X8 motors not arming

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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  • Hey Louis,

    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).
  • Does your board and lights arm or not?
    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
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