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Barrahazard replied to Barrahazard's discussion No ESC tones after crash
"Ok so I have now confirmed that the PX4 is not receiving the ppm from the receiver. I am trying to confirm whether it is the receiver or the FMU that is at fault. the receiver is definitely receiving all channels however the receiver was retro…"
Jan 30, 2014
Barrahazard posted a discussion
Hi All,So during an autonomous flight on GPS and the copter lost its fix and went to failsafe and landed, into a fence unfortunately.I took the copter in for inspection and powered up to verify all was functioning correctly however there was no tone…
Jan 30, 2014
Barrahazard replied to Barrahazard's discussion xbee/ px4 flow usart
"I have the xbee working on UART5 so that is great. I am running APM 2.5 and I am trying to get the PX4 Flow to talk to the PX4 FMU (no IO board) with little (no) success.

Has anyone else managed this?"
Jan 27, 2014
Barrahazard posted a discussion
hi all,So I am connecting both the flow and an xbee to my px4 fmu without an IO board.What usart should I use for the xbee and flow?Cheers.
Jan 22, 2014
Barrahazard replied to Barrahazard's discussion Throttle not at zero when armed
"I have found a parameter called MOT_SPIN_ARMED and set it to zero.

I helps but I still have the motors spinning up unless I hold the throttle down (literally). I hooked up an oscilloscope to the output and the signal was jumping around at low…"
Dec 5, 2013
Barrahazard posted a discussion
When I arm my copter the motors spin up straight away. PX4 with Arducopter 3.1-rc7 and 20A hobbyking ESCs.I have done my ESC calibration and RC calibration, my flight mode is Stabilize. When I do the ESC calibration zero throttle is zero throttle…
Dec 5, 2013
Barrahazard replied to Barrahazard's discussion Unusual LED pattern
"so I have tried to flash the PX4 again and no matter what I try as soon as I power the board the LED goes solid blue (after bootloader) and I cannot connect to mavlink. I re-flashed it again after but with the same result. Can anyone shed some light…"
Dec 1, 2013
Barrahazard replied to Barrahazard's discussion Unusual LED pattern
"can anyone please tell me why I get a solid blue LED on ARM? Additionally now when I connect the PX4 to USB I get a solid blue LED straight away and I cant connect over MAVLINK. Any Ideas? Cheers"
Dec 1, 2013
Barrahazard posted a discussion
So I have found two guides on the patterns I should expect from the PX4:http://copter.ardupilot.com/wiki/common-apm-board-leds/https://pixh... pattern I get when I arm is not described in either. When I power up the…
Nov 26, 2013