Old Man
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I'm a bit too far north of you to give mine a try. I'm neither engineer nor nerd so I have to take things slow and work at it a small portion at a time until I gain a solid grasp of what I'm doing. APM 2.6 was my first foray with the open source stuff and candidly I didn't have to do anything to tweak it out, the defaults worked just fine. Only some small alterations later. Pixhawk has worked out the same way, only changing some failsafe settings, and there are quite a few to address, to get everything where it works just great.
OTH, had good results with older Wookong software but the taste soured fast and forever with A-2. I'm certain the Pixhawk has the ability to mess up somewhere but so far 3dR has been on it, actually all over it once I made direct contact, with resolution for some accessory product issues. I can't say the other outfit has even tried to address the issues I had with a product that cost 3 times as much. I still feel I got bent over with that one.
Moving on, we have four Pixhawks and one APM and looking at another 6 Pixhawks for some upcoming projects. The default settings for our IR bird have been so close to perfect there has been little desire to change anything. Have I mentioned "auto tune" yet? It really does work! Or the 10 or 12 flight modes that are sitting there ready to use with a simple drop down reassignment when you connect to your laptop? Grid search? MGRS as well as Lat/Long referencing? Too many reasons to go this route. There's some pretty good info videos on YouTube that cover a lot of it. Bypass the Iris stuff although some of it can be quite informative from the FC side of things. The Ardu/APM/Pixhawk Wiki is extensive. Preferring books to video screens I printed most of it out and filled a pair of 2.5" 3 ring binders. They are not complete...
OTH, had good results with older Wookong software but the taste soured fast and forever with A-2. I'm certain the Pixhawk has the ability to mess up somewhere but so far 3dR has been on it, actually all over it once I made direct contact, with resolution for some accessory product issues. I can't say the other outfit has even tried to address the issues I had with a product that cost 3 times as much. I still feel I got bent over with that one.
Moving on, we have four Pixhawks and one APM and looking at another 6 Pixhawks for some upcoming projects. The default settings for our IR bird have been so close to perfect there has been little desire to change anything. Have I mentioned "auto tune" yet? It really does work! Or the 10 or 12 flight modes that are sitting there ready to use with a simple drop down reassignment when you connect to your laptop? Grid search? MGRS as well as Lat/Long referencing? Too many reasons to go this route. There's some pretty good info videos on YouTube that cover a lot of it. Bypass the Iris stuff although some of it can be quite informative from the FC side of things. The Ardu/APM/Pixhawk Wiki is extensive. Preferring books to video screens I printed most of it out and filled a pair of 2.5" 3 ring binders. They are not complete...
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