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Ardupilot Jitters

I have been using a standard Ardupilot on my easystar with a HiTec receiver and Tx at 72Mhz. Not at first but lately the system is loosing range capability. With Ardupilot installed w/or w/o shield and imu installed the servos will get the jitters st

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Ardupilot V2 shield

I have been enjoying flying my Easystar for months now and have recently installed the shield with air sensor equipment. I also have the telemetry working transmitting to an Ardustation. Airspeed on the Ardustation always indicates static speed begin

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Ardupilot Failsafe

Hello all,

I have had no luck whatever with getting throttle failsafe to work. I have set up the config file to: THROTTLE_FAILSAFE 1, THROTTLE_FS-VALUE 920 (my radio throttle drops out at around 935) and FAILSAFE_ACTION 1. It is difficult to ground te

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Ardustation lites and buttons

I have assembled my GCS Ardustation, added the Xbees to it and plane and they worked for a short time until building a nice fancy box for the GCS. Upon installing to the box the GCS no longer worked. The unit booted and the display works. The three c

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ardustation

Thanks for the advice on using my shield with airspeed sensor. I simply installed it and to test, squirted w/ canned air when running. The motor slowed as I presumed it should. I will flight test when it is not windy out.

Meanwhile I have been trying

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V2 Shield lights

I hope I am in the correct spot this time for this discussion! Here goes again. After my Easystar stalled out in flight with too strong a tailwind I decided to add a shield with airspeed sensor. After the assembly and adding it to the AP I discovered

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V2 Shield lights

After my Easystar stalled out in flight with too strong a tailwind I decided to add a shield with airspeed sensor. After the assembly and adding it to the AP I discovered there was a Lock light but no Power or State lights. I am concerned about givin

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Loading code to ardupilot

Can I upload without disconnecting the IMU wiring to a new course or even make adjustments to the ardupilot code for PID adjustments? For example, solder the connections for the IMU on the underside of the ardupilot and plug in the HDMI cable as norm

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Control switch blues

I have an off the shelf Easy star which comes with a Hi-tech Neon-ss FM 72mhz radio, a three plus possible mode switch ch4. May I use this for my control switch on Ardupilot V2?

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