Hi, I'm a bit confused by the options to run servos at 7.4V on a Pixhawk.
This warning appears on the page http://ardupilot.org/plane/docs/common-powering-the-pixhawk.html#powering-backup-off-the-servo-rail
and confirms you can do it, but doesn't offer
Read more…I'd like to achieve the Solo Cable Cam effect with my 3DR Y6 running APM2.6.
I'd like to fly backwards beside a road and yaw the copter to film a car as it approaches and passes me. It's all quite low speed, the movement is just for effect rather tha
Read more…I did a small test mission last weekend and found the GPS navigation accuracy was quite poor. I've attached a screenshot showing the actual path taken compared to the WP path it should have followed from WPs 2 to 9. The speed was set to 5 or 6 m/s.
I
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I've got a Cyclops EPO that I'm setting up with a view to attempting a 200km flight (lovely plane, I'm sure it's capable of it), but I've crashed it twice out of three outings, and I've got no idea what's going wrong.
The maiden flight in manual mode
Read more…Hi, I've just maidened my 3DR Y6 into the ground, and I'm not sure why. (This is my first multirotor, I've flown a trad heli and fixed wing up until now.)
I got it light on the skids for a moment then carefully added a tiny bit more throttle when it s
Read more…Hi, I've just had a flight where my airspeed was way out, it was as much as 15m/s or 50km/hr less than the groundspeed on a very calm day.
Can anyone help me work out if it is a leak, a sensor error, or something else?
On my second flight of the day I
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If I set THR_FAILSAFE to 1 and switch off my transmitter, then the APM goes to CIRCLE mode after 1.5 s and to RTL mode after 20s. It does that if short and long FS are enabled. But it also does that if they are both disabled.
Perhaps more worr
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I've been testing the effect of different cruise airspeed settings on power consumption, but in the range that I've been testing (8m/s, 9m/s and 10m/s) it has almost no effect on actual airspeed (or power consumption).
I've been flying a lap a
Read more…I'm building a Bormatec Maja. Like many UAVs it's a pusher with the motor at the back and I want to put the battery right at the front for balance. I Googled for some ready made battery extension leads and didn't find any. But I did find this discuss
Read more…Can anyone help me find the cause of the only two crashes I've had with my FPV Raptor and APM 2.5.
I've done a dozen or so auto take offs successfully, but two of them resulted in crashes. Actually in both cases I recognized things weren't going well
Read more…I had a pretty exciting flight on the weekend. My plane with APM2.5 flew most of a circuit in Auto mode correctly, but towards the end it just flew off to sea!
I wanted to monitor the strength of the telemetry link by flying ever increasing loops. Eac
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