(19-Aug-2017, 05:03 PM)Adamski321 Wrote: Hmmm. I now have no red LED. Very odd. Not detecting COM either. No red LGBT even with my older cable, could the LED be blown?

Take a step back. One thing at a time.

If you remove any wires you may have soldered to the BOOT pins and just plug the board into your computer, what happens?

(19-Aug-2017, 05:09 PM)unseen Wrote: Take a step back. One thing at a time.

If you remove any wires you may have soldered to the BOOT pins and just plug the board into your computer, what happens?

No red light

(19-Aug-2017, 05:13 PM)Adamski321 Wrote: No red light

(19-Aug-2017, 05:20 PM)Adamski321 Wrote:

Still won't connect. Should 'programming successful' have been a green bar?

I feel so close!!!!!

Can't calibrate accelerometer?

(19-Aug-2017, 05:40 PM)Adamski321 Wrote:

Can't calibrate accelerometer?

The button to 'calibrate accelerometer' is greyed out. Why could this be?

Ah. So it was a bad USB cable all along then.    

Take things slowly here. Understand what you are doing and why you are doing it before you take action. Being methodical and careful pays huge dividends in this hobby.

Good to see you are on the way!

To calibrate your accelerometer, the flight controller must be level and absolutely still during calibration.

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(19-Aug-2017, 05:55 PM)Adamski321 Wrote: The button to 'calibrate accelerometer' is greyed out. Why could this be?

What firmware did you flash? In recent versions of Betaflight, the accelerometer is disabled by default.

(19-Aug-2017, 05:59 PM)unseen Wrote: Ah. So it was a bad USB cable all along then.    

Take things slowly here. Understand what you are doing and why you are doing it before you take action. Being methodical and careful pays huge dividends in this hobby.

Good to see you are on the way!

To calibrate your accelerometer, the flight controller must be level and absolutely still during calibration.

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What firmware did you flash? In recent version of Betaflight, the accelerometer is disabled by default.

Ah ok. I flashed the latest Cleanflight, Betaflight didn't go as well. How can I 'enable' the accelerometer?

You can tell I'm just an excited 17 year old, surely?! ???

(19-Aug-2017, 06:02 PM)Adamski321 Wrote: Ah ok. I flashed the latest Cleanflight, Betaflight didn't go as well. How can I 'enable' the accelerometer?

You can tell I'm just an excited 17 year old, surely?! ???

I can, but it doesn't relieve you from needing to understand what you are doing. A quadcopter is a very dangerous thing once you fit propellers and a flight battery and the spinning propellers have the ability to seriously injure both you and other people who are nearby. Being methodical and understanding things properly will help to save you from what could be horrifying injuries if the quad was to suddenly jump at your face.

I'm being totally serious here, the risks are very real.

As to the accelerometer, it should be enabled. To see why not, go to the CLI in the configurator and type 'get acc'.

This should show you what the CLI variable acc_hardware is set to. It should be set to 0 (zero) which means 'auto detect'.

Anyway, it's time for me to cook some food now, but I'll check back later on.

Good luck!

(19-Aug-2017, 06:20 PM)unseen Wrote: Anyway, it's time for me to cook some food now, but I'll check back later on.

Good luck!

As if my pdb had blown!!!!

Very strange noise. As mentioned, I had this all fine before, with the correct sound as I've seen on videos. Not now though . Could the receiver have blown?

(19-Aug-2017, 07:36 PM)Adamski321 Wrote:

Very strange noise. As mentioned, I had this all fine before, with the correct sound as I've seen on videos. Not now though . Could the receiver have blown?

Update. Lights as before. Good sounds now. Bit of resoldering! Need to check my Cleanflight settings, and calibrate the escs I think

Hope you enjoyed your food. I'm gunna take it slow as you said. Thanks for your help with everything, it was really good of you to help me as a beginner out. I will pass on your knowledge, and please help me spread the word: 'CHECK YOUR USB CABLE OR BUY A GOOD ONE!' Hahaha. Thanks again.
Adam