My first 250 quad, but i can't fly it (RX/TX problem)

[marc512]

Hi there. I built my first quad using zmr250 frame, mt2204 motors, afro 12a ESCs and a naze32 board. I am having difficulties with my DX5e / AR600.

I was exited when I got it all together, plugged in the battery and it all powered on! So of course, I switched on my receiver and nothing happened. So I decided to plug it into the laptop and download baseflight. After downloading the drivers, I got the naze32 board connected to baseflight. Moving it around shows up on the program, al the motors work (1 spins the wrong way but I will fix that after I type this out). In the receiver menu, i can see all the movements work. It gets throttle, roll pitch and yaw. But it doesn't do anything to the copter?

I have not used this controller in 5 years. Isn't there away to "arm" the controller? The receiver blinks red lights, sometimes. When I switch the transmitter on, an orange light comes on. Sometimes the red light blinks and after googling, it's a hold issue?

I'm glad all the motors work and that but this is really annoying!

Can anyone give any pointers?

Thanks
Marc

 

[Slurm]

You might need to bind the rx to tx and then it's likely you need to arm the quad by a procedure on the tx.

Hope that's all it is...

 

[marc512]

You might need to bind the rx to tx and then it's likely you need to arm the quad by a procedure on the tx.

Hope that's all it is...

Thanks for that! I originally had it in a plane and flew it only a few times. Surely it doesn't need to be binded again?

Would you happen to know how to arm the dx5e/ar600? I can't find anywhere online. I'm sure I have to pull the switch behind the trainer switch back, turn it on then release. Can't really remember.

 

[Slurm]

Sorry I don't, could try youtube. I couldn't work out my tx when I first got it and I eventually caught someone doing it as they played with their quad

 

[holtneil]

Hi mate if the transmitter and receiver was used in a plane then its bound already , you do need to arm the nase to get the motors to spin up I think its throttle down and right to arm down and left to disarm

 

[marc512]

Hi mate if the transmitter and receiver was used in a plane then its bound already , you do need to arm the nase to get the motors to spin up I think its throttle down and right to arm down and left to disarm

Thanks! I will try this tomorrow. I found the DX5e manual and there is a different way to bind it to a aircraft that uses ESCs. So I thought that could be the problem. I made a bind plug to rebind it but it wouldn't rebind. The receiver still works in the program though, so I assume It's still bound and I didn't break anything.

 

[marc512]

Just got time to try your suggestion. It didn't do anything, in fact it made my DX5e start up and have a continously long beep. I struggled to find anything online on how to fix this. My receiver lights don't come on as well. I have purchased a DX6 and I got someone to bind that up and they failed. I'll make a new post on it since it will be easier for others with the same issue.

 

[holtneil]

The receiver must be bad, to bind DX6 first fit bind plug to the receiver and power up so the receiver light will flash , just use a ESC and a lipo to power the receiver , now with a model set up on the transmitter , press and hold the bind button on the DX6 and while held power up transmitter keep bind button held till it bound to the receiver is the DX6 is like the DX9 it will tell you its bound then receiver light will now be on and not flashing, turn every thing off remove bind plug , and thats it all bound

 

[James Goodwin]

If you see channels moving its bound. you need to make sure your end points are within range or your naze wont arm.