About

Gender

Male


Location

Salisbury, NC


About Me:

Long time RC flyer and new to automated flight


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Photography using Airplanes


Hometown:

514 Clark Rd


Activity Feed

Robert Caraway posted a discussion
I just went through the configuration for setting up autotakeoff on my plane.  I am testing the take off as part of a route.  When I trigger the route while on the runway, the motor will not spool up.  I get no throttle.  I tried going to full…
Aug 16, 2017
Robert Caraway replied to Gonzalo Garat's discussion APM 3.2 QUADCOPTER Err: EKF_CHECK-2 / Err: FAILSAFE_ EKF-1
"Paul
I am new to the forum and need to find someone with expertise in interpreting error.  I seem to get servo fluctuation while on the ground in FBWA mode as well as other auto modes.  I think this is traced to my IMU2 being noisy.  Any D that I…"
Mar 9, 2016
Robert Caraway replied to Robert Caraway's discussion Pixhawk Gyro Noise
"I must be doing something wrong.  Plenty of views but no responses.  Did I post in the wrong place?"
Mar 9, 2016
Robert Caraway replied to Postal's discussion Pixhawk external IMU supplementation \ Autpilot's performance discussion
"I noticed on my Pixhawk that one of the two IMU units tends to be noisy at 20hz.  I really do not want to turn the filter lower for fear of adding delay to responses.  I would like to turn off the IMU2 and add a third, better, quieter IMU.  Is this…"
Mar 8, 2016
Robert Caraway replied to Robert Caraway's discussion Pixhawk Gyro Noise
"I see a couple of interesting params that might need changing.  They are 
INS_ACC_BODYFIX and 
INS_TRIM_OPTION

What should these be set to?  The first one is set to IMU2, which happens to be the noisier of my two IMUs.  The second one is set to 1.…"
Mar 7, 2016
Robert Caraway replied to Paul Harris's discussion Low Price Pixhawk units out of China, anyone know anything about them in PIXHAWK
"For what it is worth, I have an HK32 and have been using it for the past few months in a test plane.  I have configured the plane to run basic routes and I am still doing some fine tuning.  As for quality, the only thing I do not like is the way the…"
Mar 7, 2016
Robert Caraway posted a discussion
I have a Pixhawk Clone in my Telemaster that am currently trying to tune.  I seem to have noise in my servos when I activate a flight mode other than MANUAL.  It seems that the noise is particularly strong on the roll/x axis.  After looking at the…
Mar 7, 2016
More…