Quad Arming Issue

Finnishing up a new build and having a issue. It will only arm with the usb plugged in..
When I plug in the battery I get the first three tones but not the last 2.
Soon as I plug in the usb I get the last 2 and can arm and spin the motors and all that.
If I leave it armed motors spinning and unplug the usb the motors stop .
No arming flags except cli of course. I'm scratching my head.. Probably be bald soon...
 

Tony

Staff member
I think Jared had this issue but I can't for the life of me remember what it was that he did to fix it. He should be in here a little later today.
 

Mazin

New Member
I don't know if the OP of this thread has found the solution but I recently had the same issue and discovered thay my FC was short on juice (had it wired to 5v) and after doing a little reading i figured out that my FC could take full VCC off the PDB (3s-6s).
 

D.O.G.

Goblin 380 Supporter
Silly question but did you calibrate the esc first in motor tab?

BTW, if I was you, I would use betaflight for your quads instead of cleanflight because most of the newer FC are design for betaflight. Just my opinion. You can still use cleanflight but betaflight is like the upgrade of cleanflight. BLHeli configurator is a nice app to have too.
 

Mazin

New Member
BTW, if I was you, I would use betaflight for your quads instead of cleanflight because most of the newer FC are design for betaflight. Just my opinion. You can still use cleanflight but betaflight is like the upgrade of cleanflight. BLHeli configurator is a nice app to have too.
I Agree with this 110% IMHO cleanflight is glitchy as heck. I had a spracing f3 using cleanflight and honestly after using both ill take betaflight and day over cleanflight
 

Tony

Staff member
Cleanflight used to be the firmware configurator for all of the stable versions. Betaflight was the configurator for, well, beta versions. Sometime in the last few years, people just started using betaflight. Now there are others out there but since I'm not a bit quad flyer, I have not used any of the other versions.
 
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