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Clackmannanshire
About Me:
I am a student, reasonable IT skills (used to work in IT), terrible flying skills (hence autopilots seem like a great idea :)
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
I'm using a 3DR to do vegetation mapping for my dissertation (if it all works anyway ;). Very interested on how this could help conservation efforts by reducing costs for high resolution aerial imagery.
Hometown:
Tillicoultry
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"Looks good, I see it says that the 5.8Ghz link has a transmit power upto 27 dBm, does this mean that it is configurable to a lower value (i.e. to make it legal in the UK)?"
Hi All,A real quick question that I can't seem to find the answer for ... if when using stablise or althold flight modes (and not using simple or super simple), is the onboard/external compass used at all to correct the yaw of the aircraft?I was…
"Hi Hugues, thanks for taking the time to have a look and yeah from what I had picked up in the forum is does seem to be a niggling issue. I will just have to keep an eye out for it to see if it continues and/or gets any worse, in case that signals…"
"Thanks Thorsten, the flight was ~14 minutes long and I will check that link out.
Regards,
S."
Regards,
S."
Hi All,Running a little survey last thursday looking for some Giant Hogweed and seemingly all went well with the flights (running a Vulcan Octocopter using Pixhawk with arducopter 3.2.1). However on checking the log for the third and final flight…
"Shameless bump ;)"
Hi,Have recently built up an Octocopter, which is using a 3DR pixhawk with 3.2.1 and has been calibrated (compass MOT etc), auto tuned and generally is running really rather well, but for one issue, YAW whilst in automatic mode.The below graph shows…
"I am in the process of building a Vulcan octocopter at the moment ... giant sized thing ... the quality of the materials is excelent (very nice quality carbon fibre) ... Hugues, what is the black 'dome' like cover you have on the top there?"
"Hmm, saying that just identified the below as well. It seems that once the aircraft reached its take off point during the RTL phase of the mission,it then intitated a heading change (by the looks of it to match the heading it had during takeoff). …"
"Thanks for taking a look Randy, and yeah I am thinking it was most likely an ESC failure or perhaps auto cutoff... I will replace that one ESC just in case. I had manually calibrated the ESC's but I will re-calibrate this time through the pixhawk…"
Hi There,I need a bit of help looking through one of my logs, as I had a crash a couple of days ago due to a single motor stopping during landing, but I can't work out why it should have occured (the motor is seemingly working fine now!!)...A bit …
"Hi Richard,
Had the same problem myself and just fixed it, it would appear to be an issue with the mission planner installer not correctly installing everything.
As you have done I uninstalled the old mission planner, removed the residual "Mission…"
Had the same problem myself and just fixed it, it would appear to be an issue with the mission planner installer not correctly installing everything.
As you have done I uninstalled the old mission planner, removed the residual "Mission…"
"If you are using a 3 cell battery your voltage should be starting off from ~12.6 volts, and will sag to ~11.6 on intial load ... a starting voltage of 11.8 volts sounds like your battery is not fully charged (more like less than half full) so that…"
"Hi,
Could you add a picture of your quad with all equipment etc installed ready to fly?
I had issues with mine which was due to the telemtry aerial I was using, which would flex slightly in flight and get too close to the the compass in the…"
Could you add a picture of your quad with all equipment etc installed ready to fly?
I had issues with mine which was due to the telemtry aerial I was using, which would flex slightly in flight and get too close to the the compass in the…"
"An update for this before I completely forget (yet again).
The original issue still stands as unexplained but would appear to be some sort of magnetometer failure/interferance.
The later analysis by myself (from the 5th of august onwards) was…"
The original issue still stands as unexplained but would appear to be some sort of magnetometer failure/interferance.
The later analysis by myself (from the 5th of august onwards) was…"
"Ahha ... fixed it myself :)
For some reason the log file had a single malformed line in it, in this case it was line 12903 which was a CTUN message that was spread over two rows and had some very large numbers in sonar alt (which was not being…"
For some reason the log file had a single malformed line in it, in this case it was line 12903 which was a CTUN message that was spread over two rows and had some very large numbers in sonar alt (which was not being…"
