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DIrect motor drive fix pitch tail?

Hi,

I'm thinking about trying a motor tail with a fix pitch propeller, to simplify my helicopter. I've seen some people doing so on some 500 helis (scale build) and looks like it's working but I've never seen any feedback of performance.

My purpose is

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Autorotation thoughts

Hi,

I've been flying my heli for a while but I came across a problem, which doesn't happen quite often but it may be important for safety. It's the power failure and autorotation.

Recently I had a major failure of my battery during the flight, the batt

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450 heli project with PX4

It took me 3 months to finally make it, so I would like to share all my experience and hope that would be helpful. My words are not very efficient but I'll try to write down all the important things and issues/solutions I have.

A little background. Th

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Arming gives weird signal to my ESC

Hi,

I've just finally finished building my heli, everything seems well set, all servo's in right position, swash moves in right direction, pre-arm safe check passed. But when I arm my heli, my esc starts to beep, which means that the "throttle stick s

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Is it possible to use PX4 without IO board?

Hi,

My dog thought my PX4 was delicious and chewed my IO board (he immediately regreted and gave it back to me in two pieces though...).

It's hard to find the IO board at the moment (I'm in the Netherlands) and I'm thinking of using the FMU itself with

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PX4 Helicopter wiring?

Hi,

I'm setting up an APM heli using a PX4 + IO, but I couldn't find any info of wiring. My setup is a 120 swashplate with a separate direct drive variable pitch tail, which means I have a normal tail servo with an extra motor at the tail to control.

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