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Trouble with Throttle

Posted by Jay Sherwood on April 27, 2010 at 2:57pm

I set up my ArduPilot and I am ready to load everything up into my EasyStar, however I can't seem to get the throttle to work when I hook it up through the ArduPilot.  I get no response.  My servos respond without a problem.

 

I am using the Futaba 7C transmitter/receiver and the throttle works without any trouble when I hook it up directely to the Rx via the ESC.

 

Any suggestions would be helpful.

 

Thanks. Jay

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  • Jay Sherwood April 29, 2010 at 5:58pm
    Bill - i will try to fly the plane using CH4 and when i do, i'll let you know what happens. jay
  • Taylor Cox April 27, 2010 at 8:17pm
    Oh ok. I stand corrected. But if you take a look at the picture of the bottom of your board, it looks like ( on the left of the board) that the jumper wire is touching two solder pin points.
  • 3D Robotics
    Chris Anderson April 27, 2010 at 3:04pm
    Assuming you soldered the jumper cables on the bottom as instructed, it probably means that your ESC needs the signal to be reversed:

    //1-7
    #define REVERSE_THROTTLE 1 // 0 = Normal mode. 1 = Reverse mode - Try and reverse your radio first, most ESC use low values for low throttle.
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