After reading a couple of successful posts about the Align APS GPS system, I downloaded their manual and see how it is connected. Align still use their old 3Gx unit for stabilization, and using the new GPS unit just to provide navigation such as way
Read more…We just had a local meetup with bunch of enthusiasts showing what everybody have done with their flying helis, mulitis, and whatever that flies. The wind gust was horrible, but we had lot of fun sharing ideas and what everyone have done and what each
Read more…I've never heard of shield or oil pan before until I stumble on the Audrino boards. Why are they call what they are? Shield? oil pan? I would have never guessed what they mean by itself.
Read more…Maybe I was lucky and got the Altitude Hold (AH) worked the very first time. After I have the V2.5.5 firmware installed and fixed my latest crash, my AH no longer work. Once I switch to AH mode, the heli immediately slammed onto the ground with neg
Read more…I've already noticed that my GPS light won't come on at times last week, so I re-seat the daughter board and solder up the power pins. Today, my heli did some sudden 90 degree yaw turns. I later looked at the tlog, and there were no mx,my,mz data.
Read more…Since my heli was grounded, I had a lot of bench time in the last few days. Let's show the progression of where I have it mounted.
My original design:
My daughter said that it looked too "wirey". I kinda agree.
Few crashes later, took them all apa
Read more…Just finished moving the APM2 to under the heli like how people do with their APM1. Test flew it the first time, it seemed highly sensitive. Well, just updated APM Planner to 1.1.79 as well. Not sure if it has anything to do with that. Or maybe j
Read more…I downloaded the latest version arduino-1.0-windows from the arduino site and it compiles the ArduCopter V2.5.4 just fine. Do I really need the relaxed version?
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My goal is to have the heli RTL when the signal is lost. Since the ESC is directly connected to the receiver, when signal is lost, the ESC would power down. Anyway to get ESC to be controlled by the APM2? My plan is to have the ESC running in gove
Read more…What does it do? I just updated the APM Planner to 1.1.77 and it changed the TRIM_THROTTLE from 425 to 531. I just started to re-tune my PID and throttle hold went first. Bam! The heli hit right to the ground in a split second as soon as I switch
Read more…The wind is very gusty today and really not good for testing. Since I just got it working yesterday, I just couldn't resist to test again. Today, I have all the FPV gear mounted. The heli weight increased from 0.99Kg to 1.35Kg!! I had to move the thr
Read more…Finally got a good weather day that fall into a weekend. I went to my daughter's school's parking lot to try to tune my heli today. With enough room and let the heli freely roaming around, I've concluded that the heli is going to drift unpredictabl
Read more…Wow! What an adrenaline rush! After some more tuning, I felt comfortable to get my heli some real flying, Since I just had a sonar installed and the sonar numbers looked fine from the console test, I took her out for some Attitude Hold (AH) test.
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I guess I missed the boat and I'm the only one playing with the APM 2 on traditional heli at the moment. :D
I guess it's better to start a new thread on a different topic.
How do you tune the PID for Pitch and Roll? Are the Rate numbers are work like a flybar and the Stab numbers are for self leveling? So, I could zero out the Stab numbers and tune the R
Read more…At first, I have the jumper connected on JP1 to use a single power to power both the servos and the APM 2. Since I've noticed the servos were twitching at random time, I've removed the jumper and use a separate ESC and battery to power the APM and t
Read more…I have an Align 450 Pro v2 FBL that used to connected with a Skookum SK720 tuned to close to perfection with extremely low vibes. Now I removed the SK720 and trying to get the APM 2 to work on it. Finally got all the trims, limits, zero pitch cente
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