I got my APM three weeks ago. I assembled it and started with setup and test step by step as the instructions manual. Every thing looks fine except the radio inputs.
First I run the demos. The dancing demo works fine, all eight outputs works as the video. But the reading channels demo doesn’t works at all.
I went directly to ArduPilotMega firmware. Downloaded last version; APM Beta 1.0 from October 03th. IMU Test as GPS, Speed sensor, Static pressure, EEPROM works OK. But radio input channels doesn’t. I went to CLI and perform “Reset to factory” and connected channel 1 to 4 from my Futaba 14 channels RX.
RxCh1 to InpCh1 make blue led speedup flashing.
RxCh2 to InpCh2 not speedup led; but RxCh2 to InpCh1 yes
RXCh3 and 4 doesn’t speed up no one of the InpCh’s
Performing “setup_radio” with all the first four channels connected give this output:
Radio Setup:
Move both sticks to each corner. Hit Enter to save: Saving:
CH1: 1101 / 1679
CH2: 1500 / 1501
CH3: 900 / 901
CH4: 1500 / 1501
CH5: 1000 / 2000
CH6: 1000 / 2000
CH7: 1000 / 2000
CH8: 1000 / 2000
It looks like only input CH1 is reading and only RxCh1 and 2 can be read.
Any idea? Should I reload the multiplexer firmware?
Thanks. Eduardo
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