Done all the calibration and other checks but cannot get the system to arm.
Does anyone know what the 5LED’s at the top of the PixHawk signify. I have solid for the 2-Power and for the B/E FMU. The IO ACT is flashing blue and the IO B/E is off. I suspect this should tell me something but I don’t know what!
I can press the arm button on the copter and the LED on it goes from flashing a sequence of 3 or 4 flashes to solid, but the PixHawk does not respond to arming from the Tx. No Planner messages just no arming. Tried adjusting the TX trim but that made no difference.
pseddon,
There’s a wiki page with the various sounds and the main rgb led’s meanings but nothing for the 5 LEDs. we will add that. copter.ardupilot.com/wiki/common-apm-board-leds/
The pixhawk has two parts to it, the FMU (flight management unit) and the I/O part so that’s why there are two PWR (i.e. power) leds.
the HUD is moving around ok in the mission planner? Any weird sounds coming out of the sound alarm? Radio input is ok on the radio calibration page in the mission planner?
The start up tone is correct and I get no other tones.
I decided to redo the Receiver calibration and find my throttle and elevator channels are swapped. I am using JR radio TAER5678 channel order. I discovered the RCMAP parameters in the parameter list, changed the channels and everything now arms correctly.
[quote=“rmackay9”]pseddon,
There’s a wiki page with the various sounds and the main rgb led’s meanings but nothing for the 5 LEDs. we will add that. copter.ardupilot.com/wiki/common-apm-board-leds/
The pixhawk has two parts to it, the FMU (flight management unit) and the I/O part so that’s why there are two PWR (i.e. power) leds.
the HUD is moving around ok in the mission planner? Any weird sounds coming out of the sound alarm? Radio input is ok on the radio calibration page in the mission planner?[/quote]
Randy,
For what it’s worth, that page says nothing about the actual LEDs on the Pixhawk itself. I ran into the same issue trying to understand what the flash sequences on the B/E LEDs indicated while troubleshooting an issue with the Pixhawk, and I couldn’t find any of those things documented.
…but it would probably be good to have that on the Pixhawk page as well.[/quote]
When I click this link I arrive at “This topic does not exist yet”
It would have been a good idea to provide this info in the Pixhawk Quick start guide that came with the product.
And of course in the appropriate wiki pages.
