However, I manged to break it while removing the servo connector pins. The only important soldering pad, the S-BUS one, was broken away from the receiver. This is catastrophic, it might mean that the receiver is ready for the garbage bin.
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Lost soldering pad |
I soldered the signal cable and the power cables. Wrapped it in heat shrink and added a small bead of hot glue to avoid any possible stress on the tiny signal cable. But when I hooked it up to the CC3D there was nothing.
But I decided to go to Google and quickly realized that you can use the PPM as input to the CC3D as well. It's connected to a different input port on the CC3D and it comes with less precision and higher latency than S-BUS but it'll have to do for this build. Some cutting and soldering and configuring of the CC3D and it worked! Turns out you need to use output channel 2 which carries positive PPM.
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CC3D installation with receiver, hidden below |