While reading through the Pixhawk 2 documentation on CubePilot website I noticed an interesting statement on page 6 under “PWM Outputs” and page 8 under “Servo Power” and “Servo rail”. It states that in the event that the two main power sources fail, manual control should be obtained with just the servo rail being powered for plane configurations.
My current setup is running Arduplane and an SBus input to the Pixhawk. When both the Power 1 and Power 2 blocks are removed I can see the carrier board is still powered through the servo rail, however I no longer have control of the servos on the Main Out channels as is suggested by the documentation. Has anybody else ever successfully tested this or am I misunderstanding what is being said? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Attached is the link to the Pixhawk2 specifications pdf.