Naze not getting signal from Radio

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jinx083464

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Parts involved
Flight Controller - Acro Naze 32
Receiver - FrSky D4R-II
Radio - Taranis

Put together my first quadcopter. plugged/soldered everything together before applying power for the first time. When applying power I got magic smoke from one of my kiss ESC's. I've removed that ESC and while waiting on repalcement parts I was trying to get my radio set up. I only mention the missing esc and motor because it may be related, though I'm not sure, there was no smoke or smell from the flight controller and looked closely at my soldering, and there appears to be nothing shorted. I hope, and don't think my FC got ruined. When plugged into cleanflight, the accelerometer works fine, and I can force the motors to spin by playing around with mincommand=1980 in the CLI

I've paired up my Taranis with the D4R-II by hitting the pair button on the taranis, and then holding the FR button on the receiver while plugging in the battery. Then when powering on both devices again I get solid green light on the receiver, and the radio is getting telemetry (RSSI, and probably battery level too). I was planning on testing to see if my motors spin the right way, but I can't seem to get any signal from the radio to the flight controller. The D4R-II has the jumper pin across ch3 and ch4 to enable PPM. its ch1, negative and positive are plugged into the first 3 slots in the naze (negative wire to the blank spot on the naze, positive to the big dot, and signal to the ch1 on the naze).

I have fiddled around with commands in cleanflight, and this may be related to the issue. When I have the battery and USB plugged in, and the Taranis seemingly paired properly, I get no indication that the flight controller is getting any signal from the taranis/receiver. I go to the receiver tab in cleanflight for example, and none of the bars will move when I play around with the sticks, switches and dials on the radio. Trying to hold the radio's sticks in different dirrections to Arm it or calibrate seemingly also do nothing. In the Cleanflight configuration tab, I do have RX_ppm enabled. The Naze has solid Blue and Red lights on them, my Kiss ESC's have solid blue lights on them.
I'm hopping I just set some bad stuff up in the CLI since I was punching in commands I saw on various websites without really knowing what they were doing. (baudrate, softshell, telemetry port, looptime and I'm sure other things).
 
Hi mate first we need to know the receiver is working ok , plug in one ESC to the throttle channel with one motor plugged into ESC, turn on transmitter put to full throttle then power the ESC and one motor it should bleep then lower throttle and it will bleep again , turn everything off
OK now turn on transmitter again and power up the ESC , try the throttle the motor should spin if the receiver is working ( you may have to rebind transmitter to the receiver) The transmitter needs to be set up as an aero ( plane) no mixing at all
Try that and come back to me ( DO NOT MOUNT A PROP ON THE MOTOR)
 
I unplugged the signal from one of my ESC's and fed it directly into the ch1 of the receiver. the ESC is still getting power from the battery, and the receiver is still getting its power from the FC/PDB. I set up a new profile on the transmitter for a plane with ch1 as the prop, and then rebinded the RX and TX. Turned on the transmitter and put it at full throttle, then powered on the RX, ESC + motor. I still get no reaction out of the esc or motor when playing around with the throttle. I believe this is what you wanted me to test, though I didn't get successful results.
 
Hi I really needed you to leave the wires in the plugs so I am sure your getting the right pins , if you plug the 3 wires from the esc into the receiver throttle channel and there is still no response from the esc/ motor then it sound like the receiver is not working , have you an servo that you can plug in to receiver to double check its the receiver
 
OK. finally got around to ripping apart an old project to obtain a servo. I have plugged in the servo and the transmitter does in fact send signal to the receiver, and the receiver in turn, will manipulate the servo. I appreciate the help in removing some components as the possible problem I'm having. So it seems its not the TX or RX, but rather the acro naze32 is not getting the signal from the receiver. Any recommendations on next step for troubleshooting the naze32? Again, I've got the receiver connected to the naze with ground to the left-most top side, positive is connected to the pin with the dot, and the pin labeled 1 for the CPPM signal, so the wiring has got to be right, its got to be either a hardware failure or software setting I think.
 
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