Gender
Male
About
Location
Oakland, CA
About Me:
Im a full time dad, part time surfer, and have been obsessed over UAV since July of 2013, the day I was surfing at pleasure point, and a guy was filming overhead with a quad. I watched the video that night, and now im hooked!
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
building multirotor aircraft, and making it work! I'm currently scratching my noodle setting up a quad with APM 2.6. I had lots of fun learning UAV with kk2, but I've moved on!
Hometown:
oakland
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"I recently installed apm 2.6 on my mini talon. I know I did the level calibration and accel calib correctly, HUD is saying level, and I think (?) I did the vtail setup correctly (maybe) but in fbwa/stab the plane pitches nose down. I went over…"
"Hi Huges, did you manage to get the minimosd working with the pixhawk? If so, Id love to hear how its done, as Im struggling with it...."
"Im a little confused here, as Im trying to set up the offical "throttle failsafe" with my pixhawk/x8r/taranis. I am using the x8r with sbus cable only. when I turn off the tx, the pwm doesnt drop, it stays where it is currently at. my confusion…"
"Mp wont accept the old value of 89. I put it in, and it just refreshes back to 80."
"Thanks! I will try that this evening. I flew it today, just a test, 3-4 feet up. Needed a lot of throttle just to hover. I'm thinking it's related"
"Thanks Dave. I hope I remembered the original value correctly! I think it was 89. Any idea how to find that out?"
"I just noticed my signal wires, wrapped around a ferrite ring, semi cut, due to friction by clean plate on my flip frame. Prob what caused signal loss?!?"
"I forgot to add, it was running great before I changed to 3.1.5. Dozens of flights.."
Hi,last weekend I installed arducopter 3.1.5 on my Pixhawk. Its a quad running sunnysky 3108 720's afro20aESC's. After I did the FW change, I noticed MOT_TCRV_MAXPCT was like 89, was highlighted in yellow. I set it down to 80, which made the…
"I'm building a flip pro fpv...."
"I'm currently building my 7th quad, and I still sometimes get the motor order wrong first time out....."
"Look up stick calibration. It's pretty common. It's doing each ESC separately without the APM. Do that, and see if it makes a difference. That's what did it for me. Also, with the "flip" check, and double check to make sure you have the correct…"
"A couple things you mentioned. The ESC's could be the issue, as I had the same problem. Manually calibrating each one, and then after each one was calibrated, an auto calibrate through the APM is what did the trick for me. Also checking the throttle…"
"Motors spinning right directions?"
"after reading a post on RTL failure due to motors stopping, I realized I didnt set the failsafe to the recommended way through MP with <950uS on throttle. it seems like the motors are cutting out when the pix kicks in to RTL. Anyone? bad idea, I…"
Hi all,Today I was flying and testing new ezuhf tx/rx. This was the 4th flight with this new equipment. My flying field has some high power transmission lines nearby. When I flew out 3-500 feet the pixhawk would switch to RTL. this happened a few…
