"Robert Perkins, I had exactly the same problem with my setup. The Spektrum satellite failsafes work perfectly, but i was only able to fly about 500m away, so i decided to fit an Orange DSMX receiver. All controls worked well, took it on my first…"
"Right, after hours of testing, unplugging and fault elimination, i finally found the culprit and solved the power reset issue.
it was the pixhawk power module. After watching some youtube videos and research i learnt that the power module only…"
"Still having problems with this, very weird, i put my quad on the bench, took the props off, connected a 3s lipo, if i throttle up slowly it works fine, but if it is quick throttle up, the pixhawk resets. escs are cold, lipo is fully charged. not…"
Not too sure what caused this, i am running an alien X frame with 60amp esc's and Turnigy D3548/4 1100kv motors with 5000mah 4s lipo. i am only getting about 7mins flight time. the esc's seem to run warm although the motors are cool. 10" 3 blade 4.5…
"The other problem i have is my channel 6 is assigned to the pitch control so i have no way of assigning it to the rate_yaw_p. this is probably a result of me setting the pixhawk up as a heli and not as an acro as other posts suggest. so i have no…"
Thank you for your quick reply, you have pointed me in the right direction. however from what i can gather there is not fixed settings and they will vary from heli to heli.
Its just a matter of trial error.
Hi,I have built a traditional 450 sized heli using a pixhawk autopilot, I am also using a spektrum DX8Everything is setup and the heli flies. the only problem is is the tail wags a lot, i have previously built traditional 450 helis and encountered…
"Hi, i have exactly the same issue with my pixhawk controller, i connect to mission planner, successfully update the firmware, calibrate it. then unplug it, reconnect it to mission planner and none of my settings have been saved.
I am convinced the…"