Bought this kit a few years ago and am just getting around to putting it together. I assembled it with no problems (thanks to Tony's video) and got through the "Adjustments for gyro and tail neutral settings" in the manual but had no luck getting the swash leveled as the servos seemed to have a mind of their own. I decided to start back from ground zero and re 90 the servos and work my way back up from that. I also deleted my current settings from my DX8 just in case I had something wrong there and started back setting that up also. Originally, I had my satellite connected to the 3gx and I had power to the servos.
I decided that, since I was starting over, I wanted to incorporate the telemetry module, so I added the AR8000 receiver and TM1000 module and wired up everything as in the attached picture. Now, I am wanting to 90 the servos and begin again. My issue is, when I go to bind the system (placing the bind plug in the AR8000 and following the binding procedure), the 3gx makes the audible beeps, but no lights are activated and it appears to be dead. The AR8000 has a solid orange light, and the TM1000 has a solid orange light, the satellite (plugged into the AR8000) does not have any orange light. And, of course, no servos are moving or anything else. I unplugged the AR8000 and tried to bind the 3gx as the receiver (with the satellite plugged into the 3gx) as I had limited success with that configuration before. Again, the audible beeps were heard, but no flashing lights or movement of servos.
With the AR8000 added, I have the ESC/BEC running to the throttle position of the 3gx (as before I began using the AR8000), all the servo wires hooked up to the same location on the 3gx (after double checking to make sure they were connected to the proper posts), the colored servo wires running from the receiver to the 3gx to the proper terminals, and the power wires for the AR8000 running from the sbus bind port on the 3gx to Aux 2 in the AR8000.
Everything appears to be plugged in correctly.
I have been flying a MCPXV2 for the last two years, but I am a complete noob at putting one together and I have been reading so many posts over the last two weeks on how to set this up, I have thoroughly confused myself. If you can help, please type slowly so that I can try to follow (LOL.) I have a headache.
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I decided that, since I was starting over, I wanted to incorporate the telemetry module, so I added the AR8000 receiver and TM1000 module and wired up everything as in the attached picture. Now, I am wanting to 90 the servos and begin again. My issue is, when I go to bind the system (placing the bind plug in the AR8000 and following the binding procedure), the 3gx makes the audible beeps, but no lights are activated and it appears to be dead. The AR8000 has a solid orange light, and the TM1000 has a solid orange light, the satellite (plugged into the AR8000) does not have any orange light. And, of course, no servos are moving or anything else. I unplugged the AR8000 and tried to bind the 3gx as the receiver (with the satellite plugged into the 3gx) as I had limited success with that configuration before. Again, the audible beeps were heard, but no flashing lights or movement of servos.
With the AR8000 added, I have the ESC/BEC running to the throttle position of the 3gx (as before I began using the AR8000), all the servo wires hooked up to the same location on the 3gx (after double checking to make sure they were connected to the proper posts), the colored servo wires running from the receiver to the 3gx to the proper terminals, and the power wires for the AR8000 running from the sbus bind port on the 3gx to Aux 2 in the AR8000.
Everything appears to be plugged in correctly.
I have been flying a MCPXV2 for the last two years, but I am a complete noob at putting one together and I have been reading so many posts over the last two weeks on how to set this up, I have thoroughly confused myself. If you can help, please type slowly so that I can try to follow (LOL.) I have a headache.
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