Aircraft Power
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| STEP | ACTION |
|---|---|
1 | Press and hold the power button (Fig. 1) on the chassis until the button illuminates green. This takes about nine seconds. |
2 | There are Navigation LEDs on the end of all six arms on the aircraft. These become active. |
| LED Color | Aircraft Orientation |
|---|---|
Red | Front-Left (Port) |
Green | Front-Right (Starboard) |
White | Side and Rear (2 rear motors) |
3 | The aircraft will emit a series of beeps during the initialization sequence. The GPS status indicators will illuminate. |
| LED Color | Behavior | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
Blue | Flashing On/Off | Waiting for GPS lock |
Green | Flashing | GPS lock obtained, Ready to fly |
Red | Flashing | See GCS for error message details OR Reboot aircraft |
| LED Color | Behavior | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
Red and Blue | Flashing | Initializing gyroscopes. Hold the vehicle still and level while it initializes the sensors. |
Blue | Flashing | Disarmed, no GPS lock found |
Blue | Solid | Armed, no GPS lock |
Green | Flashing | Disarmed (ready to arm), GPS lock acquired |
Green | Fast Flashing | Same as above but GPS is using SBAS |
Green | Solid (single long tone at the time of arming) | Armed, GPS lock acquired. Ready to fly |
Yellow | Flashing Double | Failing pre-arm checks (system refuses to arm). Check the pre-arm error message |
Yellow | Single Flashing | Radio failsafe activated |
Yellow | Flashing (quick beeping tone) | Battery failsafe activated |
Yellow and Blue | Flashing (high-high-high-low tone sequence "dah-dah-dah-doh") | GPS glitch or GPS failsafe activated |
Red and Yellow | Flashing (rising tone) | EKF or Inertial Nav failure |
Purple and Yellow | Flashing | Barometer has problem |
Red | Solid | Error. Usually due to inability to detect SD card (try to re-plug or replace SD card), MTD device, or IMU sensors. Analysis can be found in BOOT.txt in SD card. |
Red | Solid (SOS tone sequence) | SD Card missing (or other SD error, i.e., bad format etc.) |
No Light | Not lighting up | No firmware detected or firmware corrupted |
| STEP | ACTION |
|---|---|
1 | FIRST Power down any camera attached to the aircraft |
2 | Press the power button on the IF1200A (Fig. 2) to power down the aircraft |
3 | Disconnect the battery power cables from the aircraft (pull on the connectors, not the wires) |
4 | Power down the hand controller by keeping the Power button pressed in, then follow the on-screen prompts |
