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8 or 9 Ch radio recommendations?

Hey guys,  I am in need of your input.  Can anyone recommend a good quad / octo rotor 8ch or 9ch radio receiver combo?  I need to get one right away and figured I would reach out to the community for "what works".

 

Riley

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Sonar reads off?

Reading the Sonar works for your altitude for <10 feet right?  After that the baro takes over.  

In the APM I see that when I lift the quad over my head I still read like 1m or 0m.  Any thoughts on that?

 

 

In CLI mode it reads like 20cm to 80cm... Howe

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XL-MaxSonar 20cm closest distance?

Hey guys I am using the arducopter 2.0.48 release.  I have enabled the sonar in the APM planner hardware config.  I have booted into CLI mode and went to test >> sonar.  If the quad is on the ground I get 20cm.   When its more like 5cm.  I can lift i

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Mission Mode Troubleshooting needed.

Hello all.  I have my quad flying stable right now.  I am working on getting missions to work through the apm. 

 

I click on the flight planner and set a "Take off" event to 10 (meters right?).

I then have it land.  I write the way points to the quad.  

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New build...

Just wanted you guys to know that I finally got it to hover a bit today.  Putting some finishing touches on "little boy" and its should be ready to go.

 

Thanks everyone who helped me out!

 

Here is it's first real flight.

 

Riley

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Manual Mode? How to? Startup sequence?

Perhaps I am missing something big here.  I have I think pretty much everything working on my quadcopter.  I can read all inputs on it from the R/C.  My mode switch works... Currently it switches from ACRO, STABILIZE and SIMPLE.  My process is the fo

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Throttle Input not reading from RC

I recently got my arducopter assembled and all hooked up.  When I go to calibrate my RC through the APM I get readings on everything BUT the throttle.  Not sure why?  I hook up a servo to that input on the receiver and it works just fine?  Any ideas?

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Telemetry Kit and gibberish.

I got the DIY Drones APM Oilpan and telemetry kit yesturday.  I can get the APM talking to the ground station NP.  I hook up the xbee to the oilpan (correctly) and then connect my other xbee to the usb-xbee board I got from the kit.  When I hookup th

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