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Hope I'm putting this in the right forum to start off with.
I'm having a problem with the speed of a motor on a quad using a Pixhawk. It's motor 3, it's slower than the rest. Noticeable particularly at low RPMs. The interesting thing is when I
Hi everyone,
I've been flying with a Pixhawk for a little while and probably getting away with the minimum amount of knowledge required to make it work.#
After a recent crash (which involved the Pixhawk) due to a lack of elevator authority (see the DIY
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I'm currently designing a kind of motor glider (ish) and am planning on using a v-tail.
I wanted to ask your opinion on the sizing of the tail that I've come up with and I'll run through some figures that I've used.
Here's some useful numbers:
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I have recently set up a Pixhawk on a quad and the second time around a waypoint mission wanted to bring it down early in case the battery was close to being low. Just as I was switching to STABILISE mode it lost altitude and despite giving a full
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There's a few issues I'd like to bring up here.
Here's the background: just loaded copter onto Pixhawk and plugged it into a quad frame (had it in the frame before but used the Pixhawk in a plane for a bit). Connected via mission planner and I
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I'm looking for a motor/prop combination that will give me good endurance (over 45 minutes flying times) on my model. It seems like something along the lines of a relatively low KV motor (maybe this 400 KV one: http://www.rctigermotor.com/html
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I'm a relatively new Pixhawk pilot and have been flying this flight controller for about a year and a half. Last night (flying at night to try and record bats as part of a project), I set up a test auto route for a new area and flipped the pla
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I have a bit of a problem that I'd like some help with if possible.
Inspired by conservationdrones.org I've teamed up with one of my friends who works in bat conservation in order to use drones (quadcopter) to survey bat populations.
In order to
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