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chris eldred replied to Chris Anderson's discussion 'Discussion forum for UAVDevBoard, Sparkfun's 3-axis IMU-based autopilot board'

Bill, Rusty thanks for all the help guys, I re-read the pdf's and worked out its the altitude hold and have now set it to off Just got to be patient and wait for a calm day regards Chris

Mar 7, 2010

chris eldred replied to Chris Anderson's discussion 'Discussion forum for UAVDevBoard, Sparkfun's 3-axis IMU-based autopilot board'

Rusty thanks for that, seems the UDB must have a slight difference in pulse output, recal'd the ESC and it seems to work odd it worked fine direct from the Rx. Bill thanks for the tip on the servo swap, I feel a bit stupid not trying that…

Mar 7, 2010

chris eldred replied to Chris Anderson's discussion 'Discussion forum for UAVDevBoard, Sparkfun's 3-axis IMU-based autopilot board'

Hi Ric the roll stab off was shown in a number of option.h files i have looked at, I thought that was the way to go, but I am open to any ideas. the thottle reverse is needed on my futabu to have min throttle with the left hand stick all the way…

Mar 7, 2010

chris eldred replied to Chris Anderson's discussion 'Discussion forum for UAVDevBoard, Sparkfun's 3-axis IMU-based autopilot board'

Hi Bill excellent suggestion, I was getting a bit despondent, tried the servo swap ESC does the samething in ch 2, and ch3 seems to work the elevator servo fine, so the output seems good. I tried both 0 and 1 for the throttle hardcode.The ESC…

Mar 7, 2010

chris eldred replied to Chris Anderson's discussion 'Discussion forum for UAVDevBoard, Sparkfun's 3-axis IMU-based autopilot board'

Can anyone suggest a fix for this, I was running matrixpilot 2.02 and had to modify the options.file to work with 3 channels, elevator, rudder, throttle. All worked fine, then I edited the options file as I had left ailerons still enabled and now…

Mar 7, 2010

chris eldred replied to Sriram Rangan's discussion 'Easystar brushless motor mount'

Hooks what is the spec of the triblade prop thanks chris

Feb 26, 2010

chris eldred replied to William Premerlani's discussion 'Warning: Do not press on the headers of the UAV DevBoard'

reloaded microchip software for the "nth" time, now it works chris

Feb 6, 2010

easystar fpv

Status posted by chris eldred Feb 6, 2010

chris eldred replied to William Premerlani's discussion 'Warning: Do not press on the headers of the UAV DevBoard'

Gil how did you get on with the pickit2, I have had varying results, the "pitch roll yaw demo" test program works ok but matrixpilot always comes up with "BUILD FAILED" regards chris

Feb 6, 2010