Gender
Male
About
Location
Olympia, WA
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Have been into RC since I was younger, first with cars, then some aborted takeoffs with planes (literally), then on to helicopters (with slightly more success than the planes), and now on to quads and APM. Love creating machines and testing and fiddling with them.
Hometown:
Olympia, WA
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"This happened to me also on the PC version. On the Mac version it connects, loads parameters, and then about 10 seconds later says "connection lost" and nothing updates anymore."
"Also, how do you get to that page on the wiki for Tricopters? Other than following the direct link, obviously. I had no idea there was a Tricopter page."
"Cool, I will take a look again at home tonight. The parameter that Johnex wasn't listed for me, but I will look again for this one.
I'd be willing to help work on the wiki. I swear I'm not as much of a rookie as I have made myself look like on this…"
I'd be willing to help work on the wiki. I swear I'm not as much of a rookie as I have made myself look like on this…"
"Right, I got that. But no, not done. What I'm saying is that in AC3.3rc7, the behavior of the tri is unchanged regardless of whether this parameter is set to 1 or -1. That's what those logs I posted are showing."
"Pretty sure that's automatic when you hit Refresh on APM Planner 2, but OK, I'll fire up the PC and check in APM Planner 1."
"The problem I'm having is Pixhawk is not reversing the yaw servo like it should. So when the tricopter yaws right (because a tricopter will always have unbalanced torque from the props), Pixhawk commands left yaw to correct, but because it's…"
"Likewise. I don't know what's going on all of a sudden. Like I said before, if I flash 3.2.1 on this thing, it works fine. Just confirmed that this morning after posting my logs. But if I put 3.3RC7 in, whirling death blossom."
"I'm not seeing any of those parameters in my list."
"That's fine if the quad is moving the wrong way relative to your sticks, but for anything gyro-based that won't work since the signal originates from the FC and not the radio."
"Roger, figured that's what you meant."
"Strange, I didn't even have the tricopter yet in April, and I flashed the latest version sometime in early June and that was the version that worked."
"Aha! I figured it was something like that. I will go plug the tricopter in and see what that does. Thanks!"
"I'm primarily using APM Planner 2 for the Mac. I was having connection issues on my laptop, which has been pretty regular and I'm not the only one who has had issues on the Mac version of APM Planner 2 for some time now over several versions…"
"OK, guys, best my novice investigation skills can tell, something has changed recently for tricopters. I'm fairly certain I flew 3.3RC5, but I know I have flown 3.3RC3 or RC4, because I have used the new autotune mode, one axis at a time, and things…"
"I don't think that's my issue. GCS says my ATC_ACCEL_Y_MAX is 27000. When I said my tail was sluggish, I just meant when I was wagging the tail by hand (with the props off and motors spooled up so the yaw correction kicks in) to confirm that the…"
"Is there any work still going on for tricopters in AC3.3? 3.3-rc7 seems to have made mine unflyable. Wondering if something was changed recently that I wasn't aware of. Also posted about this in the main AC3.3 thread but that thing is a beast and I…"
