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Failsafe set up with Futaba 7c

Posted by Jay Sherwood on April 28, 2010 at 7:32pm

I am having trouble setting up my Futaba 7c with failsafe.  I am trying to follow the instructions here:

 

http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot/wiki/RadioSetup

 

but it can only seem to change one of the settings.  For example, it says i'm supposed to change CH5 to 140%>63%.  I can only change the 140%...so it reads 140%>63%.  If it matters, the instructions say go to "End Position" and the basic menu on the Futaba seems to call it E. Point which I believe is the same as End Position. 

 

I tried to get the answer from the Futaba manual but still couldn't figure it out.

 

Any suggestions are appreciated!

 

Jay

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  • Bradley J Carr March 29, 2012 at 12:58pm

    I am not sure who will see this.  But if I have this set up and think its ready to go how can I test it on the ground to make sure that when I shut the radio off I see the inputs change and the APM react to it.

  • Jay Sherwood April 28, 2010 at 7:54pm
    Taylor - it worked! thanks so much. It's probably in the Futaba manual somewhere, but i couldn't find it. By the way, I know you responded to a few of my posts yesterday about not getting the throttle to work through the ArduPilot. To see if I had messed up CH3 on the ardupilot board, I changed substituted CH4 for CH3 in the code, re-uploaded the code and then soldered on connections to CH4 and used that for the throttle. It worked...so i must have somehow screwed up CH3 on the board. Thanks again for the input on this subject. Jay
  • Taylor Cox April 28, 2010 at 7:47pm
    Oh. I just did this yesterday. Two switch the other percentage value you have to flip the toggle switch on the top left side of the radio. There is two toggle switches on the top left, but you flip the one closest to you.

    Let me know if you need more explanation.
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