"Glad to hear you are up and running - I'm awaiting my power regulator from Mouser.com which will hopefully address my issue.
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Green "A" LED won't light, can't arm motors
Started this discussion. Last reply by paul hubner Jul 12, 2011. 26 Replies 0 Likes
Hello all. I'm having a tough time arming my motors. I was following the Configuration section of the Arducopter 2 wiki and made it all the way to ESC Calibration*. I tried automatic calibration,…Continue
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Doug Lacher replied to Doug Lacher's discussion Green "A" LED won't light, can't arm motors"I received my APM 2560 in the mail today, and promptly assembled it. Looks like my problem was localized to my old APM, so it must have been a hardware issue. Either I screwed something up with the assembly or it was dead on arrival. My AC boots…"
T Shaw replied to Doug Lacher's discussion Green "A" LED won't light, can't arm motors"Doug,
Sorry about the late reply, had to work late last night and didn't get a chance to work on the copter.
I'm using 2.0.33beta for the firmware and for the APM Mission planner its 1.0.26 build 1.04.4203.31490.
What…"
DistributorMartint BuildYourOwnDrone.co.uk replied to Doug Lacher's discussion Green "A" LED won't light, can't arm motors
"Hello Tim,
Great to see you are back on track, if you have any other issues please do let me know!
Regards
Martin
www.buildyourowndrone.co.uk"
Doug Lacher replied to Doug Lacher's discussion Green "A" LED won't light, can't arm motors"Glad to hear that worked for you, Tim! I'm curious what version numbers you have for Mission Planner and AC2. I just updated this morning with MP 1.0.24 (build 1.0.4201.29409) and AC 2.0.33 Beta. However, MAVlink still times…"
Doug Lacher replied to Doug Lacher's discussion Green "A" LED won't light, can't arm motors"Thanks Paul! I ran various component tests, all with passing results. Or at least I got sane data out of them.
ArduPilot Mega BMP085 library test
Pressure:0 Temperature:0.00 Altitude:44330.00
Pressure:101000 Temperature:26.50…"
T Shaw replied to Doug Lacher's discussion Green "A" LED won't light, can't arm motors"Guys,
I just tried the latest AC2 code via the latest APM mission planner and now the mavlink connects OK. Until I tried this combination of software firmware, I was getting the standard timout commands in the console.
Now, the artificial…"
DistributorMartint BuildYourOwnDrone.co.uk replied to Doug Lacher's discussion Green "A" LED won't light, can't arm motors
"I would like to add a little info to this posting:
I have just got finished testing an oilpan / APM which was returned with a fault which I believe is the same as a few people have reported here, I have tested the AP in the mission planner…"
paul hubner replied to Doug Lacher's discussion Green "A" LED won't light, can't arm motors"Doug,
Great minds think alike eh? I was PMing you when you posted here. You should load the Arduino IDE if you haven't already Its pretty straighforward.
Next download AC2 latest version to disk manually so you know where it is, then run…"
Doug Lacher replied to Doug Lacher's discussion Green "A" LED won't light, can't arm motors"Sorry if this is a stupid question (and feel free to throw a link at me if I need to rtfm), but how do I run the component level tests? I downloaded AC 2.0.33 and grepped it for"
DistributorMartint BuildYourOwnDrone.co.uk replied to Doug Lacher's discussion Green "A" LED won't light, can't arm motors
"@ Tim,
Thank you for your email and link to this information! Sorry to hear that you and a few others are experiencing issues with the boards, I have replied to the email you sent to me, and look forward to hearing from you.
If you would like me…"
paul hubner replied to Doug Lacher's discussion Green "A" LED won't light, can't arm motors"Chris - Yes I have tried this and never got past the repeating timeout CRC errors. I've gone and run the componenet level tests from within the Arduino IDE and have the following results:
AP_ADC_test - successful…"
3D RoboticsChris Anderson replied to Doug Lacher's discussion Green "A" LED won't light, can't arm motors
"In general MAVLink connect issues mean that your IMU isn't booting up, which is usually due to a hardware issue. If you got to the Mission Planner Help tab and click the box to enable the console, and then close and restart, you can see the…"
paul hubner replied to Doug Lacher's discussion Green "A" LED won't light, can't arm motors"
Doug (and Tim),
I am also experiencing precisely the same issue, and have tried the same corrective steps with no luck. I have even tried down grading to earlier 2.x firmwares with same results. I believe I am not booting successfully…"
T Shaw replied to Doug Lacher's discussion Green "A" LED won't light, can't arm motors"Doug,
Just wondering if you've managed to get anywhere yet?
I'm reluctant to get a new Ardupilot & IMU as they cost the equivalent of $375 dollars here in the UK!
Best Regards,
Tim"
Doug Lacher replied to Doug Lacher's discussion Green "A" LED won't light, can't arm motors"Tim, I'm sorry to hear your'e running into the same problems as me, but at the same time it's slightly comforting to know I'm not the only one struggling with this. =)
I'm really psyched about my quadrocopter, so…"
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