Pixhawk 1 Solid Blue Light

Hardware Pixhawk family
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I looked up the meaning of the various LEDs, but can’t find out what a steady blue I/O ACT means (the bottom of the three leds in the uppper left corner). Normally it blinks at 2 hz. Mine is a steady blue, which I think indicates a malfunction.

Anyone know what a steady blue LED means?

2

You need to be a little more specific. The Pixhawk design was used by many manufacturers and many used different colored LED’s than the first versions. What exact version of Pixhawk are you inquiring about.

3

Mike,

Thanks for the reply. Its a 3dr Pixhawk. Not sure what other information I can provide to differentiate versions.

Thank you,

David

4

Does this help?
https://pixhawk.org/users/status_leds

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Hunt0r,

Thanks for the link. I’ve read through that a few times previously, but cant find anything about a steady blue LED, Its supposed to blink at 2 hz, but mine is solid blue.

Dave

6

How about this?

Blue - Heartbeat LED

2Hz Blink - Heartbeat Loop Running
Solid - Uploading new firmware for IO (red LED should be solid or blinking unevenly)
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@hunt0r,

Thanks for following up. I did see that but prevoiusly ignored it because I wasn’t uploading firmware. However, I did try uploading copter ( I had plane loaded) and that seems to have fixed the problem,

Now I have another problem. I can connect to the pixhawk loaded with copter but not when plane is loaded. The middle I/O LED is solid amber with plane loaded and off when copter is loaded. Not sure why?

Thanks again for you assistance.

Dave

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Can you describe what procedure you use for loading the (correctly-working) Copter and the (not-working) Plane firmware?

Are you able to try uploading a different version of Plane, or uploading it in a different manner? (e.g. use QGC rather than Mission Planner, or compile-from-source, or something)

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Same procedure for both versions of firmware using mission planner. I even tried loading rover - it worked, no problem .

I upgraded to the lastest version of plane. I loaded the previous version of plane and still couldn’t connect with plane loaded. I can connect with copter and rover loaded, but not plane. Wierd!

10

Very strange.

If I had your problem, I’d try using QGroundControl, or learn to compile-and-upload from the source, see if the results are any different. It might (or might not) be worth you learning to use these methods to see what you can learn…

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Try going back versions of plane until you find one that works or you give up and call it a bad brd.