Taranis failsafe = fail?

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I hope I’m missing something really obvious here…but I can’t seem to get my X8R (all three of them) to transmit “no pulses” on all channels - it seems to revert to middle PWM if the Taranis is turned off. I suspect this will kill my failsafe RTL, as one of the affected channels is channel 5. As you can see below (all three X8R’s are freshly bound):

Transmit on:
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And what happens when I turn off the Taranis:
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This is really annoying. It recognised the 900 What can I do to the taranis to preserve the Throttle PWM value of 900 when I switch off the tx, but leave everything else as “hold”? At the moment it looks like it will just switch to alt hold immediately after RTL is called; not very failsafe!

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do you use Sbus or a number of servo outputs ?

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[quote=“silverburn”]I hope I’m missing something really obvious here…but I can’t seem to get my X8R (all three of them) to transmit “no pulses” on all channels - it seems to revert to middle PWM if the Taranis is turned off. I suspect this will kill my failsafe RTL, as one of the affected channels is channel 5. As you can see below (all three X8R’s are freshly bound):

Transmit on:
[attachment=0]before.png[/attachment]

And what happens when I turn off the Taranis:
[attachment=1]after.png[/attachment]

This is really annoying. It recognised the 900 What can I do to the taranis to preserve the Throttle PWM value of 900 when I switch off the tx, but leave everything else as “hold”? At the moment it looks like it will just switch to alt hold immediately after RTL is called; not very failsafe![/quote]

you didn’t mention how did you set the failsafe on the X8R. Pressing the little switch less than a second, on the X8R, will store the failsafe of all your channels (in theory). the X8R LED will blink green twice to indicates it actually saved your values.

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Have you tested it to see what it does. What I do to test is take the props off, arm the quad, increase the throttle and then i move the quad a few feet over then switch off the radio and listen on mission planner and it should switch to rtl or land when it goes to fail safe.