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Last week I took my P2V to our astronomy club's annual star party, a week out in the country camping and using telescopes. I had hoped to shoot lots of cool video flying over the field full of scopes (not over people, very carefully). I got one flight in, and when I tried again I found I had a very pronounced left yaw and some control issues, accompanied by a notice on my phone that I had an IMU error, and needed to do a cal to fix it. Of course, I was 125 miles away from my computer, so the P2V spent the rest of the week in the car.
I just plugged it in to do the cal, and of course had to do the upgrade of the firmware to get to the cal. But when I got to the IMU cal page, it said everything was fine, and no cal was needed. Sitting on my desk, it shows green and three reds (and I have 4 sats, so that sounds right) and I am not getting an error message on my phone. Unfortunately, it's pretty warm right now, and it says it is too hot to do an IMU cal.
But, my newbie question is, was the hard left yaw likely the result of the IMU problem, and was that problem likely fixed by the upgrade, and therefore I don't need to do the IMU cal? I figure I will do the cal once it cools off, but I am wondering if I should be worried or if this is a standard problem, which the upgrade may have fixed?
Sorry if this has been asked and answered, I didn't see any threads on this exact topic. And, thanks for the help. I really like my quadcopter, but am a tad worried by the error.
hal
I just plugged it in to do the cal, and of course had to do the upgrade of the firmware to get to the cal. But when I got to the IMU cal page, it said everything was fine, and no cal was needed. Sitting on my desk, it shows green and three reds (and I have 4 sats, so that sounds right) and I am not getting an error message on my phone. Unfortunately, it's pretty warm right now, and it says it is too hot to do an IMU cal.
But, my newbie question is, was the hard left yaw likely the result of the IMU problem, and was that problem likely fixed by the upgrade, and therefore I don't need to do the IMU cal? I figure I will do the cal once it cools off, but I am wondering if I should be worried or if this is a standard problem, which the upgrade may have fixed?
Sorry if this has been asked and answered, I didn't see any threads on this exact topic. And, thanks for the help. I really like my quadcopter, but am a tad worried by the error.
hal