Re: [Paparazzi-devel] Apogee board availability

[Andreas Philipp]

Yes, they send from HongKong. I used HongKong Speed Post which was
always OK, allows tracking and always took less than a week from
HongKong to Germany! The last one even took only three days. However it
takes some time (~2-3 weeks) until the board is produced ...

Cheers,
Andreas


Am 14.07.2015 01:16, schrieb Michal Podhradsky:
> Just FYI the Droneasy.com is located in Hong Kong, that will help you to
> estimate the shipping time.
> M
> 
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Stephen L Hulme <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Gautier
> 
>     A cut and past of a reply to an order I placed with Droneasy on or
>     around Sept 2013 -
> 
>     Stephen,
>     Thank you for your order. There are 9 DOF and 6 DOF IMU version.
>     Which version do you need?
>     6 or 9 DOF IMU
>     Apogee v1.00 PCB offer two Invensense IMU chip options:
>     MPU-6050 : 6 DOF, 3 axis Accelerometer + 3 axis Gyroscope
>     MPU-9150 : 9 DOF, 3 axis Accelerometer + 3 axis Gyroscope + 3 axis
>     Magnetometer
>     Regards
>     Ralph Wu
>     Droneasy Inc.
>     M: +852 91315364 <tel:%2B852%2091315364>     E: address@hidden
>     <mailto:address@hidden>     W: www.droneasy.com
>     <http://www.droneasy.com>
> 
>     I chose 9 DOF option and bench tested using ENAC's airframe with
>     external Mag.
>     Seemed OK - but it has yet to fly.
> 
>     Regards
> 
>     Stephen
> 
> 
>     On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 10:12 AM Gautier Hattenberger wrote:
>     Hello,
> 
>     As Andreas said, the Apogee board is not obsolete at all and we are
>     using it in all our airframes at Enac. Unfortunately, since PPZUAV
>     stopped his business for an undefined period, it is a bit difficult to
>     find suppliers.
>     I'm glad to see someone is manufacturing them again. We are also looking
>     for some other suppliers to make it more easily available.
>     Andreas, do you know from which country droneasy is ? Are they shipping
>     worldwide ?
> 
>     Regards
> 
>     Gautier
> 
>     Le 13/07/2015 19:29, Andreas Philipp a écrit :
> 
>         Hi,
> 
>         since the source from http://ppzuav.com/ (where I order one) is
>         dry now,
>         due to the absence of David, I ordered several boards from
>         
> http://www.droneasy.com/index.php/electronics/flight-controllers-2/paparazzi-apogee.html.
> 
>         I order the boards even if they are on backorder (I guess they
>         are just
>         produced when there is an order) but it takes only around 4
>         weeks from
>         the order placement until it has arrived to Europe (including some
>         visits at the customs). The quality seems good (in contrast to some
>         former discussions). I just had one out of 6 boards which did
>         not work
>         properly, but it was no problem to send it back and get a
>         replacement
>         (paid one shipping direction).
> 
>         In my opinion this board is by far not obsolete but extremely
>         useful (at
>         least for meteorological measurements) since it brings the
>         sd-card and
>         logging function onboard (easy to write, easy to read). You just
>         have to
>         decide between 9dof and 6dof imu. I unfortunately used to order the
>         former ones (9dof), but now cannot use the barometer since the I2C
>         adress changed (something Gautier fixed already but I got it to work
>         only for multicopters not for fixedwing airframes and it is not yet
>         included in the master branch). Thus, if you want to use the
>         barometer
>         easily order the 6dof imu (Gautier also said the magnetometer is not
>         very precise, if I remember correctly). But all in all I'm very
>         happy
>         with this board!
> 
>         Hope that helps,
>         Andreas
> 
>         On 13.07.2015 15:37, Jan Čapek wrote:
> 
>             Hi,
> 
>             I am interested in getting one/few of the Apogee boards for
>             testing. I
>             have researched all the relevant links from the wiki, none
>             of the listed
>             companies have this board in stock. Everything is on
>             backorder. Is the
>             board already considered obsolete? If so, why?
>             Is there possible somebody in the list devel list who
>             can sell one of his assembled boards, please let me know.
> 
>             Best regards,
> 
>             Jan Capek
> 
> 
> 
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