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ronald mallett posted a blog post
Story here:Umpire hit by model aircraftWhat do we think, failed FPV, out of range or out of battery?Looks like a cheap plane, and it didn't do any physical harm
May 21, 2014
ronald mallett commented on Andreas's blog post Drone shot down by police
"look at its little heart slowly beating..........
its a good idea though, our word against theirs and who did what"
Jun 14, 2013
ronald mallett commented on Joshua Ott's blog post "Drones: The future of disaster response"
"The more they try to ban them the more more uses they are finding for them!"
May 24, 2013
ronald mallett commented on Jan's blog post FPV learning set
"Here is a photo of mine, played round with it and got it down to 16g
10mw tx,1gr 90deg camera, shortened antenna and a 230mah 1s lipo"
May 12, 2013
ronald mallett commented on Jan's blog post FPV learning set
"I have something similar as a quick addon
The tx has all the wires soldered direct, no regulator as its the 3.3v one. The 1gr camera is hot glued to the top of the TX and the battery is one of the 300mah ones from the Hubsan quad and like you a…"
May 10, 2013
ronald mallett posted a blog post
A report on a project to inspect a contaminated nuclear power station, from the Guardian. Excerpt:The university has built a "hexacopter", which has six separate rotary engines. It is also equipped with lidar (light detection and ranging),…
Aug 6, 2012
ronald mallett commented on Rigel's blog post Another GoPro competitor
"Ive a Geonaute 720p which is the same as the AEE, the only thing I find when using a Vid TX is the amount of icons on the screen, they are out of the way of the picture which is excellant"
Jul 15, 2012
ronald mallett commented on CrashingDutchman's blog post Hobbyking i86 and i86L (Lite Edition) Multi-Rotor Control Board
"This is the same as the Eagle N6 V2, the earlier one is a clone of the Eagle N6

I have this one but not fitted it yet"
Jun 27, 2012
ronald mallett commented on Chris Anderson's blog post ArduPilot home page
"Ive had similar problems and put my finding on the LED page

http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/correct-ardupilot-led-behavior

The problem I have is that although its a SIRF3 gps, it isnt an EM-406, which might explain why the leds arnt doing the…"
Apr 23, 2009
ronald mallett commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Correct ArduPilot LED behavior
"Current taken by ArduPilot and GPS shown

The voltage reg gets very hot and it seems to trip out, notice the power led going out?

The battery is a 900mah 7.4v Lipo

IMGP0004.AVI

IMGP0005.AVI

It seems there is a problem

1. I cannot get my leds to…"
Apr 19, 2009
ronald mallett commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Correct ArduPilot LED behavior
"Here we go
ArduPilot 2.0
program loaded nothing else

IMGP0001.AVI

GPS now connected

IMGP0002.AVI

Now switched channel connected and toggled 2 times

IMGP0003.AVI



Ronnie"
Apr 19, 2009
ronald mallett commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Correct ArduPilot LED behavior
"Here we go
ArduPilot 1.0
program loaded nothing else

IMGP0001.AVI

GPS now connected

IMGP0002.AVI

Now switched channel connected and toggled 2 times

IMGP0003.AVI


Ronnie"
Apr 19, 2009
ronald mallett commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Correct ArduPilot LED behavior
"A bit like this

IMGP0001.AVI

Hope that works"
Apr 9, 2009
ronald mallett commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Correct ArduPilot LED behavior
"Hello, just put my pins in and powered up (no GPS or servos, 1st time power up), I get the following

Power = red led = on
Mux = not on
Mode = not on
GPS = blue led = on and sequenced (ie follows same pattern as Status)
Status = yellow led = on…"
Apr 9, 2009
ronald mallett commented on Bill Raymond's blog post I'm still confuzed on the power for the board
"Hello, whats the maximum voltage that the board will accept, can I use a small Lipo (7.4v 300mah) instead of a 4.8v nimh pack or connecting to the ESC (its a Spektrum reciever and I dont want the ESC to overload)

Thanks

Ronnie"
Apr 6, 2009