My GPS has gone defunct from my 4 years old Pixhawk. I have been looking on the web but I am a little unsure by what to replace it. The GPS I have is a 3DR GPS with Compass Kit, with a GPS DF13 plug for the pixhawk and an I2C cable/DF13 plug for the
Read more…I am flying a Tarot 650 frame with a Pixhawk autopilot for some time now. I have autotuned it and it flies well. Since two weeks it flies "jerky". The motors de-/accelerates suddenly and the whole thing kind of jumps through the air. I can fly it, bu
Read more…In mission planner I try to relate multiple items with each other, for example acclX and barometer pressure. All I see are two straight lines because their scales are too far apart. Is there a way to have one graph assigned to a left scale and anothe
Read more…I am building my new Tarot 650 and have started experimenting with FPV which I bought from 3DR. I power my FPV camera and transmitter directly from my 3S battery. The image is transmitted correctly but as soon as I start the motors the receiver monit
Read more…In a week time I more or less ruined my pixhawk by unpluggin some plugs from it (see photo). First I tried to unplug the buzzer because it really makes a deafening noise. I ended up with two loose wires. Well, the result is the same (no noise) but I
Read more…My Pixhawk telemetry shows a lot of things, but not voltage, current and % of battery used as it does in my Ardupilot piloted quad. I did the following to check this:
- it happens in mission planner, APM planner 2, tower and droidplanner (both version
Read more…I tested my new frame with 3S batteries and all worked fine. When I connected a 4S battery it reacted very *jumpy*. A slight change of the throttle made the thing jump high in the sky or almost crash on the ground. My interpetation (which my be wrong
Read more…Hi,the default settings for my arducopter (version 2.6) are not correct. The copter (DJI F450) reacts extremely fast to all changes and it is very wobbly. Manual says that this is due to RATE_RLL_P and RATE_PIT_P being too high. I tried to change the
Read more…I am trying for several weeks now to persuade my arducopter controlled quad to fly. That is not succesful due to erratic turning motors. It appears that each motor has its own speed that constantly varies, even when the thing is standing on the groun
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I am building a DJI-F450 with Opto ESC's and an Ardupilot 2.6. I read in a lot of forums that a BEC is needed and I wondered for what? The Ardupilot is powered by the power module and the Opto's are powered directly by the battery, a 3S LiPo. They
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