[SOLVED] Range Values freezing

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hamsterasu
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[SOLVED] Range Values freezing

Post by hamsterasu »

Hi,

I have this issue on my bolt drone(with flow deck v2 and multiranger deck) where the range values from the multiranger deck and the z-ranger values would stay at the same value and freeze. Sometimes it happens right at the start, sometimes it happens mid-flight, which caused a few crashes. When this happens, the flow deck still continues to update flow values whereas the z-ranger values was stuck at a fixed value. I have checked the physical pins and ensured that they were in place. The deck also passed the self-tests at boot up in each of these occurences. Any help would be welcomed! :D
kimberly
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Re: Range Values freezing

Post by kimberly »

Hmm that is odd!

Have you tried the decks individually, so only the flowdeck or only the multiranger? Do you see freezing in ranging then as well?
hamsterasu
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Re: Range Values freezing

Post by hamsterasu »

This is gonna sound a little stupid but we realised that the problem arose because we were tapping the 5V pins and Gnd pins for a FPV camera. So the camera was competing for power with both decks. The problem was solved when we removed the FPV camera!
kimberly
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Re: Range Values freezing

Post by kimberly »

Ahhhh that makes sense! This would be a good one to keep in mind that this can happen.

Thanks for updating us!
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