Introduction

Discovery Buzzers can be be connected directly to a free PWM channel on an RC receiver but when using a "one wire" RCInput (OPLink, PPM, SBus, Spektrum or SRXL) receivers, direct connection might not be possible. This function is useful when you lost your mini Quad in a cornfield (smile)

In this case buzzer can be connected to a free output port, directly to the board.

Here is the HobbyKing® Discovery Buzzer that can be used.


Please note: the previous method using the Custom tab is depreciated. With custom mixer the vehicle is not identified anymore as a multirotor and some functions stop working, like ASWA.

In this page

Configure your Rc transmitter

You need to assign a switch to a output in your receiver, like this Taranis example, SF switch mapped to Output7 (Buz) :

Configure RcInput

After the changes above in your Rc transmitter you need to redo the Rc Transmitter Wizard and detect the new channel as a new Accessory[0 - 3].

Later this accessory can be easily mapped to one board's output. Here is an example where Ch7 is assigned to Accessory1.

Select output

Go to Vehicle tab > Multirotor

  • Set the Accessory1 mapped to Output6, keep Curve1 selected.

  • Save changes !

Configure Output

Last step is output 6 setup, go to Output tab and adjust output limits to 1000µs (Min), 1500µs (Neutral) and 2000µs (Max) and save changes.

Some know issues :

  • Be sure the bank (in this example, bank4 - purple) used for the buzzer output channel uses PWM at 50Hz rate. If channel used for buzzer share a bank already used for motor output at higher rates or Oneshot125, buzzer may not work!!
  • Be sure the regulated output that power board is not too high, at 6v the buzzer (from HK) stop working. 

Test setup

Connect Discovery buzzer to Output 6, connect a flight battery and move switch in your Rc Transmitter.

Now enjoy mini quad racer hunting in cornfield  (smile)