Posted by DEVAU Rémi on September 24, 2009 at 3:02am
Hi all,I made a little mistake when, showing my girlfriend how fun it was having an autopilot in my hand, I connect the ESC to one of servo-in in the wrong way.Flaaassshhhh, the little 10µf capa between out2 and out3... RIP.I take a time to calm down, and then resolder the sm jumper to provide power from a battery.It works, I'm able to upload code, and all seems good (well, with nothing pluged but the gps).Anyway, I have a question:Is it normal to have .8v to 1.2V on the servo connectors? (without any servo in, and as i said with the smj in battery mode)I don't want to burn the ardupilot when i'll connect the servo output from my rc receiver...Please tell me: "No pb, it's fine, go ahead!!"Best regards,rémi(from france, sorry for english mistake)
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When you're powering the board from the battery directly (switched the solder jumper), it DOES NOT provide power to the servos. That's why you're getting such a low power reading. They must be powered by the Rx/ESC as usual.
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I understood that, but when i got some V on servos pin, i was wondering if i broke something during my polarity swap...
Thx!
(and congrat. for this really cool board!)