In my haste to set up my quad I mistakenly connected the battery to my receiver which was attached to my Nano. I know that I burnt out my receiver (I ordered a new one). Is there a way to diagnose the Nano to see if I damaged it in any way? I have run the firmware configuration tool and when I try to flash the firmware I get the blue message "Uploading firmware to Quadrino, please wait…). I also get a white box that says TUning Requested You have tuning parameters that need to be written to the controller. Would you like to do that now? You should wait until the Quadrino completes the startup process before hitting yes. Yes or No options.
So the board does load the code in the Flash page of the FCT ?
Once that done, are you able to open the WinGUI and connect to your Quadrino Nano ?
Some testing to do if those above are true:
- Connect a receiver and verify that all the channels are showing movement in WinGUI
- Verify that you are able to power the Quadrino Nano from the ESC internal BEC
As it stands right now on the Firmware COnfiguration Tool:
I can find the Nano using Auto Detect
When I click flash firmware I get: Uploading firmware to the Quadrino, please wait… Then it hangs there.
Compile firmware status bar fills up green.
It does not go to “Transfer to Quadrino”
It’s not sounding good.
Have you ever used Arduino IDE? We could try to load a very basic sketch for there. Let me know and I can help.
Try to power it from the motor wiring harness at the same time as usb and retry the FCT
Here are the steps to load the “Blink” example from Arduino. It should give you a Blinking “Status” LED on the Quadrino.
Images with name have been uploaded to guide you.
]Arduino IDE software/:m]
]Set the right “Board” in the “Tools” menu (Quadrino-Nano - Arduino IDE - Board)/:m]
]Set the right “COM” in the “Tools” menu (Quadrino-Nano - Arduino IDE - COM)/:m]
]Open the “Blink” sketch (Quadrino-Nano - Arduino IDE - Blink)/:m]
]Upload code to the Quadrino Nano (Quadrino-Nano - Arduino IDE - Upload)/:m]
I will keep you posted. I have to await my receiver that is on its way from California.
Thank you.
You don’t need a receiver to make the test above.
I downloaded the same version of Arduino that you showed. I Chose the board type that you chose in the graphic because Quadrino Nano was not an option. When I attempt to upload the Blink this is what I get:
Binary sketch size: 1,628 bytes (of a 258,048 byte maximum)
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
avrdude: stk500v2_getsync(): timeout communicating with programmer
I went to control panel and uninstalled the device on COM3. I plugged the Nano back into the USB port and I got the message that the driver was installed successfully. It shows as: Silicon Labs CP210x USB to UART Bridge (COM3)
The only LED action is red and green solid at the top of the nano (by the GPS input) and solid green at the bottom (by the harnesses). I tried with and without Battery running through 2 different Emax ESCs.