Hi,
Looking to see if I have missed an obvious gotcha.
Built a replica of Mr Steele's older 5" quad (Apex, Kiss FCv2, KIss ESC4-1, Crossfire Nano RX) and it was a dream, worked perfectly this last year.
The radio was the trusty Taranis QX7, not done the com-speed mod yet but worked perfectly with the serial speed reduced.
All happy and dandy.
Bought the recently released 3" Apex frame and went Fettec FC, Fettec ESC.
The unit powers fine and the Fettect One-Wire works ok, all registered and set up and I can spin the motors in the Fettec ESC Configurator at will.
Here's the issue(s);
I bought a Crossfire Diversity RX as the Nano was pretty much out of stock most places.
Weight considerations means I needed the Nano from the 5" quad as I am right up to the wire on the weight (249g) of the 3" Apex.
1. Desoldered the Nano from the 5" quad and soldered it into the 3" quad. As suspected it kept the bind to the radio fine and I can see it in TBS Agent and the crossfire.lua, but in the Kiss configurator I cannot for the life of me get any response to any switch, also no data is getting through to the graphs when you wiggle the sticks. This is a new build so has not yet 'worked', but I kinda know what I'm doing(!) in the configurator, just cannot get it to this last stage.
Have I fried the Nano on desoldering?
Putting a multimeter either side of the solder joint shows continuity.
2. Went into the QX7 model list and copied the existing 'model'. Soldered the Diversity RX into the 5" quad. It bound fine, is found in TBS agent, found in the crossfire.lua script, but exactly the same issue, no data is getting into Kiss configurator when move the sticks. Is it possible I fried this too wiring it up, as that seems pretty bad luck given everything else I've soldered on both quads is fine.
Thoughts;
The MicroTX and Nano RX when they worked in the 5" quad were firmware 3.72 and worked fine, then. The Diversity arrived as v3.72. Since mucking around as above with no joy, I updated all three items to v4.11 with the same result.
I have checked the 'models' on the QX7 and they both seem fine, being copies of each other.
The RXs are both powering on and detected, it's the data passthough that is not working.
Questions;
Have I upset something by having two crossfire receivers bound to the QX7?
Everything was fine with just one quad, but by making the cardinal sin of two changes at once (moving the RX from the working old quad to the new one and then putting a new RX in the old quad) I have foxed myself as I don't know whether the issue lies with me, the radio setup or something I'm missing on both quads.
Having never used two quads with one radio, is it quite simply a case of once either is bound and linked with the QX7/CRSF-MicroTX then ~either~ of the 'models' created in the QX7 will magically work, especially as one was working previously and I just copied the model in the menu of is there something I am ignorant of in how to select which model in the model list against how Crossfire links the model to the quad?
My thoughts are to do the QX7 com-port speed mod this weekend as really I should just do it.
I also am thinking about sourcing two new Nano RX's in case I have somehow torched them with the desolder-resolder.
Any thoughts appreciated.
I.D.
Looking to see if I have missed an obvious gotcha.
Built a replica of Mr Steele's older 5" quad (Apex, Kiss FCv2, KIss ESC4-1, Crossfire Nano RX) and it was a dream, worked perfectly this last year.
The radio was the trusty Taranis QX7, not done the com-speed mod yet but worked perfectly with the serial speed reduced.
All happy and dandy.
Bought the recently released 3" Apex frame and went Fettec FC, Fettec ESC.
The unit powers fine and the Fettect One-Wire works ok, all registered and set up and I can spin the motors in the Fettec ESC Configurator at will.
Here's the issue(s);
I bought a Crossfire Diversity RX as the Nano was pretty much out of stock most places.
Weight considerations means I needed the Nano from the 5" quad as I am right up to the wire on the weight (249g) of the 3" Apex.
1. Desoldered the Nano from the 5" quad and soldered it into the 3" quad. As suspected it kept the bind to the radio fine and I can see it in TBS Agent and the crossfire.lua, but in the Kiss configurator I cannot for the life of me get any response to any switch, also no data is getting through to the graphs when you wiggle the sticks. This is a new build so has not yet 'worked', but I kinda know what I'm doing(!) in the configurator, just cannot get it to this last stage.
Have I fried the Nano on desoldering?
Putting a multimeter either side of the solder joint shows continuity.
2. Went into the QX7 model list and copied the existing 'model'. Soldered the Diversity RX into the 5" quad. It bound fine, is found in TBS agent, found in the crossfire.lua script, but exactly the same issue, no data is getting into Kiss configurator when move the sticks. Is it possible I fried this too wiring it up, as that seems pretty bad luck given everything else I've soldered on both quads is fine.
Thoughts;
The MicroTX and Nano RX when they worked in the 5" quad were firmware 3.72 and worked fine, then. The Diversity arrived as v3.72. Since mucking around as above with no joy, I updated all three items to v4.11 with the same result.
I have checked the 'models' on the QX7 and they both seem fine, being copies of each other.
The RXs are both powering on and detected, it's the data passthough that is not working.
Questions;
Have I upset something by having two crossfire receivers bound to the QX7?
Everything was fine with just one quad, but by making the cardinal sin of two changes at once (moving the RX from the working old quad to the new one and then putting a new RX in the old quad) I have foxed myself as I don't know whether the issue lies with me, the radio setup or something I'm missing on both quads.
Having never used two quads with one radio, is it quite simply a case of once either is bound and linked with the QX7/CRSF-MicroTX then ~either~ of the 'models' created in the QX7 will magically work, especially as one was working previously and I just copied the model in the menu of is there something I am ignorant of in how to select which model in the model list against how Crossfire links the model to the quad?
My thoughts are to do the QX7 com-port speed mod this weekend as really I should just do it.
I also am thinking about sourcing two new Nano RX's in case I have somehow torched them with the desolder-resolder.
Any thoughts appreciated.
I.D.
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