Does Throttle failsafe work on PWM?

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Does Throttle failsafe work on PWM?

Postby DWBB » Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:30 am

Hi,

I've read conflicting stories on whether the Throttle failsafe works on WPM and PPM, or in PPM only. My current receivers currently only failsafe on throttle and I'm running PWM, can I use this feature?

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Re: Does Throttle failsafe work on PWM?

Postby Tom » Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:07 pm

Hi,

The gluonpilot "No RC-signal" looks at the throttle channel when PWM is used. When the throttle channel drops below 900us (930us in the upcoming releases), it will automatically switch to autopilot mode.

In PPM mode this is not used.
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Re: Does Throttle failsafe work on PWM?

Postby DWBB » Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:36 pm

Awesome!

That saves me buying wo new receivers!
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Re: Does Throttle failsafe work on PWM?

Postby DWBB » Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:09 pm

Tom,

Ive been thinking about this, could the threshold be a user configurable setting?

I've had problems with min/max PWM and my radio before, I couldn't get it low enough to trigger RTl.

Pretty please! :mrgreen:
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Re: Does Throttle failsafe work on PWM?

Postby Tom » Fri Jun 29, 2012 4:36 pm

User configurable will be a bit hard... but I'll be happy to send you a version compiled with different settings!
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Re: Does Throttle failsafe work on PWM?

Postby DWBB » Tue Aug 07, 2012 2:23 pm

Thanks TOm,

I'll let you know if I need something special cooked up :mrgreen:
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