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  John McGrath July 24, 2013 at 8:11am

  Need a little help here. I have a month old Hexa from 3Dr. I was testing my gimbal this morning and when I when to launch one of the motors was not spinning much should I look at the motor going out or esc?  A month old not good at all.
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  mark July 24, 2013 at 7:33am

  Hi Wayne, Bill, et al,

  I just uploaded a video of my setup and apparent problem.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beOt-r2cU7s

  I am really excited to get this thing in the air. I believe it has all the components... but I must be not doing something correctly.

  Any advice/ suggestions are more than welcome.

  Thanks to all viewers,

  mark
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  Wayne Morris July 24, 2013 at 5:37am

  Mark, if you have the power module, you don't need the jumper. If you don't use the power module you can use the jumper. It should have some with the APM controller. It is a small black square. This is a jumper like is used on a hard drive and other electronics to select options.

  Look at this link to see the options on powering.

  http://copter.ardupilot.com/wiki/common-apm25_overview/
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  iskess July 23, 2013 at 11:12pm

  Mark,
  When I said do a "reset" I don't mean hit the reset button, I meant via CLI, type in 'SETUP', 'RESET' and it wipes your board clean back to factory defaults. Then I loaded my parameters, then my GPS started working. I have no idea if this is your problem, but I had the same symptom and that's how I got it working again.
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  Bill Bonney July 23, 2013 at 8:52pm

  @mark: please go to http://copter.ardupilot.com for step by step setup instructions. I'm assuming you have the APM Power module so there is no need to use the power supply from the ESCs. This means you less likely have a brownout and a crash. If you have any further questions, raise then as a forum discussion as its much easier to discuss the particulars. Thnaks
  
  (Wow: autocorrected from setup to stupid. That's definitely not what I meant!)
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  mark July 23, 2013 at 8:34pm

  @Wayne, so I would need that jumper in order to power it like I would the kk2 board correct? Sorry if I sound like a newbie... I am! Where could I get such a jumper?
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  mark July 23, 2013 at 8:30pm

  Thanks @Wayne. Man, I really want to get this thing set up! More tomorrow. Thanks all!
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  Wayne Morris July 23, 2013 at 8:05pm

  @Mark -

  APM 2.5 has a two buss system for power. If you use the 3DR power module, it can power the receiver and APM. There is a jumper you can install and power the entire system from one of the ESCs. Check the setup stuff on the APM.
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  mark July 23, 2013 at 7:47pm

  Yeah I just tried the reset button, and loaded in everything again.. still nothing. I'll get it, just really frustrating... I will say I am super excited about getting this all to work. My next problem seems to be the electrical which for whatever reason doesnt seem to take the power from the ESCs... oh well... one step at a time. Thanks for the response. Any help is totally welcome ;) ---cheers all.
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  iskess July 23, 2013 at 6:59pm

  I had a similar thing happen where the GPS wasn't bring seen. I swapped out with another GPS and that didn't help, so I knew it was a software issue. I saved my parameters, reset the APM, reloaded the parameters and everything worked again.
  I'll never know what happened.