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  not2fast November 19, 2013 at 4:02pm

  Thanks iskess and Marcin

  I was over thinking it. I thought for sure I would have to set something. Ha! Four more wires gone. Thanks again.
• Marcin Krawczyk November 18, 2013 at 12:28am

  You don't have to switch, with default config I'm connecting radio to UART0 and it works fine.
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  iskess November 18, 2013 at 12:25am

  Yes, you can use the side UART0 pins for telemetry or OSD. I do that and it works great.
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  not2fast November 17, 2013 at 9:19pm

  Hi, 

  Got a question on the APM 2.5. I would like to use the UART0 pins on the side of the board to connect the 3DR radio. I'm making a PCB to plug the entire board, Rx, OSD and Vtx into to eliminate most of the rats nest in the plane and I would like to not use the stock wire and plug for the radio. Can the radio be switched to the pins on the side?  Thanks
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  Anish September 19, 2013 at 11:44pm

  Wait till that happens to cars too ;)
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  iskess September 19, 2013 at 5:33pm

  I got the new Taranis radio and I absolutely love it. The stock battery really stinks however and of course the radio died on me when I was 3 miles away from home. The APM turned around and flew home perfectly. While she loitered over our heads I created an approach and she flew it down to a perfect autolanding. It helped that I had plenty of battery and knowlege of the landing site to firgure it out.

  This experience made me think about having a small game controller as a backup to the RC Tx. I have  afew questions about how this works.

  If the Joystick is enabled for pitch and roll, what happens to the pitch and roll stick on the RC Tx?  Are the controls mixed, or does it lock out the RC? If it locks out the RC Tx (a bit scary), how can I get it back besides going to the joystick page and pressing disengage?

  If I loose telemetry, will it instantly revert back to RC control?

  How have people managed the throttle control on game pads that have no slider?  Is there a game pad with a slider? Is there a way to press buttons repeatedly to increase/decrease throttle? Having the throttle spring-loaded back to 50% also seems a bit scary.
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  Simon Wunderlin September 9, 2013 at 10:10am

  Hi Michael

  sorry, this place here is not well suited for discussion, please move it over to the forum (i cannot even respond to your message). And if you have one, please attach a telemetry log so other can have a closer look.

  Best

  -S
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  Simon Wunderlin September 9, 2013 at 7:29am

  Hi Michael

  i guess you are using AMP 2.6 with an external compass/gps module? 

  First tim i used it i ha a bit of a WTF moment.

  Please read carefully through the official arduplane wiki about the compass, the orientation configuration is not very intuitive:

  http://plane.ardupilot.com/wiki/common-installing-3dr-ublox-gps-com...

  A better place to ask such questions would be in the forum.

  Best

  -S
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  Simon Howroyd August 14, 2013 at 2:22am

  Hi all,

  Had a pretty annoying crash on Friday with my X8. Happened when I switched from RTL to FBW-A. Randomly flicked into manual for some reason (shouldn't have done) and the aircraft banked sharply.

  My initial suspicion was that my rx browned out, but it is on the same 5v rail as APM, and the datalog for the 5v line looks reasonable.

  If anyone is free, and bored, and fancies having a look at my data for a diagnosis I would be forever grateful!

  http://upload.droneshare.com/view/bvjl2vy

  Cheers,

  Si
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  Tommy Larsen August 9, 2013 at 6:44am

  Please make a thread for issues instead of discussing at group level... :-)