For anyone bored enough to answer:

Possibly a very simple issue. And I'm yet to try a different PDB, though I have one.

Finally got my Futaba  talking to my basic jdrones quad, 850kv motors but with 30A jdrones ESCs. 

Tested all motor/ESC combos with servo tester and all work. All work in ESC cal routine with ESC plug in channel 3 of the receiver. 

Cool enough. But then I set it all up and the front motor wot go. The others run and seem to be changing speed appropriately in hand-testing. But the front motor just sits in the slow, regular beep mode of the ESC. Looked over PDB circuit board and it appears to be all in order. Switched ESC, too. Running AC2 38 from mission planner. 

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Nick, have you tried to swap any esc? or even outputs? You can easily swap few outputs by placing ESC cables to different connectors on PowerPDB. This way you can check if problem moves along the connection.

Thanks, Jani.  I'm not really sure why, but it stopped happening, eventually.  Might be as simple as a bullet connector.  Always connections.  Now I know everything's in place I can take out plugs and things, simplify and reduce.  I finally got it in the air today!  Now I have to learn how to fly...and tune. .. and tweak... and balance. ..  and program.....  It's a wonderful service, Jani.  I couldn't have done it without you, but in the making of the kit I feel I could now make my own frame.  So thanks for the copter school!  I see the Y6 becoming the most popular model, do you have any designs coming for these?  I'm already ordering the bits for a Y6, with the frame from RC-carbon.

 

Anyway, thanks again!  

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