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  Anthony White February 22, 2013 at 6:26am

  I second Doug's sentiment!
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  Doug Chevrier February 22, 2013 at 6:24am

  It's great that some talented folks are smoothing the way for Rover operation.  There are still a few (not so talented) of us who need a second throttle channel for running boats with twin screws and consider that to be a major issue.  Please help!
• ben February 22, 2013 at 5:44am

  a friend of.mine got.me thinking. since my apm unit is.being powered from power module all inputs hav power. so my receiver therefor always has som power on the input servo cables. my receiver "batt" male plug has nothing. so wen i turn off my receiver .the inputs stil hav som power goin thru. i stil hav to test this wen i get home. but installing a ubec just for the receiver shd fix my ch3 throttle issue of the failsafe hopefully.since wen i pulled input 3 my motors stopd after i had alredy turned off transmitter.
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  Thomas J Coyle III February 22, 2013 at 5:42am

  Hi All,

  Tridge and I have been updating the ArduRover2 code so I am attaching the latest version of the ArduRover2 V2.30 alpha code.

  We have continued to clean up the ArduRover2 parameters to better reflect the requirements of a ground vehicle. Tridge has added SPEED_TURN_GAIN and SPEED_TURN_DIST parameters to aid in making the fastest turns possible. The SPEED_TURN_GAIN parameter is a percentage of the cruise speed value and SPEED_TURN_DIST parameter is the distance at which the reduced turn speed will be initiated when approaching a turn.

  I believe that Tridge has also added a "level" command to the "setup" in the CLI to perform a one time leveling of your rover on a flat surface.

  We are continuing to work towards a beta and final release version of the ArduRover2 code. About the last major issue left is the IR sonar function. We have decided to use the Air Speed sensor input on the Oilpan to read the IR sensor voltage. The MP will allow you to specify the conversion function for any given IR sensor since we are planning to use both medium and long range Sharp IR sensors.

  TCIII

  Update

  2/22/2013

  ArduRover_v230_firmware_20120222.zip

  https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3692629579?profile=original
• ben February 21, 2013 at 6:01pm

  hmm. my apm 2.5 is power from power module. n that power the receiver and inputs n outputs.just msyb i need to seperate the receiver from apm.try tomoro somtime tnx in advance hopefully
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  Thomas J Coyle III February 21, 2013 at 5:54pm

  @ben,

  The receiver and the APM are powered by a separate BEC. The BEC powers the APM and a two wire jumper from the APM input power rails powers the receiver. I have split the input and output power rails on my APM1.4. I do not use the BEC in the Sabertooth to power anything on the APM.
• ben February 21, 2013 at 5:49pm

  @thomas
  do u power receiver thru battery only ? or use the servo jumpers plug from receiver to inputs ? so each chanel has power ?
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  Thomas J Coyle III February 21, 2013 at 5:43pm

  @ben,

  I am using a Spektrum BR6000 receiver that was designed for robotics and the fail safe values are programmed into the receiver from the transmitter. I have them set to neutral (1500) for the throttle (elevator) and steering (aileron) and the mode to manual (>1900).

  Regards,

  TCIII
• ben February 21, 2013 at 4:17pm

  i just tested again and pulled input 3 . and the motors turnd on....so its something woth failsafe.cd u tel me ur settings ? iv had everything on and everthing off. and same shit happens. iv tried disabling failsafe but it just turns output ch 3 on after 2 seconds or
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  Thomas J Coyle III February 21, 2013 at 3:04pm

  Hi All,

  The Ardupilot Development Team has been updating the ArduRover code so I am attaching the latest version of the ArduRover V2.30 alpha code.

  Regards,

  TCIII

  Update

  2/20/2013

  ArduRover_v230_firmware_20120221.zip