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APM Wiring, ESC + Receiver

Posted by Jani Hirvinen on July 15, 2010 at 9:14am

Illustrated cable connections between APM + Receiver, APM + ESC's and motor locations for ArduCopter.

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  • Developer
    Jani Hirvinen July 15, 2010 at 10:47am
    Sure, I just updated it to Wiki too...
  • 3D Robotics
    Chris Anderson July 15, 2010 at 10:39am
    Excellent diagram, Jani--super helpful. I'll integrate into the ArduCopter manual.
  • Developer
    Jani Hirvinen July 15, 2010 at 10:23am
    You need to have both Pusher & Puller props. This is due we are using centrifuge forces as our rudder. So if all motors are spinning on same direction, whole quad will spin on opposite direction. Having 50% CW + 50% CCW motors we can counter measure this spin and also we can it to rotate quad. By speeding up other group a bit and slowing down another, this way our total thrust is still 100% but we are turning. Controlling speeds on these groups we can easily spin it which ever way we want.
  • Wallace Edwards July 15, 2010 at 10:09am
    Jani, I have a newbe question. I notice one set motors (left/right) are set for ccw, could a pusher prop be used instead of running the motors ccw?
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