Vibration Dampening Efforts

Post date: 17-Jul-2013 07:55:29

So we all know this , " YOU HAVE TO ELIMINATE VIBRATION " in the new ArduCopter-3.0.1 software/firmware release . EDIT : To see results CLICK HERE

Below a few Pictures of my efforts so far ...

Arducopter Vibration efforts

The APM is mounted on Soft double sided Rubber tape on to the Range Video Vibration Dampener The Mount in turn is mounted again on 4 ear-buds cut shorter , to be exact these where one's I got from a Virgin Atlantic flight some time ago ...soft stuff.

Range Video Vibration Mount

Tried to make all cables going to APM to be flexible , not stiff ...

EDIT : 06/08/2013 .. Here's a link to a Interesting site with lots of good tips on APM ... see all those wires from Receiver to APM ... I now have only three wire's going there with help from above site ... Yeah I know CCPM will have me using one ...question though ..do you trust it ?

Here is a page where they discuss different ways of mountings to reduce Vibration .... So out of the Three they suggest I got two ..

Another Page Discussing Vibration Control ...

Eliminating Vibration

ACC Vibration Control - A site selling some interesting products ...

Now to Test ....

EDIT : To see results CLICK HERE

APM Eliminating Vibration