Jim Schultz
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So I finally got my hexacopter up in the air, but now it spins mid flight(yaw)... I'm thinking maybe a weight problem. It is running on a Pixhawk.
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Hexacopter spinning while in flight
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Jim Schultz
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New thought... Could it be the wind? It seems to only be affected as I get higher in the air and the drone is always pushed downwind. If this is the case, would the 3DR airspeed sensor solve this problem?
SleepyC
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Not wind. I don't have a lot of experience with the Pixhawk, but that is not the way a controller should fly. Are you sure you have the motors in the right configuration? To me it seems like your motors are off. Meaning that #1 on a A2 on a Y Hex is the front right arm. Where is your number 1 motor?
The Pixhawk is weird where the #1 motor is the "3 o'clock" position.
make sure that motor is plugged into motor port 1 and so on.
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Jim Schultz
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Yeah, that was my problem before but all of the motors are in the correct positions now... It sometimes flies fine but sometimes it spins...
dazzab
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Every time I've experienced this the issue has been that the motors were not level. You'd think the flight controller would compensate but not in my case. Another time that I had this issue I found that there were some rudder offsets in my parameters that I know I didn't put there. There was some speculation that when I loaded the wrong model in my Tx that it confused the ground station software, in this case Mission Planner, but that was never confirmed. If I were you I'd very carefully check the motor alignment and recalibrate the compass. If that didn't work I'd reset the parameters to the defaults and try again.
Jim Schultz
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Yeah, the motors mounts are pretty difficult to make completely even. Thank you for solving my problem.
SleepyC
www.AirHeadMedia.com
Use a metal yard stick and lay it across (sharp edge down) 2 motor mounts at a time. Should give you a nice flat platform.
Jim Schultz
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Great idea, didn't think about that.