Hello,
I am completely new and in need of some help. I just bought a 3DR X8 and it came with a Spektrum dx7s.
I am trying to arm the motors to check and see if they work. I have followed the startup sequence outlined in the quick start guide. The lights and tones seem to come up normal, but I am new so... It is flashing green on the main status light. I pressed the safety button and it is solid red.
I should now be ready to arm the motors? I have moved the left stick to the lower right. Nothing happens. I tried to the moving the stick to the lower left (disable) just to see if something was reversed, but nothing.
I can connect to the mission planner, but don't know what to do on there to check anything out. I am in well over my head and this is all so new.
I was able to see on Mission Planner that I have 5 flight modes working. So that much is working.
If someone is willing to spend a little time and get me going, that would be wonderful.
Thank you,
Mark
Until then, I will keep reading and trying.
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Thank you for your help.
I found two things wrong:
The compass needed calibration, so the motors would not arm until that was completed - I didn't get a manual with this multicopter. I have been reading online, but there is so much information I got lost - plus I have an X8 with a DS7s radio and a Pixhawk. Most of the information is for the X8+ with the 3DR Frsky radio.
Second thing wrong was I needed to move the left stick to the bottom left, not bottom right to arm.
Those two problems made this newbie get stumped.
Now I just need to figure out how to reverse everything. The motor arming should be left stick bottom right. Plus the copter reacts opposite to the way it should when I move it (motors on, props off).
If they do then I have no clue unless I look at it myself. If they don't arm, that means that something is wrong on the software side, or the transmitter side. Sometimes the transmitter can be calibrated a bit off when you move the sticks "to their extreme positions" and therefore the flight controller doesn't think that you are actually in the right hand corner when you are. I don't have your hardware to be sure, but to me that seems like what has happened.
Hope this helps,
Louis