i am designing a drone with arduino nano, but i have a problem with the radio control receiver. I have a flysky fs-i6 radio remote control and a receiver that I need to connect to the arduino nano board. I state that the remote control is already paired with the receiver. to carry out a test in order to check the operation of the remote control I connected the receiver to the Arduino 5v pin and the 4 channels to pins D2, D4, D5, D6. to carry out the test via pc, i feed the board via usb at this point the light of the receiver starts flashing, i launch the multiwii software then when i turn on the remote control, the pc no longer recognizes the arduino board. I tried to connect the receiver to the Arduino VIN pin and turn on the remote control again at this point the computer continues to recognize the card, but it is difficult to recognize the remote control commands. i would like to understand what the problem is and if arduino nano manages to transmit enough current to the receiver
Measurement will answer that question.
Paul
Monitor the 5V pin with your DMM to see if it remains steady or is pulled down when the receiver is connected. What happens?
I don't have a ddm, would there be another way?
An old style analogue meter would do, instead of a digital multi meter, or an oscilloscope.
If your 'designing' a drone then it neads to be safe, so some equipment will be required to check it out properly.
Edit: as a point of information, I do keep an analogue multi meter (An Avo 8), its useful for measurements on some transmitters when a digital meter gets 'confused' by the level of local RF ..........
I've tried multiple arduino nano boards, but the same thing happens with all of them
Please post a system wiring diagram.
Hello
Take a second Arduino and load a sketch for a DMM.
What does the manual for this say about supply current?
the receiver operating current is 40mA
What does this mean? What exactly happens? Do you see commands but don't understand them or what?
Also you never mention connecting ground from the receiver to the Nano. Did you?
Steve
in the sense when I connect the + of the receiver to the arduino pin vin and turn on the remote control, the arduino does not disconnect, but the commands of the radio control do not give results. I connected the + to the VIN pin and the - to the arduino gnd pin
See reply #7. Schematics are how electronic circuits are described. How to make a schematic.
The thread title says, "when I turn on the radio transmitter"... so receive current isn't the important thing, it's transmit current.
How did you "turn on the radio transmitter", anyway?
I cannot find the corresponding data currently in transmission. however, I have access to the transmitter by simply clicking on the power button of the remote control
Please modify the drawing you posted, so that there are text labels on the PS-1A6 pins. Also include in the drawing, any power sources or any other hardware that might be connected. Show how the Nano is powered. Supply a clickable link to documentation on the PS-1A6.
In the drawing, wires go into the sides of the PS-1A6 box, not connecting with the pins. This leaves it ambiguous which pins the wires are connected to, and also although the pin rows have the labels (S) (or something), '+' or '-'. But the columns have no labels. What are they? Don't answer the question, modify the drawing and repost.
Vin (note the IN) is not intended as an OUTPUT to power other equipment. Use the 5V pin instead (if the Nano is powered by USB).
And post your code. You can get in lots of trouble just by using the wrong names for pins.
Steve
...in code tags, please...
