R/C signal loss

Richard Boyhan April 15, 2013 at 5:19am

Here isthewiki page on fail safe. There is also a link on how to setup a Spektrum radio.
http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/Failsafe

R. D. Starwalt April 15, 2013 at 5:03am

+1 on Richard's post.

As a test for my home built 3DR chassis and DX6i, I hovered about 3 feet off the ground, over thick grass, and shut off the transmitter.

Instant minimum throtte. Instant descent to the ground. That was the Spektrum Rx failsafe taking over.

I have yet to explore the APM failsafe options and configurations. Failsafe and Simple modes are two I plan to explore next.

21 battery cycles on my current airframe (Stabilzed mode only) indicates it is stable enough to venture into other features.

Experiment on!

-=Doug

T3

Richard Boyhan April 15, 2013 at 3:50am

That depends on what you have setup. The Spektrum has a built in fail safe option, which is pretty useless. It gives you a min throttle default, but in a quad copters its useless, because a min throttle your copter still crashes. The APM also has a fail safe option, which you can set to either continue auto flight or RTL. Check the wiki for the setup instructions.

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