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help Debuging the Arducopter???

I haven’t had time to fly for a while so I’ve forgot some of the details about this problem. But I would really like to “debug” my copter today. So what I’m looking for is some advice on how to do it, and what more information I can supply here.

 

Sona

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FPV camera for arducopter

I’m looking for a new FPV camera for my arducopter. I bought one of the cheap ones from hobbyking (sony something), which is absolute crape for FPV. A little bit of sunlight and I can’t see any thing L

 

Could I get some suggestions for a good one, pre

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simple mode forgets bearing

I've had a lot of truble with my copter. But now i've got simple mode working (more or less).

 

It works fine when I'm flying back and fourth facing the same direction, even for a long time. But if i spin the copter around a couple of times it looses i

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Murphy's law

What ever can go wrong always seems to go wrong on my quad. Its not offen flying wheater in norway, but today there is and everyhing is wrong with my quad. I've solved some problems here is what is remaining.

 

Flying beta 24, standrad arducopter

 

Probl

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Misson planning

Just got my loiter working :D :D on to misson planning, using APM Planner 1.0.0 i get this error when trying to upload waypoints:

 

 

Any idea whats worng?? Im setting home location, that should not be it.

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Loiter

With the new code beta23 my quad is verry unstable with the gps hold. Its accually better with no hold :) The gps hold worked greate on the RC2 version, and not so good on the ardupirates.

 

Any tips for fixing this. Its a normal arducopter frame, stan

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sonar Altitude Hold

Just mounted a sonar on my arducopter. When i use alt_hold mode it is not holding the alt at all. I've enabled sonar in cli and tested it, it all looks good. Any one know whats wrong??

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turnigy 9x lower frequency

Hi

 

Any one know if there exists a module to make the turnigy 9x run a lower frequency??

 

I'd like to use XBee 2.4ghz but my transmitter is also running this freq :(

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Strange radio behavure

I have a strange problem

 

I have seperate 5v supply connected to the RX. RX and apm are connected via a gound wire and the signal lines. This works fine when I am at home. But when I am at the location where i fly i cant configure it. Its like APM is

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Mtek gps reset bug

I use the MTEK gps on my copter. At first it worked fine, but now i need to press the reset button on APM for it to get a lock. I've read that others have had these problems, but no solution.

 

Im using the NG code. Is there a solution to this??

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mag. problem

I just mountet mag. and gps to my arducopter. But when i try to fly the yaw is unstable :( verry unstable

 

* Enabled in code #define IsMAG

* enabled in cli

* cal. in cli

 

It's connected like the pic. Any ideas what might be wrong??

 

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possible bug in NG code

My arducopter has fallen out of the sky a couple of times today. I tought it was bad connections, so i replaced them.

 

But when i started testing again i found that if i move the trottle stick fast it disarms. The arm-led stops blinking and the engine

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Arducopter log data

Hi

I'm waiting for my arducopter, in the mean time i would like to see the data it collects. Is there data from the flash posted somewhere? I mean logged flight data

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tx calibration

I am trying to calibrate my transmitter, I just bought a new one the turnigy 9x. I do the regular calibration using konfigurator everything looks great. It says it fails cause I don’t use the aux channel. All the markers stay in the center when the s

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