I have a APM Ver 1 which I recently installed into a 3DR Hex frame. I have a problem getting channel 6 to work. When I calibrate the radio channel 6 does not work if I unplug ch6 from the receiver and plug it in again it works until the radio is switched off.
If I update the PPM encoder firmware will it solve this problem
I am using a futaba14mz and 7channel 2.4 Ghz receiver
Thanks
David Ardis
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Is there someplace in the Arducopter code or whatever code is using the PPM signal where you can set the # of channels to 1 greater than you actually have? If your encoder is connected to 6 channels, then set the code that reads the encoder output to 7.
It's a shot in the dark, but I had a similar problem with an encoder. Different firmware, different encoder, but the code that read the PPM output needed to be set to 7(6 + 1) before it would read it.