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Xbee causes Restart

I have the telemetry kit. But when i plug it in it causes the ACM to constantly restart, which was the cause of my crash the other night, the xbee works fine. 

 

I Power the board directly and not from the servo rail. 

I suppose it might be drawing too

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V1.0.62

Had a bit of a weird one, updated from 1.0.58 to 1.0.62

Updated the software in my heli to 1.0.39b. Connected and the new mission planner is really slow. the map never updates and the HUD appears after a few secs but the rest of the screen never shows

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Oil Pan

After a crash i managed to read off the logs on my APM  and check it via usb, but unfortunately when i took my heli apart i accidently hit the on switch and  burnt off the capacitior on my oil pan. 

Its the 47uF Tanatlum just above the "analog 3.3v" t

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Helicopter PID

Don't know if any of the Traditional Heli guys would be interested but i was thinking of making a list of PID numbers that work for each model of helicopter, Trex, Raptor, Shuttle and xcell in my case.

Might be worth posting your numbers here. it woul

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