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I am new to arducopter and following the online guide to set up for the first time.

I have successfully loaded the USB driver for ardupilot 2.5 and connected the device to my laptop via USB.

The only other items I have connected to the ardupilot other than said USB cable are the 4 ESC's for my quad, on outputs 1 thru 4.  To be extra clear, the battery is NOT connected.  Only USB and ESC's are connected.

I am in mission planner and load arducopter Quad V3.0.1 just fine, verified firmware successfully.

I then head over to the terminal and click connect, perform basic BARO testing, but get error message "RPANIC"  I have pasted the terminal session below.  Is my board faulty or is additional setup required to perform even basic barometer chip testing?   thanks in advance!  NOTE: I have performed an "erase" function several times to "clear" the eeprom but below results are consistent.

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*NOTE* Please click connect above

CLI Works only on first connect of power, log download only over USB

Opened com port

Init ArduCopter V3.0.1

Free RAM: 2060

FW Ver: 120

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load_all took 4280us

3No dataflash inserted3ArduCopter V3.0.1]

ArduCopter V3.0.1]

ArduCopter V3.0.1]

ArduCopter V3.0.1] ?

Commands:

logs

setup

test

reboot

help

ArduCopter V3.0.1] test

test] help

Commands:

baro

battery

compass

eedump

gps

ins

logging

motors

optflow

pwm

radio

relay

sonar

tune

test] baro

Hit Enter to exit.

3Calibrating barometer_RPANIC: AP_Baro::read unsuccessful for more than 500ms in AP_Baro::calibrate [1]

session closed