diydrones/ardupilot — pull request #739 by JohnArneBirkeland (2013-12-16 19:47:04+00:00)
Title: Tools/ArduPPM: ArduPPM v2.3.17

Improvements to fail-safe handling to prevent throttle last known->1100->900us glitch when removing power on receiver in PPM SUM mode. ArduPPM will now instead drop any signal on the output when receivers die, since APM is now able to detect missing signals on the PPM input.
Also improved brown-out handling in normal 8 channel PWM receiver mode, to ensure that PPM output will always start with throttle set to 900us after a brown-out reset.

- Disabled fail-safe output when signal is missing in PPM pass-trough (PPMSUM) mode (feature depreciated by addition of missing signal detection in APM code)
- ppm_encoder_init() will now make sure PPM output always starts with fail-safe (900us) value on throttle after a brown-out reset