"Hey Stu, after taking the board completely out, I noticed that if I press on the atmega chip, the mavlink connects and downloads all the parameters,If I don't it dispconnects, so basically the processer is making bad contact...only works when I put…"
"Really that's your quad,awesome,great job, here vous been giving tickets for flying quads,up to $1000 fines. Anyhow here are some pics if board I took it apart to see numbers,,will send by email"
"Again I want to thank you for your time and useful info, I will look into purchasing this board. And will downgrade my mission planner also, it pisses me off to know that although not flying properly, my quad was connecting no problem to mission…"
"is there a good one that you think I could purchase, I will be able to run the external gps-compass? And then I could use the mission planner firmware easier,"
"Well sorry Stu. I have tried all of them from 2.0 to this latest 3.2,,,,,so between messages I had tried again the latest one..which I had already, so no misleading intended,,,,thanks anyways, I am wondering if they have a specific firmware from…"
"thanks again for your time, I did try terminal and trying to connect with my port settings , and says
INit Arducopter V3.2
Free ram ;1824
FW Ver ; 120
Load all took 62064 us
,,,,,but that's it, I can't do any tests command lines,nothing
"Don't understand purpose of the video, this is operational instructions. My quad is not functional after the firmware upgrade ( wasn't flying properly anyways) so video is useless. I updated firmware and since have got the mavlink heartbeat message…"
"I believe its an arduino based model, It was recognized by mission planner in my initial setup during calibration and setup, connected to mavlink also, but I screwed up when updating firmware.
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"yes , sorry, I have tried windows 7,8 and XP, different computers(of course) and different cables,port settings all tried, mission planner older versions, different firmwares. I will say that I have a seraphi P (DJI clone) copter and flashed…"
I have purchased a seraphi p quadcopter 5 months ago and have not been able to got it at all. It is a RTF model with gps,compass. I had noticed one motor did not turn on start up sometimes, and did an esc calibration. But after a while it stopped…