Hi.
I am setting up a new instillation of the Arduplane and trying to configure failsafe short.
I have set up and observed the channel 3 behaviour in the failsafe screen.
I have ‘taught’ the RX that the throttle can go to about 980ms and when I turn the TX off the channel 3 display confirms this, however it goes into ‘circle’ for about 1 sec and then back to manual until the long failsafe kicks in then RTL.
The thing that seems really odd, if I use the trim to get the throttle below the trigger (I have set 1000) then all works OK but if the same throttle setting is achieved by switching off the above occurs.
I am using an Aurora9 and have tried the RX in both its available modes.
Just to confirm. The channel 3 output IS going below the trigger but Short failsafe only activates if I test this with throttle trim.
It is not just a incorrect report as there is no corrective servo action from the plane if moved.
Please help. I dont want to fly until its sorted.
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Just configured a ‘work around’ and set a RX failsafe on channel 8 in the RTL PWM range. It works but I thought the condition of all other channels would be ignored if channel 3 dropped below the trigger (with throttle failsafe active)?
Worryingly, I got to the edge of the TX range today in auto (much less than I expected at 600mts). Telemetry showed the throttle channel dropping to 900 and the mode channel going to FBW-B even though I had set a RX failsafe of RTL on the channel. It should not have mattered as 900 on the throttle channel should have forced a failsafe circ>RTL but it did not.
Fortunately it was only in FBW-B for a few seconds before TX reception was regained.
This is not good at all. Throttle failsafe is not behaving as advertised and I was lucky to get away with it.
Would be good to get a developer comment please.
Further update on failsafe issues.
The graph below was taken from yesterdays flight when there was poor 2.4GHZ reception.
Ch3 clearly drops below 1000ms, my set point. If I understand this correctly TFS should be triggered, however the APM went into FBW-B, presumably because Ch8 defaulted to 1498, which I had set as FBW-B.
So whats going on?
I have been simulating long range this morning be putting the TX (aurora 9) into low power mode and shutting it in a cupboard. I have seen numerous occurrences of the above.
If I just turn off the TX all behaves as it should, Circ then RTL. As a side issue, I had set Ch8 RX failsafe to 1300 (RTL)which is does if I turn off the TX but it seems my RX likes to put out 1498 on Ch8 when its trying to decide if the signal is lost, so I have swapped around the flight modes to make this RTL. BUT, unless I’ve misunderstood all this, all other channels are irrelevant if Ch3 is below the trigger and has been set up correctly?
In the mean time, further long range simulations have now ended up in ‘safe’ modes.
Apologies if Im doing something wrong but I have now spent a long time studying this.
Short – Circle.
Long-RTL
The other 3DR one – not configured.
Its not dropping into manual anymore because I have set a RX failsafe on CH8, now RTL. But am I right in thinking that it SHOULD be irrelevant if CH3 has dropped below preset trigger?
Will look for the other post
Of course I could disable the APM failsafe and just have the RX failsafe set the required mode but that would not allow long/short options.
What are most people doing?
I am still pretty new to all this so please bear with me. The Wiki says:
"Note that Flight Mode 6 cannot be changed from Manual. It's "hardware manual", which means that it's controlled by the failsafe circuit on the APM board to always be able to return you to RC control as a safety measure."
I may have read too much into that. Lots of failsafes here. Tx, throttle activated and gcs. It also says the failsafe only:
So...
Will it hurt anything if the manual mode in my transmitter is set to flight mode 6 (high end of the pulse)?
If my transmitter's failsafe function includes switch position, what flight mode should I have it failsafe to? If it failsafes to Manual mode, will it still RTL if that is the designated failsafe action short/long in MP?
Thanks for your patience
Scott
Scott, I guess you must decide which mode you would like to be in if there is a TX problem. Personally I would like the plane to come home and circle above me while I try to sort it out and if I cant, then its not a long walk to collect the bits.
I see on the MP mode setup screen that the lower one (6?) is greyed out and fixed to manual but you can have any (all?) of the others also set to manual. I guess if the RX response is unpredictable then filling the other mode spaces with the one you want will increase your chances of getting what you want.
As far as APM failure is concerned, it would require some level of functionality to output raw servo PWM. You got me thinking about this so I have just tried to simulate an APM glitch by pressing the reset button while in various modes. The system gives you control over the servos (most of them-more about this) after about 3 seconds, and then returns the original mode after about 10sec, however Im not sure how it would cope in the air with zeroing the gyros.
This has reminded me to start another topic. Having 2 aileron channels so that you can have differential is not working properly. After the APM resets I didn’t get the 2nd aileron back until about 12sec had passed.
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