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DeveloperPermalink Reply by jasonshort on December 25, 2011 at 8:29pm

Try lowering your throttle trim and recalibrating everything.

Jason

Permalink Reply by Dara Shayda on December 25, 2011 at 8:32pm

Ok.

Just out of curiosity what caused this, all was working well. Suddenly it appeared beeping as such

Permalink Reply by Dara Shayda on December 25, 2011 at 9:34pm

It did not work.

I reduced the TRIM on the RC's (Dx8 from 5 to 3) and recalibrated. Is there another way to reduce the trim?

Same problem the motors beep, the motors arm and the beeps continue. 

I am hard pressed to believe that this many times one has to calibrate the ESCs!!!!!

Permalink Reply by Dara Shayda on December 25, 2011 at 11:51pm

I did this again several times and recalibrated again and same result: the motors beep and jolt a bit, the RC arms the motors, only one is working the other three just jolting with the beeps.

I was doing the same thing and it was working, except at higher trim value for Throttle. 

Oddly the APM board's LED's i.e. ABC are out for few seconds, when the motors beep, and when they come on and arm the beeps continue.

D

Permalink Reply by Martin Szymanski on December 25, 2011 at 9:21pm

Most esc's will beep if there is no PPM signal at power up.

I noticed this in the recent build also. Once armed and flown it goes away.

Make sure your ESC's are calibrated to the controller you are using.

I calibrate mine individually with the RC controller.

Permalink Reply by Dara Shayda on December 25, 2011 at 9:48pm

Hello Sor

If by PPM you meant APM, I agree. There is a difference now I assume after the loading the new code.

The ABC LEDs are not lit for quite a few seconds, and the beeps start. 

I can arm as specified and no problems.

One or more of the motors work the rest beep, sometimes they start to work all of a sudden and the beeps start.

I recalibrated with my RC and the problem did not  go away

D

Permalink Reply by Martin Szymanski on December 25, 2011 at 10:11pm

PPM to me = Pulse positional modulation over a given time constant.

PWM is a point on a sinewave that can be the same as PPM but different.

All of mine beep at arming startup. It flies well.