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5/16/2018 4:09 PM
 

Just installed an AHRS board on my Stratux and took my first flights with it this weekend.  Before leaving the house, I did the Stratux setup to identify which direction is fwd in the plane.  I did a gross performance test by holding the Stratux box in my hand, then rotating around pitch, roll, and yaw axes to see generally the motions I expected, so basic functionality is there.

Once in level flight, I opened the Stratux web interface and tried to reset the AHRS to level.  When I did, the initial indication in the simulated artificial horizon was level flight, but then it immediately drifted to about 20deg pitch down and a slight roll, where it then stabilized.

I repeated this many times during the flight.  When I tried to center the gyros, it always looked like it centered, then immediately drifted to a more-or-less stable ~20deg pitch down indication with slight roll.  It took about 5 sec for this drift-and-settle to occur.

I've never heard of this behavior before.  Anyone got any ideas?

I do happen to have another AHRS board, and I plan to swap them out to see if the behavior is any different, but I forgot to bring my Stratux home from the plane so it'll be a few days before I can get back out there to mess with it.

 
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5/17/2018 12:13 PM
 
I remember seeing this happen early on in the Stratux AHRS development. But I haven't seen it since. (IIRC, it happens when the AHRS isn't oriented properly. You can sometimes get strange calibrations what will look right at first when nothing is moving.)

What was the Stratux WebUI showing on its AHRS page? That's the raw data. Let's make sure that's working.
 
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5/17/2018 12:39 PM
 
Try leveling the Stratux from within the iFly GPS program. You can level the Stratux, then level iFly, both from within the iFly program.
 
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5/17/2018 4:52 PM
 
ErgonomicMike wrote:
I remember seeing this happen early on in the Stratux AHRS development. But I haven't seen it since. (IIRC, it happens when the AHRS isn't oriented properly. You can sometimes get strange calibrations what will look right at first when nothing is moving.)

What was the Stratux WebUI showing on its AHRS page? That's the raw data. Let's make sure that's working.

I was only looking at the Stratux WebUI.  I pulled up the iFly AI instrument once to confirm it looked the same way, and it did.

 
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5/17/2018 4:53 PM
 
JohnnyBlackCT wrote:
Try leveling the Stratux from within the iFly GPS program. You can level the Stratux, then level iFly, both from within the iFly program.

I thought I remembered hearing someone say that, but in the little bit of poking around I did I couldn't figure out where that option is.  How do I do that?

 
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