Dusk flight this evening, all going well until I could see the quad swaying about so started to descend at which point, when I could see her clearer, she then starting pitching about too. Anyway, she landed fine, no damage.
In the video, you can see t
Read more…I used to use channel 7 for autotune but I now have that for a shutter release so I programmed autotune as flight mode 4 which means going through positionhold first. Autotune wouldn't start so do you have to be in althold before going to autotune us
Read more…My Spyder 700 is pretty well set up but with a relatively heavy camera/gimbal set up on a relatively small diameter drone, with a 30mm lens on my Samsung NX300 I am noticing micro movements when filming which I would like to remove/reduce if possible
Read more…I have just changed gimbals on my Spyder X8 from a Marcia Gopro to a much heavier Arris Zhaoyun Pro nex size gimbal to which I've fitted a Samsung NX300 so I've probably added ~1.5kg.
I haven't yet done a new autotune but will do soon.
On the second fl
Read more…So I have been flying with a 3DR Pixhawk for 2 years or so now without a single hardware issue but how long can this continue to be considered as reliable?
I guess that's an almost impossible question to answer as it will be the subject of many extern
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Just finishing a new X8 quad build running Pixhawk, Copter 3.3.3, T Motor U5s and T Motor Air 40A ESCs. The whole setup has gone without a hitch, everything spot on apart from the fact that the ESCs won't arm and emit an alarm which according
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I recently changed the rubber mounts on my Pixhawk mount as my vibes were exceeding the recommended limits, this has made them worse so I'll revert or try something else. However I've been getting some slow loop lines in auto log analysis and
Read more…Just a public thank you to 3DR for the lovely decals that arrived today all the way from the US (am in the UK).. They're great quality, great design and much appreciated, thank you!
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It appears that I had a radio loss possibly caused by a connector popping off the APM Mini, now taped. Thrin & Throut go from 1000 to 0 on line 5911.
This is the flight: https://youtu.be/lsKtaSKtQ28
I'm wondering why she didn't RTL as all the pa
Read more…I feel a bit of a noob asking this but having had my mini quad flying quite nicely I did an autotune that appears to have unlocked the roll and pitch so I locked them again and averaged out the PIDs. I then loaded 3.1.5 after reading that perhaps thi
Read more…I'm sure this is something daft that I'm not doing but having written new params and refreshed the screen in extended tuning, my channel 7 & 8 options aren't showing in the extended tuning screen, please see attached? This is on an APM Mini.. I had t
Read more…As far as I can see I have set channel 6 for in flight tuning but the PID values don't change when I rotate the channel 6 knob..?
APM Mini 3.1 with GPS on a Tarot 250 frame. Screenshot is attached with the param list.
Thanks.
Read more…I read with interest the discussion concerning the NEO-M8N in the 3.2 beta testing topic (~page 47 onwards). This has prompted a few questions if I may:
I'm using the 3DR uBlox GPS with my Pixhawk on my Sky Hero Spy with great effect, she's really dia
Read more…Am I safe to assume that I can power an APM Mini from a normal APM Power module, i.e. 5.37 volts?
Thanks.
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High hopes dashed this evening probably through my own stupidity but I would welcome a diagnosis of the attached log, please.
This is a Tarot 250 mini quad with APM Mini 3.1 and 6M gps. All seems good, took off about 3 feet and kept her fairly
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I'm building a Tarot 250 mini quad and I've spent hours this evening trying to get Arducopter 3.2.1 to work without success.. 3.1 works fine but when I load 3.2.1 the accelerometer calibration fails (doesn't get past the first setting) and no
Read more…Fitted a new Castle Creations CC BEC as a dedicated power supply to my Pixhawk yesterday, programmed it at 5.3 volts, my cheap multimeter measures the voltage at 5.23v to 5.27v (kind of fluctuates a lot) yet from a brief flight log last night, the lo
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Long story short, I've been going through a few Graupner voltage telemetry sensors so it was suggested that my voltage regulator may be causing the faults so I went about swapping them over and retaining my existing vr for redundancy (proposed to
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My Minimosd works perfectly with my Pixhawk and Fatshark goggles but I have just installed a 3DR radio and the Minimosd stopped working. Remove the radio and it's back As the radio and Minimosd connect to the two separate telemetry ports on the P
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