Dear all,
I am currently working on my OTW type VII internals and started to play around with Arduino
in the process. The first thing to figure out is how to read the receiver signals and PPM stream(???) on Channel 6 coming from the multi-propencoder.1. Reading normal PWM channels is working fine and i have succeeded in controlling a 12v DC motor with a Hbridge that will be used to control my pistons, no issues here.
2. The next normal step was to try to read the Channel 6 where my multi-prop encoder is mapped to the receiver, the reason for doing this is to try to replace the existing Multi-Prop Decoder (F1516) all together and stick to the Arduino for all submarine operations.
I found a very useful tutorial
here on how to read a PPM stream(Its a PPM stream?) and started to write the code(
here). To my surprise its not working, I only see the first pulse(1 out of
with the value of 21976. Its the expected stream coming from receiver Channel 6(Multi-prop 4+4) a PPM?
So channel 6 on the receiver is connected to the digital pin 8 of my Arduino UNO board.
What am I doing wrong?Please also note that when using the decoder in the normal way(no arduino), all the switches and and props are working as expected.
I am using:
1. Robbe Futaba F14 transmitter;
2. Robbe Futaba FP-R118F receiver;
3. Futaba Multiprop 4+4(8039)
4. Arduino UNO R3;
More images
here.
You help is most welcome, i have no other idea how to resolve it.
Thank you. Bogdan