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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Gary Mortimer on January 10, 2012 at 4:06am

10.8 sounds like a low starting figure, I think the battery is shot.

Have you flown at all?

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Permalink Reply by Miguel on January 10, 2012 at 4:43am

Thank you for answering Gary,

   Unfortunatelly I haven't flown it yet...

The batteries are new and the voltage that indicates the multimeter is 12'20 v:

Any idea?

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Permalink Reply by u4eake on January 10, 2012 at 6:58am

Bad soldering ?  Intermittend contact ?  If I remember correctly the battery reading uses a moving average filter, so short connection failures will not show as 0, but as abnormal low voltages.

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Permalink Reply by Miguel on January 10, 2012 at 7:37am

Thank you u4eake,

   As far I understand, do you recommend me to review the connections and contacts with the multimeter?

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Permalink Reply by Rick B on January 10, 2012 at 10:15am

I think you have to setup the board to read the voltage, like this:

http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/Voltage

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Permalink Reply by Miguel on January 10, 2012 at 3:51pm

Thank you Rick,

   I'm afraid you are right, I'm trying to contact jdrones to be sure but they don't answer...

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