"Im a fan of the V antenna with low pass filter. Range video sells both of those. I get a pretty good reception at distance. Im planning on getting a patch antenna on the ground side too."
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HELP WITH MISSION PLANNER!!!PLEASE
Started this discussion. Last reply by srinath mallikarjunan Jan 18. 5 Replies 0 Likes
I have just put my Ardupilot Mega (ATMega2560) and now I am attempting to upload the firmware. I have tried to use mission planner 1.1.22 and when i select arducopter for quad it comes up with an…Continue
Batteries, whats the limit?
Started this discussion. Last reply by james sowell Dec 25, 2011. 4 Replies 0 Likes
Hi all I purchased a Arducopter and im lookign to get the best flight times I can. I have seen somewhere a guy using two 5000mah 3s lipos is it worth going that far? Would two 8000mah 3s lipos be far…Continue
Wireless Video problems
Started this discussion. Last reply by Zach Bayne Feb 21. 2 Replies 0 Likes
It has been for ever since I last came on this site but finally I have purchased myself a quadcopter and wireless FPV system. My video set up is a 900mhz Range Video RX and TX with a KX191 colour…Continue
Tags: Problems, transmission, Reception, Image, Video
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Philthyy replied to Felix's discussion Wireless Video problems"What antennas are you using? What are you viewing the video with? Are you powering the Vtx with it's own battery or are there other circuits drawing from the same circuit?"
Felix replied to Felix's discussion HELP ME! D: in the group ArduCopter User Group"I have wired everything up just as you have to my receiver and then plugged in the 4 wire harness from the PDB and the 2 wire power harness coming from the PDB just as instructed in the manual but when the lipo in connected my receiver does…"
ModeratorEllison Chan replied to Felix's discussion HELP ME! D: in the group ArduCopter User Group
"Felix, doesn't sound like you have the 3D Robotic frame or power distribution harness, in which case all those links mentioned above would be useless for you.
The fact is that the bottom two pins in the header is power and the top pin is the…"
ModeratorMonroe replied to Felix's discussion HELP WITH MISSION PLANNER!!!PLEASE
"What version of APM did you try to compile?"
Felix replied to Felix's discussion HELP ME! D: in the group ArduCopter User Group"Its going on a quad. Thanks for the help ill keep trying!
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Gustav Kuhn replied to Felix's discussion HELP ME! D: in the group ArduCopter User Group"What airframe? Quad, heli,"
sam manekshaw replied to Felix's discussion HELP WITH MISSION PLANNER!!!PLEASE"I had the same problem, after a couple of tries i got mission planner to work.
I got very frustrated with mission planner and tried compiling the code in Arduino IDE 1.0 in Linux and got the same error as you.
What are we doing wrong?
Sam
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ModeratorGareth Rens replied to Felix's discussion HELP ME! D: in the group ArduCopter User Group
"APM1 (Red & Blue): http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/AC2_Radio
APM2 (Purple): http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/APM2RC
G:)"
Nick Mann replied to Felix's discussion HELP ME! D: in the group ArduCopter User Group"It's all in the wiki for connecting your APM to receiver - http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/AC2_Radio
Your ESC cables connect on the PDB (there's a very relevant blog on the main page now, regarding that). When you have a…"
Felix replied to Felix's discussion HELP WITH MISSION PLANNER!!!PLEASE"I am running Windows 7 on a Mac. It seems to be fixed now I re-downloaded it and that seemed to fix it!
Thank you all for giving help!"
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HELP ME! D:
I am trying to connect all my cables to the APM and my receiver but I don't know where my ESC cables should go or where the receiver power cable comes from?? It only mentions it later on in the instructions. Any help please!!!!!See More
ModeratorMonroe replied to Felix's discussion HELP WITH MISSION PLANNER!!!PLEASE
"If you are running windows go to control panel look at Device Manager and under Comm Ports look and see what comm port is available and in mission planner select that port. I'm assuming your running windows 7 if your running XP you need the…"
Niki Regina replied to Felix's discussion HELP WITH MISSION PLANNER!!!PLEASE"Try to copy all the libraries in the apm code folder into the arduino022 folder.
After Try to compile again."
Felix posted a discussionHELP WITH MISSION PLANNER!!!PLEASE
I have just put my Ardupilot Mega (ATMega2560) and now I am attempting to upload the firmware. I have tried to use mission planner 1.1.22 and when i select arducopter for quad it comes up with an error saying " Failed to download new firmware:System.IO.IOException:The port "COM18" does not exist."I have also tried arduino and it has given me errors when trying to compile saying "AP_int16" does not name a typeCould someone PLEASE help!? I just want to fly my quad and everything just seems to not…See More
ModeratorEllison Chan replied to Felix's discussion prop adapters! in the group ArduCopter User Group
"Any imbalance in the adapters is not good. If it's bad enough, it'll cause your motor bearings to wear out pre-maturely, not to mention that there's no good way to balance your props, if the adapters are not balanced."
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