont know what to do next, I've exchanged everything back to the old ESC's, old motors and old battery and still the right back motor get extremely hot!
All the APM stuff is done, leveling, radio calibration, etc.
I maybe thought it could be…"
Jan 5, 2013
Paul replied to Paul's discussion One motor gets extremely hot in South African DIY Drones User Group
"Update: Changed out the motor and still having the same issue. The ESC on that side also seems a bit hotter than the rest. Im using a seperate BEC for the power of the board etc, so disconnected the power cable on all ESC's.
Are my thinking correct…"
Jan 2, 2013
Paul posted a discussion in South African DIY Drones User Group
I have an issue with one of my motors thats getting extremely hot. I changed my ESC's and battery yesterday to 4S. Before I used ESC's and 3S battery on the same rig, without issues. Its a quad, X configured, but now the back rightside motor get so…
Jan 1, 2013
Paul commented on Duran - ALTI's blog post 10 properties shot in under 2 hrs - SteadiDrone H6X
"Very nice!"
Nov 22, 2012
Paul posted a discussion in South African DIY Drones User Group
Hi,Im relatively new to APM. I have the APM2.5 with latest Arducopter firmware loaded. I've tuned out my Stabilise flight and its sweet, but I cant seem to tune in AltHold. As I understand it, it doesn't help going on the loiter or anything else,…
Oct 27, 2012
Paul replied to Kim Lillås's discussion Copter slowly yaws without user input and with compass installed
"I have the same issue, over time, when hovering in stabilize mode, the copter seems to yaw clockwise. If I correct this, it starts to yaw counter-clockwise (slowly).
What I've done so far (any maybe if you haven't done this Kim, you can try), is re…"
Oct 26, 2012
Paul commented on Paul's blog post Custom H-Quad with APM 2.5 and ArduCopter 2.7.3
"It propably looks like alot of elecs, but its just the normal APM2.5 board, my HUGE x9 RX (will replace with FrSky soon), the 3DR telemetry at the back and the GPS at the front. The rest is all the ESC cables."
Oct 4, 2012
Paul posted a blog post
My first APM and first H-Quad. Im am VERY pleased, this is the maiden, unfortunately its indoors as it was raining outside, but it is very stable. Using the default out of the box settings. Sorry for the bad video, had to use my phone and it has an…
Oct 4, 2012
Paul replied to Graham Miller's discussion Ardupilot Mega 2.5 Case
"I mailed them in the past week and their answer to me was within the next month .... :("
Sep 29, 2012