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I got my replacement APM2 last week. Thanks for getting it to me so quickly by the way. Anyway I got everything up and running. I did some test flights in the living room and everything was going great. I started to tune the PID's and it was hovering nice and steady.

I swapped out batteries and plugged it in. I noticed that my remote was not working any more. I had signal and the light on the receiver was on. I plugged it into the USB and kind of like before it would not be recognized by windows. I bought a programmer the last time around and grabbed it. Sure enough the 32U2 was blank. So I flashed it with the latest code.

Now when I plug it in it's like someone is plugging and unplugging it very fast. Sometimes I can get it to stay connected for a second sometimes 45 seconds. I got it to stay long enough once to reload the firmware through APM Planner. I get multiple connection beeps like I just plugged in three things at once. Then it will get a couple disconnect beeps like I unplugged two things. It just sits there and loads and unloads over and over again.

I checked the connections and looked as best I could at the connector on the APM2 to make sure it was fine. Doesn't seem to matter if I plug it in and leave it laying there or plug it in and shake it about. I get the same results.

I can however connect just fine to the 3DR radio. I have been doing everything over that for now. I was just worried though that I might be flying along and have the PPM stop working and I would loose control.

Anyone got an idea of what might be happening and better yet why it happened. All I did was swap to a new battery.

Updateed

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I am on Arducopter 2.6. Now sometimes the radios don't connect until after a few resets. Wondering if it because of all the chatter. The orange LEDs are on constantly not like before.

Any ideas would be great.

I have not heard back from support. I sent them email going on three weeks ago now.

Thanks,

Jeremy