Vincent Mees's Discussions

GCS

Any sunny, hot, sunday, a couple of Leffe's and this is the result ;-)

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Question about logging

When does a logging really start? As soon when the battery is plugged in or when motors are armed?

When does a second, third,... log start?

Is there somemore info available on the kmz files that link to google earth. What do the colours mean and what

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Arducopter 2.0.25

I'm having a very hard time tuning PID's.

Frame is a MK50 with KDA 20-22L and 10x4,7 APC's.

Frame, motors and props are leveled.

Nevertheless, pid tuning is very hard to tune.

I followed the updated troubleshoot on the wiki.

Increased D for R&P but that w

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Replacement motors

I've been using the KDA 20-22L since the beginning of my quad project that started in september 2010.

I would like to hear some opinions concerning an alternative to the KDA.

I'm using a MK50 frame and would like a little more power and quality.

Any sug

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ESC programming

I just bought some new ESC's, Turnigy Plush 30A.

Calibration goesfine but what about the following settings?

Cutoff threshold Low/Medium/High

Startmode Normal/Soft/Supersoft

Timing Low

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relay in ACM 2.XXX

Is the relay RC cabable in the new code?

Where can I activate it?

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Tweaking alt hold.

When I engage Alt hold the quad climbs a little bit and drops again, then goes up but a little further. Then goes down again and the distance keeps getting bigger.

I only use baro.

Which PID has influence on this vertical oscillation?

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flying 2.0.20.

Waw,

Its getting quite close to my previous ardupirateNG code which was very stable.

Now its just a matter of fine tuning and no more yaw issues for me.

I've loaded the code with arduino and did CLI setup.

I use a sparkfun mag and xbee is configured for

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flying 2.0.19

Curious as I am I loaded the code with the latest MP. All went well but when I armed the motors and fly , only two motors started. And the quad kept turning to the right without liftoff.

Then I loaded 2.0.19 with arduino, and did CLI setup. I couldn't

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can't save log files.

In order to find the problem with my yaw issue I'm using the log. Dowloading is no problem. But when I want to browse the logs, all are 0kb. When viewed in notepad its blank.

Now I copy paste the data into a new log extension file and can view the log

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Resetting APM/IMU before flight

Since I build my arducopter, most of the time after I connected the battery the quad can't fly immediatly.

The symptoms are all props spinning when giving throttle, no reaction when doing pre flight tilt, only two props turn, ...

I just have to reset

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Only X mode in NG code

Something strange happened.

I was reloading the code and because I fly in +mode I defined is as ussual.

// Frame build condiguration
#define FLIGHT_MODE_+ // Traditional "one arm as nose" frame configuration
//#define FLIGHT_MODE_x // Frame orientat

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GPS data to groundstation using xbee

My MTK GPS arrived and I upgraded it for use with Arducopter.

I get a nice 3D fix when outdoors.

Now I would like to get the GPS info over XBEE to use in a ground control station.

Xbee allready works with configurator at 115200bps.

Any suggestions?

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vibration free camera mount FPV

Now that my quad is inthe air quite stable and that I'm waiting for GPS, magneto, ...

I was looking for a vibration free methodof installing a FPV camera.

I've allready fitted a small pinhole camera (MD80) on a mount with 3 vibration dampers but with n

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Arducopter in the air with mikrokopter frame.

Hi,

First af all I want to thank every contributor to the Arducopter project for their hard work and commitment.

A few months ago I got hooked to this project and first of all did a lot of reading.

Last month I started ordering the different parts and

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IMU problem

I finished my quad, uploaded software and calibrated everythingaccording to the wiki.Everything went well entil suddenly only two props would turn.

I checked the situation (quad standing still) with the configurator and it came up looking like this.

G

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RC wiring

Having no RC background, I hope to get some answers on the following questions.

-How is the RC receiver powered in the Arducopter setup when following this . Is the receiver powered through the APM?

-I read that you have the choice of powering APM &

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Newbie question concerning Libraries and Firmware.

Hi,

I've been reading a lot on different forum and probably got bitten by the Arducopter ;-)

I'm planning to do this step by step. I just ordered the APM and oilpan.

Looking in to software I stumbled across this http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wi

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