APM / Arducopter Spektrum Receiver Setup Help Needed

Posted by Peter Walker on May 10, 2014 at 8:35am

Hello Everyone,

I just recently purchased the APM 2.6 Set and want to use my Spektrum DX7 Radio and an AR6200 Receiver. I will be using the two on a Quadcopter with Arducopter and I was wondering if there was anyone with experience using this setup or a setup like it that could help me get mine connected and running?

I have read on the Wiki the part about using a PPM jumper on the Signal Jacks of Channels 2 and 3 of the APM and using a regular 3 Lead Connector to the Receiver via Channel 1 on the APM and Channel 1 on the Receiver. Is that all I need to do in order to use that receiver or is there something I'm missing? Any help and information would be greatly appreciated.

Peter

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    Bill Bonney May 10, 2014 at 8:47am
    You will need one of these https://store.3drobotics.com/products/ppm-encoder to create a ppm stream. But that said there is a ppm encoder built onto the APM2.6. Just connect each PWM output on your receiver to the channel in on the APM2.6
    • Peter Walker > Bill Bonney May 10, 2014 at 9:00am

      I'm not quite sure I completely understand what you are saying. The AR6200 Receiver is a PPM receiver as far as I understand it. With a PPM Encoder built into the APM 2.6, why would I need the item you linked to in the store?

    • Peter Walker May 10, 2014 at 9:29am

      Thank you Johann and Bill. The help is greatly appreciated!

      So to use the AR6200 with the APM 2.6, I just need to add a 3 wire servo lead from each of the receiver channels to the corresponding channels of the APM and the built in encoder will handle the rest?

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