Tom Rieckhoff's Discussions (6)

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DF13 connector to larger connector?

Hi,

Does anyone know of a connector that converts from the DF13 (1.25 mm pitch) connector, Like on the APM, to a regular bread board (2.54 pitch) connector? I would like to use the larger connector so I can build a wiring harness for my FPV airplane.

T

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Range with 3DR radios

Hi,

I did a first flight with my 3DR telemetry radio a few days ago. I only flew a distance from home of about 0.4 km and I think I am getting a very weak signal. I am using the stock antenna and the default settings (64 airspeed) I attached a graph o

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9xr radio and throttle failsafe?

Hi,

I am having trouble getting my signal lost/ throttle failsafe working correctly and hope someone can help me out.

The hardware: Turnigy 9XR radio tx, APM 2.5, Spectrum AR8000 rx, Turnigy dlux 40A SBEC speed controller. 

My understanding of the theor

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Please check my wiring!

HI,

Please look at the attached photo and tell me if I have my Ardupilot power wired correctly. I have the voltage regular wired to the PM connector. The BEC is wired into the output rails. I have removed the JP1 jumper. 

Am I missing something? I don'

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DX7i channel setup?

HI,

Can you point me to a discussion to set up my DX7i for the APM 2.5? How do you set up for manual flaps and use the 3 position switch to set flight modes. I would not like to use the knob (aux2) to set flight modes.

Thanks in advance.

Tom

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