Flashing green LED on Naze board

[Clint]

So I got my latest tricopter together with the intergrated naze frame and the PCB. My question is what does it mean when the green LED flashes? I can’t find anything pertaining to the LED “code” for the naze boards. My standalone board doesn’t do this, only the steady blue. I assume there is something wrong but can’t figure it out.

The only thing I have found pertaining to the LED pertains to boot loader mode. Any help would be appreciated.

Oh and how do you switch he channels around? I only ask because when I am in the receiver window and move the throttle it moves the pitch bar and the rudder moves the throttle bar.

[efbe]

I think its flashes when You tilt it over a certain number of degrees and a correction takes place.

[Clint]

That’s what I thought. But the copter is level and unarmed. When I give it power, via USB or battery, the blue and green come on. Then the green just flashes after a few seconds. Where as on the standalone board it turns off.

[Jay.Ing]

You have exceeded the moron_threshold. Did you copy and paste the CLI code from the setup instructions? Also have you calibrated the board on a level surface?

[Clint]

I surely hope that wasn’t an attempt at calling me a moron. And to answer your questions. Yes I did.

[Terje]

The moron_threshold variable is defined in the Cleanflight CLI.md documentation. The default is 32.

[Jay.Ing]

HA HA, no that’s just the name of the variable. Basically if the angle of the sensor is over the predefined value (32) then the calibration is stopped and you get a warning. Think thats how it works.

[Clint]

Lol gotcha. My bad then, I was half asleep and I’m still learning all the jargon for this obviously. I will redo the calibration and CLI to see if that fixes it.

Hopefully that fixes the issue with the radio vs cleanflight readout too. But we shall see. Thanks again.

[LeoTheHuman]

Most frequent reasons:
1. You held the board upside down (naze board is a top plate with components on the bottom)
2. You flashed original firmware instead of the supplied on the product page (accelerometer is mounted upside down on this board)
3. Your “vbat” feature is turned on and the battery is not connected (this is being worked on by cleanflight guys)

BTW, Googling “moron_threshold” might have saved you a bit of embarrassment and would also give answer quicker as a bonus. (:

[Clint]

Wouldn’t call it embarrassment. And like I said previously, I was half asleep and didn’t think to look it up.

And I didn’t flash the wrong software, or plug in board upside down, which would have been obvious since the copter was assembled. Also I didn’t touch anything concerning the vbat but will check it also.

Is there a guide anywhere for the led “codes,” for lack of a better term?

[Clint]

Just to update, I reflashed and calibrated and still flashing green.

redid the CLI as well

[Clint]

And now after loading the standalone flash and then back to the integrated one, it has now stopped flashing. LOL don’t know what changed but screw it.

Now if only I could figure out why on cleanflight my throttle and roll register on the graph switched?

[Clint]

And now that that issue is resolved…switched some wires around…I figured out that when I set the arm feature that is what causes the green LED to flash. Also I can’t get the board to arm from the radio. Neither with the default option from naze (which I assume was negated with the flash) or with the arm setup via cleanflight. I think I will just take it to a local guy and get him to trouble shoot it.

[biggestRCEfan]

There are some posts around related to min level of throttle. Not at home at the moment, but if in cleanflight the check_min or some parameter with similar name is set above or below your min throttle value (1050 ms or thereabouts), the arm function will not work.

[Clint]

Gotcha. I don’t remember what they are set at now. But I will double check them when I get back home.

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