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Permalink Reply by Don Brooks on January 31, 2012 at 11:24am

Do you mean this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn7fSfj8w20

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Permalink Reply by Jason Tinacci on January 31, 2012 at 11:35am

That's exactly what's happening. 

I successfully bound my DX8 to the AR8000 receiver and completed the radio calibration. Should re-bind?

Or do I reconfigure the radio with the beeping going on by: plugging in Lipo, then USB and entering APM setup?

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Permalink Reply by Don Brooks on January 31, 2012 at 11:41am

Option 2. redo the radio calibration. The beeping should stop after step 2, at the part where you center both the sticks and click OK.

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Permalink Reply by Jason Tinacci on January 31, 2012 at 11:45am

One thing I couldn't see in the video... are the motors twitching? Mine do. That normal?

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Permalink Reply by Don Brooks on January 31, 2012 at 12:01pm

Yes, some motors will twitch when they beep. The motor itself is what acts as a speaker when certain signals are sent to it from the speed controllers, so a beep will produce a small amount of twitching.

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Permalink Reply by Jason Tinacci on January 31, 2012 at 2:19pm

Erg!

I recalibrated the radio with the beeping going and it stopped as you suspected. However, the next time I powered up without the USB the beeping came back. What the heck??!

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Permalink Reply by Jason Tinacci on January 31, 2012 at 4:07pm

Am I supposed to save the settings some how??? So frustrating not knowing what I'm doing...

I thought this was supposed to be a RTF not an WTF :)

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Permalink Reply by Don Brooks on January 31, 2012 at 4:25pm

More like a DIY ;) try reloading the code and starting over, maybe you have bad data in the EEPROM. Or go in the cli (terminal) setup menu, and reset/erase and start over.

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Permalink Reply by Jason Tinacci on January 31, 2012 at 6:10pm

Don, 

First let me say thanks for your help thus far... Sadly, I wish I purchased this as a total build so I could have attained a better understanding of how it was assembled. Next time I guess.

Now I'm left to muddle through the problems I'm having... If I were to reload the code, how can I tell what version I currently have? To reload, do I connect via USB, click the firmware icon and click the ArduCoter V2.2 b4 Quad icon to reload the code? When I click that icon it asks if I want to "upload AdruCopter ..." Is that what you mean when you say reload?

Once I do that, will I just need to begin the setup all over as described here:

http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/AC2_First

Will it automatically recognize the Xbee telemetry module, manometer and other hardware?

Another question regarding the Terminal in APM planner - when I connect via USB without Lipo, and click terminal, I see a bunch of gibberish code that is constantly being written. At one point it does say "ready to fly" but keeps writing gibberish code. That normal?

Any help you'd be able to provide would be most helpful. Thanks again

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Permalink Reply by Don Brooks on January 31, 2012 at 6:22pm

Try with the terminal first. As soon as you start seeing characters being displayed, press enter 3 times. It should say Arducopter 2.2b4, or whatever version is loaded. Then type setup, once in the setup menu, type erase.

IF that doesn't take care of it, then yes, the procedure you described will reload the code. Any hardware you have should be mostly autodetected. If it isn't, then you can go into CONFIGURATION... SETUP.... HARDWARE and enabling things is just a checkbox.

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Permalink Reply by Jason Tinacci on February 1, 2012 at 11:10pm

Hi Don, 

Back again for more fun... not. 

So despite reloading the code, I'm still getting beeping. Constant beeping. When the four wire from the APM to the PDB is connected the beeping is rapid. When it's not, the beeping is slower. 

While it's beeping, I'm able to run the setup and I see my radio inputs, and everything looks fine in APM planner. 

Any other suggestions as to why this beeping continues? Thanks!

ModeratorPermalink Reply by Chris Anderson on February 1, 2012 at 11:18pm

jtinacci: did you calibrate your ESCs? If so, what kind of ESCs are you using? (there are some--not the recommended ones-- that can give trouble; see the Troubleshooting Guide for help with those). 

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