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Permalink Reply by Ben M on March 19, 2012 at 8:05pm

That is the bind port you must provide power through any of the other pins. It will get power when you attach the cable to the throttle for example. The first port is only for binding to your transmitter and telemetry.

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Permalink Reply by jonny bankz on March 20, 2012 at 7:14am

Here is the update. I have connected Pin 3 to the throttle on the receiver. I also have moved the power to AUX 1. Still now lights on the receiver. Am I doing something wrong?

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Permalink Reply by Ben M on March 20, 2012 at 11:26am

From your picture it looks like you have placed the power cable on the bottom two pins. It needs to be on the top two pins. The order is negative, then positive, then signal. From the top to the bottom.

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Permalink Reply by jonny bankz on March 20, 2012 at 5:16pm

OK. Thanks for the help, but I still do not have any lights on the receiver. I have attached another picture of how I have it attached.Thanks for the help.

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Permalink Reply by Vernon Barry on March 22, 2012 at 4:26pm

Hopefully this picture was early in the process because you cannot arm if you don't have the rest of those wires connected to the receiver on the right channels! It rudder isn't connected, no way will you ever arm.

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Permalink Reply by Ben M on March 20, 2012 at 5:50pm

well it seems everything is conected right. so the only thing i can think of is that your not connected. make sure that your transmitter is on before you power the board.

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Permalink Reply by jonny bankz on March 20, 2012 at 10:48pm

Thank you! Seems to have done the trick. It is now binded. However now I am trying to get the motors to spin up from the throttle. No luck. Next goal is to get it to read from the PC to start the simulator.

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Permalink Reply by Ben M on March 21, 2012 at 5:07am

Well when you attempted to spin your motors was the apm armed. Because when I attempted it for my first time I couldn't get them to spin either. But the while plugged into usb I realized they weren't arming and it was because I had to reverse the yaw on my dx7. So that might be your problem.

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Permalink Reply by jonny bankz on March 22, 2012 at 4:16pm

OK. I got the APM to connect to MP. I was able to load the 2.5 Firm to the APM and successfully get all of the readings. The transmitter and receiver are now binded. So far it looks like everything is working. Except I cannot get the ESC's to arm. In MP it sayd they are disarmed. I have gone through what looks like the right auto arming processing. No luck. It is either silent or constant beeps. No response. I was able to calibrate the controller in MP. What do you think the issue and solution may be to this? Looks like I am so close. Thanks for your help!

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Permalink Reply by Vernon Barry on March 22, 2012 at 4:21pm

Silent means the APM is sending correct PWM to the ESCs so that's good, but it's at low stick or off. In this state, MP should say disarmed because it's waiting for you to hold the left stick in the lower right corner for a few seconds (throttle full down, full right tail on a heli). I had to hold it longer than I expected but that's the whole point of having mission planner connected when troubleshooting, you can see what signals are happening.

To verify what you are sending the APM via the RC radio, go back to the settings menu in MP, look the same window you calibrated the radio at. You'll see throttle must be at the lowest position and ensure it's getting right rudder (not cyclic AKA right stick).

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Permalink Reply by Ben M on March 22, 2012 at 4:21pm

well issue that i had was that i had to reverse my yaw so it woried as specified. but first try to arm the escs by moving the right stick down and to the left and if that works you need to reverse the yaw. and hav eyou clibrated the escs?

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Permalink Reply by jonny bankz on March 22, 2012 at 4:29pm

Just so I have this straight. I should have the lipo & usb connected for this right? Also should the 4 wire cable that connects the APM and the power distribution board be connected? I want to verify that I am doing this correctly. I am getting slightly confused on calibrating and then arming. Also if this should be done with MP. TY

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