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ACM for sale in UK

Hi

I have a ACM with a Mega 1.4 (1280) controller + oilpan, with GPS, Sonar, Magnetometer HMC5883 and a unused Mega 1.4 (2560) controller and 1 spare sonar for sale as a package. Offers around £200.00 the lot. Prefer to sell in UK, can demonstrate.

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GIVING UP ON TRICOPTER

The Tricopter yaw problem has been on the forum for months, and as fas as I can see it has not been resolved. There is a massive deadband on the yaw servo so that yaw control is like slamming a barn door, smooth control is impossible. A solution was

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Camera and Vibration

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I use a Canon Ixus 130 for HD Video on my Tricopter. Without any anti vibration measures the Video is a blurry mess, I've had to build a fairly elaborate camera mount to get rid of the vibration. The Antishake facility on the camera makes no diffe

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Camera Stabilisation

I've been experimenting with the camera stabilisation running 2.0.39. I have 2 servo's controlling roll and pitch on my gimbel carrying an Ixus 130 camera weighing 120 g. It's very good, but I think it could be better.

When I manually roll the airfram

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Tricopter Yaw Deadband

I've been flying 2.0.39 tri for a while, stable mode is very good, but there seems to be a problem with Yaw control. There is a large deadband around neutral joystick position, there is no servo movement until the stick is moved some distance away fr

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Is 2.0.39 tricopter code wrong ?

I downloaded 2.0.39 TRI using the Mission planner, originally I thought the Accelerometers were not working. but now it seems that all accels and gyro's are reversed.From the Wiki the Tri configuration looking from the back is motor 1 front right, mo

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NO ACCEL

I've just loaded 2.0.39 TRI onto my tricopter using mission planner 1.0.43. Set up the RC, accel offsets, etc without any problems, calibrated the ESC's okay. Everything seems to work fine.....but when do the pre flight test when you rotate the airfr

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Sonar problems

I've bought 2 Maxsonar EZ0 MB1200 from different UK suppliers. Neither seem to work. With a 5v supply the analogue and PWM outputs do not change with a target distance , in fact they do nothing. The datasheet is clear as to how they should function.H

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Sonar not working ?

I've just installed a XL-MaxSonar as per manuals instructions, but it does not seem to work.This is the setup;ArdupiratesNGhave commented in define IsSONAR on the ConfighHave checked the setting on the serial monitor under command 'o'have set altitud

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FBW idea

Hi all

I'm still using NG and looking forward to changing to ACM 2 when it's more debugged.

ACM 2 has various flight modes including stable and position hold like NG, and I see some people are working on a FBW system. I was wondering if it may be possi

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FYI

HelloRecently I have posted questions about, Compass does not work and will not calibrate, and RC controls don't work in X configuration.I'm using ArdupiratesNG, and I have found solutions which are either missing, unclear or wrong on the ArduPirates

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Another problem

Can I ask for some more help.I have had some good flights. I have just changed from + configuration to X. Dip switch 1 is now up and I turned everything off to reboot. I'm in Stable mode and the stability works fine, the motors do the right things...

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Compass problem

Had my first successful flights, very stable,very happy, but I still have a Compass problem.I'm running ArduPiratesNG with a HMC5843 REV 1.2 compass mounted components down pins forward. When I try and calibrate it using the CLI I get a message 'Magn

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GYRO FAULT

I recently bought a set of arducopter electronics from DiyD shop and have a big problem getting any decent performance in any flight mode. Looking at the raw sensor data in the Configurator I noticed the Pitch gyro had a low output in comparison to t

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Configurator problems

Hi All

 

I've just got the latest Arducopter electronics hardware APM 1.4, sensor board, magnetometer and Mediatek GPS. After a little effort I uploaded the ArduPiratesNG software okay.

 

My problem is with the Configuator tool, I've tried VER.2.1 and 2.

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