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ESC nonstop beeping

Posted by Michael TD on April 16, 2013 at 3:35pm

Greetings,

I have a fully assembled Hexacopter and it was flying just fine until now. Now when I connect the battery it goes through the normal beeping until after a brief break it just keeps on beeping and the motors turn a little bit. Did the ESC lose their configuration/calibration? Is one of them burn out? I have no idea how to check or how to reset the original settings. Any ideas, recommendations?

Thanks,

Michael

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  • Craig Croitori March 17, 2016 at 6:34am

    My Quanum nova was constantly beeping it would not stop beeping it would not arm it would not do anything except for beeping I have tried going through mission planner downloading a firmware nothing worked then I found the original firmware that comes from the factory so I did a custom firmware and mission planner and the beeping stop it could arm it and I can start flying again and took me five days but it was worth it you can find it on the Internet it is called (ArduCopter3.2.1-quad-apm2-custom.hex)

     

    ArduCopter3.2.1-quad-apm2-custom.hex

    nova_original_settings.txt

    https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3702207470?profile=original
  • Goga January 20, 2016 at 7:49am

    Hi

    Share your configuration.

  • DG October 28, 2014 at 5:25pm

    After my experience, doing an ohm test on the motors will be job #1 before assembly. A motor short will take out an ESC.

  • Bo Barry October 21, 2014 at 7:35pm

    I have the same problem on all 4 of mine (brand new Quanum Nova).  Never flown,  checked ok yesterday. 

    Totally stuck. 

    • Steve Burton > Bo Barry December 15, 2014 at 7:43am

      Did you get this worked out?? Thanks, Steve

      • andi azhar > Steve Burton January 12, 2016 at 11:26am

        how is it? u get this worked? or end up buy buying new esc?

  • Luke Olson April 19, 2013 at 2:57am

    If the ESC beeps every few seconds that usually means it doesn't detect a PWM signal. It's possible the signal wire has a break somewhere or worse the APM or ESC have damaged circuity. Like Joe said, try to isolate the ESC that is beeping and then go from there.

    • Bo Barry > Luke Olson October 22, 2014 at 11:55am

      Mine beep if I  have the signal inputs disconnected or connected to the receiver. All beep,  worked two days ago.  Puzzling. 

  • Joe Frazier April 16, 2013 at 6:11pm

    I had one of my ESC's up and die and it indeed started beeping continuously, the others functioned normally. In that condition it was hard to tell if it was just one beeping or more. I unplugged them one piece by piece to finally determine the culprit.

    HTH.

    • Steve Burton > Joe Frazier December 15, 2014 at 7:42am

      Did you get this fixed? I have one engine beeping, worked for a day or two then when I went to test fly it started beeping. 

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