Trouble calibrating SimonK ESC's with HKPilot 2.7

qemicals

qemicals

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Hi, Im building my own drone from scratch.

Things working so far:
-Power is connected properly as far as I know. The flight controller powers up through the ESC's.
-Reciever is connected to the HKPilot outputs, ESC's are connected to the correct inputs.
-Quadcopter has been calibrated on Flight Planner.

I've watched a few youtube videos on how to calibrate the ESC's. I power up the Flight controller with my turnigy9x in the full throttle position. After a beep I pull the battery out and plug it back in, the flight controller makes a small jingle followed by a beep. I pull the throttle down and sometimes it makes a beep, 1 or 2 motors turn on for a few seconds but then nothing happens.

Ive repeated this over and over and I cant get them working.. Does anyone have any ideas or resources that might help? Thanks in advance
 
Can you provide a small parts list?

Your supposed to enable throttle pass-through with the throttle down, then put the throttle all the way up.
After you do this power it.
 
Yep, do you need anything else? The HKPilot is a replica of the APM2.5/7 I think.. Throttle pass-through? Is that something I enable on the turnigy9x? (tx)

Im following instructions to calibrate it but I cant find any info that tells me what the noises the (I think motors or flight controller) are making so im pretty much blind.

Parts:
4 x Sunnysky X2212 980KV Brushless motor
4 x HP SimonK 30A Speed Controller
HKPilot Mega 2.7 Flight Controller
http://www.hobbyking.co.uk/hobbykin..._Module_8ch_Receiver_Mode_2_v2_Firmware_.html

Thanks again,
 
You can just plug the ESC PWM wires into the reciever's throttle channel and do them one at a time.
 
Aha! Ive managed to do what you said and get them to calibrate one at a time... The only problem is that the calibration works when I plug the esc into CH2 instead of CH3 (what I was told online)... Is this normal?

(Ive managed to get the motors to spin when I turn the throttle up now, all disconnected from the flight controller).
 
qemicals said:
Aha! Ive managed to do what you said and get them to calibrate one at a time... The only problem is that the calibration works when I plug the esc into CH2 instead of CH3 (what I was told online)... Is this normal?

(Ive managed to get the motors to spin when I turn the throttle up now, all disconnected from the flight controller).
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Sounds like you might have a mode 1 transmitter. Can you provide a link to where you bought it?
 
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